For those interested and may have missed the latest news - Nimbus have shown some preliminary pics of the B707 they have had under development. Still away to go me thinks so maybe before Xmas but they are not saying (fair enough). No mention of whether they plan variants of the 300 such as the military version or a cargo version. It appears they are going for the INS as a nav system to keep it authentic (It will have to be a CIVA). 

A certain buy from me when and when it makes it to the stores,

https://forums.x-plane.org/forums/topic/337365-nimbus-707/

11 hours ago, coastaldriver said:

For those interested and may have missed the latest news - Nimbus have shown some preliminary pics of the B707 they have had under development. Still away to go me thinks so maybe before Xmas but they are not saying (fair enough). No mention of whether they plan variants of the 300 such as the military version or a cargo version. It appears they are going for the INS as a nav system to keep it authentic (It will have to be a CIVA). 

A certain buy from me when and when it makes it to the stores,

https://forums.x-plane.org/forums/topic/337365-nimbus-707/

Lookin’ real good!

if the reviews are good, count me in 😊

Screenshots look great. I definitely hope for some retrofitting of even default XP FMC because INS is a horrible system best left to the museums of aviation and not actual flying nowadays. The idea of having to constantly enter points in-flight beyond the 9 it can "fit" sounds tedious and the workload in a 3-person cockpit is already high for a sim. 

4 hours ago, BostonJeremy77 said:

Screenshots look great. I definitely hope for some retrofitting of even default XP FMC because INS is a horrible system best left to the museums of aviation and not actual flying nowadays. The idea of having to constantly enter points in-flight beyond the 9 it can "fit" sounds tedious and the workload in a 3-person cockpit is already high for a sim. 

If Nimbus is clever, they offer an INS in look only (next to support for Philip's CIVA v2) like on Colimata's Concorde. You get the all the buttons and controls, but beneath it is X-Plane's GPS., so you have support for more than 9 waypoints and auto-forward to the next WP.

Edited October 16, 2025Oct 16 by Bjoern

8 hours ago, BostonJeremy77 said:

Screenshots look great. I definitely hope for some retrofitting of even default XP FMC because INS is a horrible system best left to the museums of aviation and not actual flying nowadays. The idea of having to constantly enter points in-flight beyond the 9 it can "fit" sounds tedious and the workload in a 3-person cockpit is already high for a sim. 

9 waypoints is quite a lot back then, now you got PBN route with dozens of waypoints on a straight line.... technically you can't fly PBN route and SID/STAR with that museum piece anyway...

Well, with free route in many place now, it's actually manageable again....you only need place few waypoints 300~400nm apart.

And you only update waypoints when not busying TO/LD anyway, as long as there is no failure, quite manageable as my experence on 727 and 742, 707 might need more care, let's see when there finally one to play with. 

Just tracking this one via the Developers publicity makes you wonder! The onslaught of - that is not right or that is incorrect and can we have (10 flavours engine or whatever or more), see now why some very promising freeware developers (aka Starving Pilot) threw in the towel with XPlane audience and customers- everybody knows better - think that is what happened with Flyingtak a Japanese freeware developer - he handed up 6 very well done aeroplanes that would not have been done - not perfect but within the limits of his skills and now has not vanished but gone very quiet indeed - everybody was an expert. 

10 hours ago, coastaldriver said:

Just tracking this one via the Developers publicity makes you wonder! The onslaught of - that is not right or that is incorrect and can we have (10 flavours engine or whatever or more), see now why some very promising freeware developers (aka Starving Pilot) threw in the towel with XPlane audience and customers- everybody knows better - think that is what happened with Flyingtak a Japanese freeware developer - he handed up 6 very well done aeroplanes that would not have been done - not perfect but within the limits of his skills and now has not vanished but gone very quiet indeed - everybody was an expert. 

Hey, man, looking gift horses in their mouths is a hobby for many people. 🤣

On 10/17/2025 at 8:33 AM, coastaldriver said:

Just tracking this one via the Developers publicity makes you wonder! The onslaught of - that is not right or that is incorrect and can we have (10 flavours engine or whatever or more), see now why some very promising freeware developers (aka Starving Pilot) threw in the towel with XPlane audience and customers- everybody knows better - think that is what happened with Flyingtak a Japanese freeware developer - he handed up 6 very well done aeroplanes that would not have been done - not perfect but within the limits of his skills and now has not vanished but gone very quiet indeed - everybody was an expert. 

"Does not look right" comments should be ignored if not backed up by detailed descriptions of whatz exactly is wrong or by pictorial evidence.

To avoid variant and equipment requests, it helps if devs make their announcemment as specific as possible and set boundaries for expectation. In the case of a 707, it could be something like:

"We're doing a 707-320B. A -120, -138, variant or other engines than the JT3D will not be an option. We might be offering a -320C as an add-on later on. Cabin and cockpit specification will be to [airline] because we have a flight manual for that, others are not an option. Nav system support will be none (VOR, NDB only), CIVAv2 or default FMS."

I think most superfluous requests and comments can easily be avoided by that.

Edited October 18, 2025Oct 18 by Bjoern