LNAV/VNAV on the Fenix blows the PMDG 737 away (Prosim). I hope PMDG’s new LNAV/VNAV module will close the gap.
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I wish more people felt the way you do…. 
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I doubt it and we probably won’t know for another year or more when/if it’s ever released. 
Please take your Fenix shilling to the appropriate thread, thanks.
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on model 737 BDSF can you open-close the cargo door? I can’t find the way it seems to be not operative!
Yes it should be in the FMC under fsactions->doors. Make sure you have ground power connected or the APU running.
yes, in that menu it does not appear, 3 doors appear and one that says inop but it is not any of them
Hmm maybe I’m remembering it wrong. But you can definitely open it. It’s somewhere. Not on my PC right now but maybe someone else knows.
You checked all pages in the door menu?
I’ll check again later, right now I’m not sure!
This afternoon, I made two additional flights in the PMDG 737-700. I loaded up in a cool retro (1989) livery for the old Piedmont Airlines. When I was a kid, they serviced short/medium haul routes around the eastern US. I used to take a lot of summer and holiday visits to family out of KTYS (Knoxville, Tennessee) on Piedmont, Mohawk, Delta and United Seven Threes (-100/200 models at the time), 727’s, and DC-9’s. A lot of those routes to or from the New York/Connecticut area would have stopovers at Washington-Dulles, though occasionally we’d get a non-stop.
So the route I flew today was a variation of one of those old routes, but rather than stopping in Knoxville, I flew into my current “home” airport, KBNA at Nashville - KLGA - KIAD - KBNA. As an experiment, I did it as a turn-around route, without stopping the sim, ending and starting a new flight, nothing. After arrival at KIAD, I used the FMC’s FS Actions menu to unload the plane of passengers and cargo, and while that was going on, I generated a flight plan for the Nashville leg in Simbrief and then downloaded that into the FMC. I used the FS Actions menu to call a fuel truck and load up the tanks. Unfortunately, my flight plan briefing didn’t include the number of passengers, only the ZFW of the plane. So rather than “boarding” the passengers and loading cargo via the FS Actions menu, I cheated and set the ZFW in the Payload section instantly instead.
Then I added the Departure and Arrival info into the FMC, verified and cleaned up the route, etc. I then took off and made the second leg of the flight and called it a day. Great afternoon of very satisfying flying.
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I do not know about the priority of ground services, but for all my flights: the cargo loading services come nearly at very end of pre-flight phase, even though I requested very early, its status show always APP HOLD all the time until other services disconnected or finished. It makes my flights almost get delayed for departure, (and of course I get very bad ratings by PACX passengers).
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I have looked everywhere but cannot find out if the 737-700 stock livery from Ops Center are 4K or 8K or neither.
I am very tired of Fenix fanboi …
Fenix work on A320 is only on 3D Model, EFB and make link between ProSim and MSFS cockpit
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Hey, people can like whatever they like. But they should post about it in the correct thread, which is not this one.
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I just flew the same route with Fenix A320 and PMDG 737. The Fenix flew the route flawlessly, respecting altitude/speed constraints and did the ILS at the destination perfectly. The PMDG 737 didn;t unfortunately and busted altitude restrictions, speed was sloppy and it didn’t intercept the tight ILS that the Fennix did flawlessly. I am really disappointed at the LNAV/VNAV performance of the 737 and I can see why PMDG are replacing it.
I have both planes and I love them both. I just want the 737 to have accurate and real world NAV capabilities. Until then I will favor the Fenix 320 for closer to real-world NAV experiences while waiting for PMDG to release the very necessary LNAV/VNAV update.
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Normal. The 737NG has an “autostart” function through the EECs which is not documented by Boeing to be consistent with the Classics. You can put the start lever on just after turning the start switch to GRND, the engine will start normally. Tested IRL… 
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As far as I am aware, the front or back loaders(forgot which one) can only arrive when the fueling truck has left. So maybe you had another service active before you called the loader, preventing them to arrive?
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This is the correct thread. It is not a fanboy thread last time I checked. Where else should I go to know the differences? there are basically 2 places, 1 is this one and the other one is the Fenix thread. I visit both to know the differences and based on the reviews and problems or cool things people find I gain knowledge.
If one person says this or that is better on another plane we can discuss it. Find out if it’s true and make the developers make better products.
Criticism is good, if you don’t like it just present facts to prove otherwise. Turn it into something positive and make people more enthusiastic for the 737.
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The airplane is shorter and some of its systems are different in construction and operation. You would only appreciate the difference if you had any real life connection to either of these two versions.
I need the 800 because I fly the 800 IRL (and the MAX) but if you don’t and you don’t have any special love thing for the 800, you would fly both identically and would not miss not having the 800 or any other variant than the base model.
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The air conditioning system is completely different from the 800 and up. Nothing that would signify a whole different experience to the average simmer.
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