It has been more than 6 months since SYD was announced as the next airport. Furthermore I think I recall reading that the devs intent was to release a new airport each month. But …….
May we have a little bit of an update on the development of SYD please? I hope the focus is not solely on updated aircraft.
Thanks Flyboys!
Read this, it won’t be out until at least 2.5.0
Good things take time.
That was incorrect, I think they intend to have 3 new airports per year instead of 12.
I am also a bit confused with the progress of SYD honestly but let’s just wait…
Even 3 new airports each year would be welcome. The current rate significantly slower.
One airport per month will never be possible.
In terms of time, it would definitely be time for SYD now.
I think there was just too much going on this year (new taxiway system). Who knows what else is being worked on in the background.
I expect it to be later in July or August.
I expect the IAD rework as a “new” airport by the end of the year. I don’t think the rework requires as much time and energy as a completely new airport, but definitely more than the rework of BRI, for example.
Patience.
A new UI was also announced together with SYD. I can even imagine that it will be a new 3.0 version.
We don’t know for certain, that was just an informed guess
Not significantly, we had LHR this year iirc and SYD too, and we know 5 airports are also indev.
The modelling is not the hard part of a new airport, and they don’t need to change the taxi logic. So I bet iAd will not take that long
No… he said it…
Here come the flashbacks…
Excuse me.
I started a thread in the hope that the devs or a mod such as Andy (@carlsberg72) might provide an update on SYD. Instead there are opinions from non-devs and non-mods and the thread has been hijacked to write about IAD.
Sadly that’s typical on this forum.
Be sure, the devs read everything. If they have something different to say than the “non-devs”, they would do it 
I don’t know what kind of answer you were expecting.
Not that one.
I don’t know why you came back being rude to everyone who answered you. Be nice and listen to the community, there not mods or Devs but they are better than nothing. Keep your cool and enjoy the game we all love and play 
firstly, let’s cut the snarkiness out of the posts, otherwise people will be heading to the time out tank.
As for the update, while the modeling deal the devs made helps because they don’t have to build that, the rest of the work needed to release an airport remains the same, especially with reviewing new pathways for aircraft etc. it does take time, so while everyone thinks that airports can just magically drop, they can’t, not only does it take a lot of time,but then the beta testing has to occur. It’s a small team, and as you have seen they are also working on updating aircraft and the like.
Those of us who have been here a long time, know patience is needed, I can tell you unless they actually want to, Devs are not going to give an indication on the progress of any part of the game. Not to me, nor anyone and honestly I don’t blame them. The leaks and progress posts that you see, are that conversation.
What I can say right now, is that there is a 2.3.4 beta test version out there, but before everyone gets excited about that, It’s not a big update with a ton of stuff updating or changing.
So as for SYD, we are all going to have to wait until the devs are ready. I don’t even want to speculate as to a date, because people tend to take that as golden when it’s really not, and we have people circulating false info, which i am really trying to avoid being the source of that.
Just curious…is the 2.3.4 Beta version you said under testing the one with the smoke feature (for engines) which was teased earlier on IG?
Or is it something apart from that?
[I Dont expect to know what it really is, just interested if smoke feature is included or not]
Very many thanks Andy. Just the informed answer that I asked for, not the litter that was previously posted.
Wasnt lhr last year?
Not exactly, although the video was released late, it was actually released on 18th December 2023.
Here is proof 2.2.0 Release notes
