Aerosoft’s Rafi recently sat down with ToLiss founder Thorsten to talk about their upcoming collaboration on the Aerosoft A340-600 Pro for Microsoft Flight Simulator. The interview revealed an impressive depth of technical ambition, with ToLiss aiming to bring their signature high-fidelity Airbus simulation from X-Plane into the MSFS world. You can watch the interview above, but we’ve summarised the key points below.
The A340-600 Pro is being built to simulate between 200–250 system failures across all major aircraft components, including flight controls, hydraulics, air conditioning, and engines. Each failure will have realistic ripple effects throughout the aircraft’s systems, ensuring an unprecedented level of accuracy. Every sidestick movement is processed frame-by-frame, mirroring the real-world Fly-By-Wire logic of the long-haul Airbus.
ToLiss has completely rebuilt the flight and ground model for MSFS, overcoming the simulator’s limitation of only supporting a single aileron per wing. Their custom-built engine, flight, and ground simulation ensures behaviour nearly identical to their X-Plane versions. While development has been done independently for MSFS, Thorsten says the flight characteristics between both platforms are now remarkably similar.
The collaboration between Aerosoft and ToLiss has been ongoing for over two years, with Aerosoft handling the visual and artistic elements, and ToLiss responsible for all the aircraft systems and logic. Features confirmed so far include Hoppie ACARS/CPDLC integration, SimBrief support, and potential Navigraph integration. Advanced flight management options such as offset and secondary flight plans, managed mode behaviour, and a jump-to-next-waypoint system will also feature, allowing users to fast-forward flight progress with realistic adjustments to fuel and time.
An auto-save feature will be implemented, and Thorsten confirmed that much of the work being done for this MSFS project will benefit the X-Plane versions as well.
Described as a “new level of system accuracy for widebody Airbus aircraft,” the Aerosoft A340-600 Pro represents a significant leap forward for both developers. While there’s no confirmed release window yet, Aerosoft says more information will be shared soon — with this interview marking just the first part of an ongoing series.
