YESS!!! Wonderful.
And of course I am happy with the 737 and the Fenix every day begins with worshipping them. Someone in a Discord channel even thought I was trying to start a Fenix cult.
And to be honest I had given up hope on that 737 because I thought these visual glitches will never get fixed but PMDG has finally done it. AWESOME!
This is a huge step closer to purest perfection.
To celebrate the new and enhanced PMDG737 my cockpit overhaul also got a few nice little updates today
Especially in the overhead panel (font position, font sizes), and the data selector panel and other details…
By the way I have a question for the real 737 pilots - is the turbine condition knob set to “continuous igniting” during strong rain?
What flight or weather conditions are necessary to use the continuous ignition setting?
Not all of the changes are real visual bugs, just enhancements based on real photos of 737 panels trying to make the 737 ultrarealistic. And that fire extinguisher was just outright ugly and really had to be upgraded to a nicer texture.
But of course there are some nasty glitches, here are a few screenshots:
It feels so good removing all these nasties from a cockpit, it feels like having some big nasty scratch all over the center console plus one of the fins of the heater vent vent broken… And finally getting a brand new spare part on eBay, and finding out in some car forum that the whole middle part is only mounted with four simple Philips screws and that it can be replaced in less than five minutes…
That feeling describes it best I think… (especially afterwards, when the magnum opus is finished).
Oh and I wanted a nice-looking throttle with almost no wear:
This nice new throttle can be added optional in the texture package.
And thank you very much for the rain story, was that the Glimli glider? I think I have seen this accident on one of these “Mayday” airplane crash investigation episodes. Continuous ignition seem to not help when the turbine is getting destroyed by ostrich egg sized hailstones inside a thunderstorm supercell.
-Take off and landing
-Whenever Engine Anti-Ice is being used to prevent problems with ice ingestion (Wing anti-ice doesn’t require it but if you’re using it chances are you’re also on engine anti-ice anyway)
-Moderate to heavy rain, hail or sleet
-Emergency Descent
-As commanded by QRH Checklists like the ones related to engine in flight starts (to regain parameter indication on the dead engine), Ice crystal icing, etc.
Some procedures use the FLT position instead of CONT (Windmilling inflight start, loss of thrust on both engines, Volcanic Ash QRH checklist and engine problems in icing conditions like "In flight icing removal procedure, High Engine Vibration QRH checklist when associated with icing formation, etc).
The difference between them is that in CONT the selected igniters (L or R) will operate in flight when the associated engine start lever is in the idle position but only if N2 is below idle.
In the FLT position BOTH igniters will operate in-flight simultaneously when the engine start lever is in idle no matter the N2 value.
Simple question, I just bought the PMDG 737. I know the planes comes with a certain standard option package. But if you want to change the equiment settings, and then save them. How do I do that?
What I would like, is to set a certain equipment settings for a plane, and then that it is already there directly in the cold and dark state, when I load the plane. Is there a config file somewhere per plane?
So assuming you want to like add the HUD or shades to a plane that doesn’t have it:
Look at your FMC then navigate:
Menu>
PMDG Settings (Right Soft Key 5 iirc)>
Equipment>
Edit settings as desired.
Settings are per plane per livery. So if you load the United Rhapsody Blue Livery and set your equipment options, they won’t persist to the Fedex Freighter (for example)
Do the “skins” out there also provide correct cockpit options? If not, is there any resource out there that provides info on what airlines have spec’d out for their 737’s? Note in my case I only care about US airlines.
There is a livery artist who posts on Flightsim dot to who has done a slew of SWA and makes them available as a big multi-livery zip file. Inside he’s got a PDF with the tail numbers and options detailed as to which planes have which options enabled, as close to real-world as you’re likely to find, unless you work in Southwest fleet management and have access to their database.
I don’t know if he’s done similar packs for other carriers or not, but his Southwest stuff is excellent.
afaik yes the equipment in a given livery in the pmdg ops center is modeled after their real world counterparts (sans the “fictional” liveries). So if the plane has a HUD and the new style cutoff switch in the real one, it’s likely correct in-sim.
When changing the Cost Index in the FMC, does that only affect the cruise speed? Or are other variables changed (i.e. descent speed)?
When entering the Descent Winds (i.e. importing the WX file from Simbrief), what does that actually do? Is it for fuel economy purposes like the Cost Index, or is it used to more precisely calculate ToD and VNAV paths?
every day begins with worshipping them. Someone in a Discord channel even thought I was trying to start a Fenix cult.
