I agree. I much prefer the grey on the 737. I don’t know what Boeing was thinking with the brown on so many planes. That would be such a ■■■■■■ environment to fly for long hours! Gray or even Airbus blue is more pleasing.
Mate, I’m loving the 8x and even 16x is smooth…
Omg that step climb is awesome, before I go to work tomorrow I’ll give it a try 
set autopilot and walk away
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He also would’ve complained about the seat fabrics, and how screw#459224 on bulkhead 25 was misaligned to screw#256771 on bulkhead 12
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Ha! I was genuinely just thinking the same thing. I always felt bad for them, as nobody ever commented on their posts. I always tried to like them though, it was always an entertaining read. @GamingCat2130 where are you?? Hope you’re well.
I’ve not bought it yet as I’m away from my computer for a few days. Good reading though to help me prep.
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You’re kind of mishmashing stuff up here. “INS” is a generic term, as is “IRS.” Both terms can and are used by different manufacturers in different contexts to refer to systems that do basically the same thing: sense movement by measuring acceleration along one or more independent axes against a reference standard. That’s why they all require an alignment procedure. In the real world, without using simulator tricks, alignment can take as little as a couple of minutes to as long as 10-ish minutes, probably more for much older systems.
Anyway, in the 777, the system is called the ADIRU - Air Data Inertial Reference Unit. It uses ring laser gyros and digital accelerometers in lieu of the mechanical gyroscopes and physical, analog accelerometers, but the nature of the systems are all the same: feed data about acceleration magnitudes and directions to a greater system that integrates those changes over time to help determine physical location of the aircraft.
INS/IRS systems tend to be less accurate in polar regions because of the Earth’s own rotation around its axis, plus Earth’s slight wobble. These systems were good enough - and much better/faster/more convenient - than manual celestial navigation, and don’t rely on external signals, which was a plus before GPS, and is also a plus now that GPS jamming is becoming a real concern.
That one switch in the overhead is sort of a master switch for three independent systems in the aircraft.
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don’t dial in new altitude on autoclimb, happens automatically
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So after 4 hours yesterday, I finally was able to attempt the download. But I kept running into authentication issues, I would enter it but nothing happened. I finally gave up in disgust and went to bed.
So today, I read you have to disable your popup blocker. Ok, I went and did that. Its still being blocked by something. So now I have to find out what besides my browser is blocking popups.
Purchasing an addon just should NOT be this hard.
Hello All
Does anybody know how exactly GSX has been integrated? It does not seem to work like e.g. with the Fenix where if you e.g. would set the Beacon GSX would start the pushback etc.
Do we do everything manually with the 777? like Boarding, Refueling et al?
Seems it not even the same as the 737 where when you refusal and board with GSX it will fill in the values in aircraft for payload and fuel. Kinda sad about that. Whilst the 737 isn’t as integrated as the Fenix, those features were still good.
You may have a separate browser security setting that prevents downloads, even if it allows popups. Ran into that myself last night in the current version of Chrome. You should be able to click the little icon to the left of the URL in the address bar or dig around in the Settings section of your browser to see if downloads are allowed from PMDG.com.
It’s up to GSX to release an update to do that. In the 737, GSX does it by using the PMDG SDK to make entries in the right-side CDU to set those figures while you’re busy prepping the aircraft route, etc. on the left.
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Thanks, I’ll try that on my next flight. I appreciate it.
The authentication bit, if you are seeing a circling thing after hitting email me my code just wait. I was about to give upnon this stage, but the circle eventually (maybe a minute or more) came back with an enter your auth code form which then worked. It was weird and would have been fine but for that delay. I almost gave up though. Also tried two browsers, both did the same so their authentication system is slow.
There’s not been a gsx profile released yet as far as I know. And gsx hasnt been updated with support for 777 yet. It sort of semi works, jetway connects, but the baggage and cargo loaders are wrong. Pushback was fine. I didn’t try refuelling with gsx.
I had to create my own GSX profile using the editor. All I did was change the cargo door heights, and the catering doors. Fairly simple, but the software integration is out of my paygrade.
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TLDR: a much better explanation of what I said lol.
I managed a good flight from EGLL tonight over to KJFK on an 8x sim rate. All went smooth & well. Only snag I ran into was trying to disengage 8x I accidentally hit 16x or 32x for a few seconds and found it was hard to recover that from a 2FPS slideshow that ensued. Which made me overshot my tod. Lesson learned!
The 777 did a great job on ILS autoland into KJFK though, I have to say.
I’m finding the 777 to be very like the 737 with a bit of 787 in there too. All quite intuitive if you fly both of them already.
FPS wise again seemed lowish 22FPS in EGLL the same into KJFK (both Ini’s versions).
Ordinarily I’d have expected 28-30 or thereabouts. Both were in clear weather, so in rain who knows where it will be.
Also tried turning refresh rate down in FMC options for pfd and mfd, and turning ai traffic down a bit too, but no FPS were gained. It’s definitely a tad heavier cpu wise for me than the 737 is.
Reventan (sp?) of RW Profiles released a quick fix aircraft profile and posted it on the PMDG forums this morning with Mathijs’ permission. Worked great to fix the cargo loader heights. Pushback worked great for me this afternoon as well.
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I’ll give that profile a go tomorrow thank you.
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