So that is a double loss for the customers.
Or they pay twice just to cover a six week delay and leave the -700 alone after the -800 ( X amount spent for nothing ).
Or after a long wait they are “forced” to wait even longer … just to satisfy the money hunger of a company ( hence it would be a bestseller ANYWAY )
Not everybody has a budget to spend all the extra money to cover the 6 weeks … meaning the people with a small budget would be “punished” for that.
Try out Pilot2ATC I use it often, works across XP, MSFS etc.
http://p2atc.com/
Works really well, give’s good vectors to the runway or assigns STARS or you can randomise it or force it, very flexible, and no you dont have to talk to it, you can also press buttons 
Is there a magic trick to getting the Amazon polly voices to work though? I’ve followed the various forums and installed them etc but they don’t ever seem to work in pilot2atc for me at least… thanks!
It should. The P3D version has a performance calculator and checklist on it.
There are a lot of vids in youtube that show you how to fly the 737. All with PMDG version for Prepar3d, but I bet this videos are valid for MSFS’ 737 version. You can begin to learn right now if you want.
While we wait, what’s so cool about the 737?
Besides PMDG, why the hype?
you are always so negative, you dont need to buy it at all.
Well, for one thing we’ll finally have a high quality Boeing aircraft in the sim which is very cool. It’s also a plane in common usage all around the world so you can recreate actual flights with it. For example the -800 is the backbone of the local carriers, excluding SAA which operates Airbus. Besides that it’s going to be great to have variety in terms of good airliners.
Try Pilot2ATC. Windows speech recognition can be maddening at times, but that’s not its fault and it’s a very well done program.
It’s an iconic aircraft that been in continuous serial production since 1967 and will likely continue for at least another decade or two, which is pretty cool; it’s a Boeing, which many of us prefer in terms of the two main schools of airliner flight control systems design; and PMDG’s rendition of this plane is clearly going to be top-notch in terms of quality and accuracy.
That’s enough.
It will be the first true study level airliner on MSFS, with 95% of sistems simulated, better fisics, etc.etc. For that is the hype.
Hi all, real world 737 pilot here. I’ve had MSFS 2020 since it came out, but initially disappointed with the fidelity of the stock aircraft, and thought the PMDG 737 would be released soon afterwards. Once I realised it was going to be a while I went back to DCS but now I’m warming myself up back in MSFS in anticipation, equipped with TM TCA Boeing hardware. In the meantime I’ve been warming myself up on the 747-800 and even with the autopilot mod in is proving to be very unpredictable and frustrating! Here’s hoping PMDG deliver a fully sweet & tested product. I’m sure they will!
If you don’t mind using the competition, get the FBW A320 NEO freeware.
It is a very good addon, somewhat near PMDG quality already.
Normally it will fail the first few times after you connect.
Something wrong with the Amazon Polly itself.
What I do is to open the Amazon Polly app before P2ATC and just use the voices I have configured in P2ATC.
By the way, if it doesn’t work directly with the Amazon Polly app, there is something wrong with your install…
Would you be able to expand on any important differences? I didn’t fly airliners in previous Sims so only really have experience of the fbw 320 and the heavy division 787.
Oh man - this is a can of worms that I’m not well-qualified to explain. I’ve been sim-flying Boeings on and off in different sims for decades and the few times I’ve tried an Airbus it just felt “wrong” - different terminologies, different control procedures, different flight management controls, different feel to the flight models … The aircraft just come from two very different “design languages” and paradigms and it’s not easy (for me) to go back and forth between them.
Plus there’s a personal reason for me to want a really good Boeing plane. My first engineering job out of college was for Boeing, albeit in the Missiles & Space Division, not Commercial Airplanes.
Thanks so much got it working now!
By the way, keep an eye open to how many characters you use in the Amazon dashboard.
I believe you have 4 million free a month in the first year and they will charge if you go over that.
All the charging information is in there as well.
Thanks!
You can see that their isnt a EFB in the trailer. Why?
If you look closely when the video goes through the flightdeck customization, you’ll see a “EFB = OFF/ON” switch that is set to off.
So, not ready to be shown yet I assume.