As long as there are nougat croissants and caramel-capuchino next to the gaming laptop in my pre-owned 96 million $ bird everything will be fine, with or without EFB *ggg.
Have a snack while we discuss interesting technical details…
There are very important things this plane has to offer, for example did you notice that this yellowish coloured cardan shaft is really rotating while the flaps are coming out?
Seeing this driveshaft actually turning inside the opening wing is absolute impressive and the attention to detail a good study-level plane needs! (But the texture inside the half-open wings should be enhanced a little bit to match the high quality standards.)
The slats come out hydraulically moved, I am going to check if the slats stay in with both hydraulic systems failed and only the flaps come out, because the flaps seem to clearly be electrically driven:
It immediately flames out, and is windmilling, and when checking the fire protection systems one of the extinguisher bottles is marked as empty and no longer lighting up when pushing the test button.
Sometimes the engine can be restarted by X-bleed without starting the APU or even by windmilling alone when flying faster than I guess 270 knots or so (not sure about the exact restart speed but N2 should be higher than 22%), sometimes the engine is marked as “heavily damaged/destroyed” in the maintenance check section of the FMC, and will not restart until repaired.
A very impressive plane with interesting simulated systems and keen attention to technical detail indeed.
I cannot say much about the flying procedures because I have only learned to fly the Fenix Airbus since June and I am new to all Boeing procedures and Boeing FMC programming… but now the PMDG 737 reaches the adequate level of visual quality and system fidelity to really catch my interest, and I am sure PMDG will enhance the visuals and polygon count even more with oncoming patches.
This bird will be a marvelous plane when it´s finished.
I am starting to appreciate your eye for the details @GamingCat2130 and at first I did find some your posts regarding the details mildly annoying, but I have come to appreciate your posts more and also the work you put up on Flightsim.to. I do admire your strive for graphical perfection
Really struggling with this. I’m using the 737-600
I’m get a drop down to about 8-9 fps in exterior view.
this has only happened sine the recent pmdg update as I’ve never had any issues with the 737 before.
At first I thought it was the liveries installed but it’s not.
I’ve reverted to using the default 737 pmdg livery to test and it’s the same in dx12 and dx11
If you use the drone view and move away slightly then the fps goes back up. Only have this issue with the pmdg 737
any ideas
Assume you mean the digital version? If so, there are two buttons on the left hand side that control brightness. Lower one reduces brightness. Have to click them a fair amount before seeing a change but they work.
Now if we could only find a way to turn down the brightness of the clocks…
No matter how many cockpit pictures of the 737 I have seen and no matter how old the 737 was, in none of these pictures that silver TOGA sticker looked like crumpled tinfoil… That´s why I absolutely HAD to fix this (but I will make the newer NG throttle lever optional for the rugged-used-looked fans among you.)
And the Data Selector switch texture is finally fixed, I did this already a week ago but was too lazy to upload…
Taking off in this one is a little bit different. Rotating is not possible because at the lenght of this airplane that´s why it is accelerating until the wings generate enough lift to simple have her lift off without rotating the nose…
Well joke aside after the -900 comes the MAX -10, is PMDG probably planning to make the -900 and the MAX -10 as next releases?
Was a documented bug on the 800 and listed as fixed for this build. If there is a new issue with the 600 I am sure it will be reported and fixed for the next build. Have you tried rolling back to previous build? Case in point I always back up my installs before updating just in case the NEW update contains bigger issues. Newer is not always better in 2022. Just saying =)
Don´t worry everything in my cockpit overhaul will be fully optional (except the bugfixes of course like the gravity gear extension with the complete glitched textures, or that Data Selector switch with the wrong texture on it etc).
On the thrust lever I was just ironing that strange crumpled-tinfoil look of the take off go around sticker, but like I said every cockpit area will be optional (aaaaand I made the FMC computer even more dirty and used, it´s not the goal to make the cockpit completely factory new.)
But maybe on the BBJ version a brandnew cockpit would look realistic and immersive, while the freighters could be even more dirty… hm why not! The more variety this cool 737 fleet has in the flight decks and interiors the better.
Does anyone else have the purposing up/down with the Autopilot engaged after the latest update. I see on the PMDG forum they know its a bug but I couldn’t find any additional information on it.
It bobs for me too after latest updates. I dont think there is any additional information about it other than in this thread and on their forum. But one user over there keeps saying it is known by pdmg and will be fixed, so all we can do is wait I guess.
A few times, I’ve noticed an “Air Conditioning” warning on the Master Caution Panel (co-pilots). Not sure what the issue is? Packs are on, being fed by the engines and cabin temps are reasonsable. Any ideas?
Also, last flight, I found myself low on fuel. As I was landing, noticed HYD warnings and on the overhead, both hydraulic overheat lights were illuminated. Any idea what caused those warnings? Are those pumps cooled by fuel?
I know many people are going to say “but no that cockpit is only beautyful when it looks like a pigsty with dirt and rust everywhere!” - don´t worry an extra dirty cockpit version that hasn´t been mucked out for at least a week will be made too.
This extra clean cockpit version is especially for the BBJ biz jet luxury version.
The air conditioning master warning sometimes come on when descending or climbing too fast.
There is always one hydraulic failure active when loading the 737 for the first time, you must disable this hydraulic failure, make all maintenance, and save the new and fresh overhauled 737 as new panel standard default state
This solves the hydraulic leak.
Have you checked the fluid status, the pumps overheat when too much hydraulics fluid get lost inflight.
I think that they planned to release the MAX somewhen during the 777 releases. The 737-900 and the MAX -10 won’t come together.
The next interesting question would be, if the MAX -10 will be released at all? At this moment it’s not even clear if Boeing can certify it. So who knows if there will ever be a MAX -10 in service in reality (same for the MAX -7).
