I have heard of it a long time ago, yes. Seems it hasn't progressed much since then, pitty. But jarmonik has to set his own priorities.
Back in the days of the first anouncement I thought that it was a seperate aplication that communicates with an MFD just the way I was planning to do. I didn't realise that it's possible for Orbiter to operate two graphic engines at the same time...
Anyways, multi-threadding isn't something I'm familiar with either (and just hearing it runs shivers down my spine...). I'll have to look at the options with Face, who kindly offered to help me along with the connection and got the source code by now.