Here's the story of how one freeware developer managed to copy three different aircraft models and release them as their own. As the community later found out, this was not an isolated incident for SAAD. Over the past few days, the developer’s Facebook group has spiralled from conversation about the aircraft to accusations of theft following a message from another developer outing Aguirre Díaz for using his A321 model without permission. Aguirre Díaz was discovered to be utilizing 3D models from the coveted freeware development group Project Airbus, payware development team Commercial Level Simulations (CLS), and in a surprising twist: X-Plane’s FlightFactor.ĭubbed “SAAD”, the group maintained a family of aircraft including the Airbus A350, A330neo and a forthcoming rendition of the A321neo. Nonetheless, a few days ago, an up and coming freeware developer named Sergio A. It’s not often that a developer on the ESP-platform side of flight simulation is caught using assets created for X-Plane.

FlightFactor, the ever dedicated X-Plane developer, has faced a conundrum over the past few days as we've uncovered that the group’s A350 model had been used in a freely distributed model available for FSX and Prepar3D.

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