Aerosoft

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Aerosoft
legal form GmbH
founding 1991
Seat Paderborn / Lippstadt Airport
management Winfried Diekmann, Sascha Baumhoer
Number of employees 25th
Branch Software development , hardware and software sales
Website www.aerosoft.com

The Aerosoft GmbH is a hardware and software sales and a software developer for computer games , which specializes in simulators and one of the leading software companies in the field worldwide flight counts. The company was founded in 1991 by Bernward Suermann, Ralf Hartmann and Winfried Diekmann and has been based at Paderborn / Lippstadt Airport since it was founded in 1991 . A few years ago, Bernward Suermann and Ralf Hartmann withdrew from operational business.

history

In the beginning, the main focus was on the development of training and exam preparation software for pilots and the sale of process trainers.

In 1992 the first additional software ( add-on ), the TOP-Scenery 1, was published for the then Microsoft Flight Simulator 4.0. Since the mid-1990s, the field of activity has shifted more and more to the development and sale of add-ons for the Microsoft flight simulator . In addition to the software, Aerosoft developed its first own hardware for flight simulation in 1992.

Since 2002, add-ons for railway simulation have been developed and marketed worldwide. Further traffic simulations were added later.

Aerosoft has 25 permanent employees, 10 trainees and partnerships with independent developers and companies such as PMDG , Flight 1, PILOT's, WILCO, MR Software, 777 Studios, Tocksick Labs, TML Studios, SimTrain.ch, Dovetail, Laminar Research represented with its products in more than 30 countries. Aerosoft software has also been used in professional simulation by various companies since 2008. Aerosoft has been cooperating with the flight simulator developer Laminar Research, USA, since 2011 and is the European exclusive distributor of their X-Plane 10 software. In 2012, Aerosoft took over the Brussels-based company Simware, which specializes in the sale of simulation software and hardware.

The company generates around 50% of its sales abroad. In addition to sales via dealers and distributors, around 120,000 end customers are also looked after via mail order and download via the company's own online shop.

Extract from previous publications

Screenshot of the Airbus X Extended A320 / A321 developed by Aerosoft

Simulators

Important add-ons for X-Plane, Microsoft Flight Simulator and the Train Simulator

  • Airbus A320 / A321
  • Airbus A318 / 319
  • Airbus X Extended
  • CRJ 700/900
  • Twin Otter Extended
  • Robin DR400 X
  • Mega Airport series (such as Mega Airport Frankfurt v2, Mega Airport Munich, ...)
  • X series (such as Berlin Tegel X, Madeira X, ...)
  • Approaching series
  • Scenery Madeira
  • My traffic
  • ATR 72-500 for X-Plane
  • Cologne-Düsseldorf route
  • Berlin-Wittenberg route
  • Through the Moselle valley route

Development partner

The development partners are independent, often small, companies that develop games, mostly simulators. Aerosoft then sells them as a publisher.

MR software

The MR Software GbR was a small company from Berlin. MR represents the name of the founders M arcel Kuhnt and R üdiger sleeve man. MR Software previously developed OMSI 1 & 2. Due to differences between Marcel Kuhnt and Rüdiger Hülsmann, the GbR was dissolved, Marcel Kuhnt developed and since then has been looking after OMSI with his girlfriend. A new project and so to speak the "successor" of OMSI 2 is called "LOTUS Simulator" and a new company with numerous employees called Oriolus-Software was founded.

Z software

Z-Software is a small development studio for computer games in Dortmund. Z-Software developed the Autobahn Police Simulator which was released in August 2015.

TML studios

TML-Studios is a development studio from Erfurt. The computer games they have developed include the series World of Subways Vol. 1-4 & Addons . The bus simulation The Bus is currently under development at TML .

PAD-Labs GmbH

PAD-Labs is a young developer studio for computer games, which, like Aerosoft, is located at Paderborn / Lippstadt Airport . The software they have developed includes add-ons for the TrainSimulator from Dovetail Games, the Microsoft flight simulator and its successor, as well as extensions for XPlane. A Cologne add-on for OMSI 2 and Geneva Airport for Prepar3D by Lockheed Martin is currently under development.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aerosoft-About Us
  2. ↑ Report on Mediabiz - Aerosoft swallows Simware
  3. ↑ TML Studios Forum: We present: The BUS