Yesterday, a forum post over on the X-Plane official forums sparked us to look into an A380 project being designed as freeware for X-Plane 11. That developer was previously involved with the Cloud Surf Team scandal that we exposed back in February of this year. Because of the association with the previous development team, we were skeptical on the situation and re-posted our original editorial providing context and proof of what was going on.
We were then contacted by the developer who shared this statement with us:
To begin with, I fully understand you being skeptical about this project. However I was hoping that nothing would be made public before we would officially announce it on our (still being built up) Facebook page. As of now we only have our own personal facebook accounts, where we have been posting updates over the last few months. Nothing official. Same goes for the XP11 forum post. That was me on my private account since we don´t have anything official yet.However, I have spent the last 5 months looking for talented people to join me after the disaster of CST. I fully regret my mistake I made, but I moved on and tried to forget what happened. I always wanted to give something to the community and I thought why just stop believing because of a stupid mistake? So I spent months looking for people to join me and so far have found like the most talented people I could think of. I was hoping to do everything right from the beginning on, not like CST. That´s why we internally decided not to post anything official too early to ruin it again.Also to proof people that we are legit this time, Nicholas Isaacs, the head of our modelling department, recorded his work and put them as timelapses on youtube. (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpPqdUILtcpjlK5umTxdYvg)To begin with the search I messaged James (HD Aviator). We had a long and brief talk about what happened and together we moved on and are still trying to get the best we can do, but this time with our own work.We do have a name for our “company” and the facebook page to it. However, “Advanced Dynamics Development Group” is still invisible on facebook since we need to add nessecary information and haven´t finished our logo´s and banners yet.
Furthermore, the original X-Plane thread has been closed by forum admins until more information has been provided.
We’ll keep an eye on how this progresses and of the developer provides any further insight.