It has some similarities to the 787 too. The overhead panel has 787 vibes (or is it the other way around?) with more automated things. There are also 787 style checklists available too. If you fly the 737 and have used the (WT 787) too then the 777 will have a very familair feel about it. But also unique too at the same time, & I haven’t read a single manual or watch a step by step how to video yet but have managed to set it up & fly it without much difficulty.
My main difficulty is keeping FPS with it as it is a tad heavier than the 737 for me. Last night I flew with AI traffic turned down and my TLOD at 70 
but that gave me a smoother performance with those settings.
There is not much to learn if you know 737. 777 is more automated with less workload. The biggest difference is flying it by hand because of the bigger size and weight. I did my first successful flight without reading the manual or watching tutorials.
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Yes 100% same as you. I am expecting to be able to fly without much research, purely off of the strength of my knowledge on the 737s. The real fun for me is going deeper, stepping out of the automations, in particular increasing the probability of random failure scenarios. I love being tested with a curve ball and having to really diagnose what is happening at a system level on a plane.
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looks like some update is annouced for today evening so will look at this and check what exactly is fixed very good job!
Hi All
After having successfully flown my 777 from KPAE to ZRH longdistance with 4x timecompression and all went well, I am now facing a strange issue:
I am flying from Amsterdam to Seoul - and when I was around over central asia the plane suddenly started to veer left/right, indicating low airspeed (it was not) and I had to take over manually. Fighting my way back on track I engaged AP again. It then followed course again and slowly climbed (VNAV).
A bit later a similar incident which made it loose altitude and climb again.
I know it might be hard to diagnose - but did anybody experience something like this? I find it strange as my first ferry longdistance flight went well…
What’s your take on this?
I had a weird thing like that but on takeoff. I thought it was something stupid I’d done, but I swear I’d set everything up as usual ahead of time. At about 1k feet after takeoff some alarm went ‘bing’ and I started rapidly losing airspeed. I had to quit as the speed dropped <100kts. I still have no idea what happened. On subsequent flights using same setup/startup procedures I was fine.
It was almost like some failure mode got triggered, but I have failures turned off.
Talking about take off / climb: I was wondering if I missed something - but - I haven’t yet found a way to enter the CI value into FMS. I normally enter this in the A320 or - I think - also in the 737. Do you happen to remember if/where we enter the CI value?
Off the top of my head probably in the PERF INIT page, which is pre-filled out and when you do an INIT REQUEST it pulls data from simbrief in afresh so I’d look there for CI. I don’t think I ever have to enter it manually on the 737 (or 777).
Gotcha! Thanks mate! Checked - and you’re right - it’s in the PERF entered automatically from SB.
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I got a random email from the “pretend” boss forwarded from the maintenance team saying that "six wheel replacements x6 = 32 is 5 too many in the space of three flights and they have attributed it directly to operator error not equipment error and the 7th wheel replacement will see me taking a “extended holiday…!!!”
Oh well, suppose I should not be treating this girl like Colin Mcrae’s Subaru WRX and more like that 18 wheeler semi truck I used to drive…
It was fun while it lasted… 
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Is it time for modders to either split the thread ( like they seem to be doing now) from when the first $77.73 was announced and or change the tile to…
“777-300ER ready to board/ready for departure/has departed” 
For anyone whos come over from the 787 or 737 or even for that matter, come from the A320/A300,310 and have been wondering why clicking app for RNAV approaches hasn’t been working and are not seasoned (Not flown a PMDG aircraft from the fsx days like me…) CO/FO 777 pilots…
This video was like a “Oh…??! So that’s how you do it” moment…
While A330 driver gets up to speed with his amazing videos, this one is a little blast from the past… Gosh… Who remembers those amazing graphics…??
Big heavy airplane + lots of wing area = slow reaction to commanded trajectory changes. If you were ten miles out and well above glide, probably need to just go fully configured, dial back to final approach speed and let the plane slow/drop. Leave AT in to manage the energy while you worry about descent rate and finding the glideslope. If you’re not dropping into the groove by 4-5 miles out, go around, The GA altitude is probably not much above what you’ll need to acquire the g/s smoothly on the next attempt.
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FMC>INIT REF>INDEX>PERF. Should be LSK R2
I wasn’t that far above G/S, but for some reason it wasn’t going to get there and it quickly escaped me. I think you are right, too much energy/speed to bleed off. Will make sure to do landing config earlier on next approach.
Into KJFK two nights ago I was slightly over G/S too, but I think I was slower and 12 miles out so it captured it and descended.
Ironically ATC had been begging me to descend to 3000ft 5 miles or so earlier, but I was letting VNAV do it’s thing, but this isn’t a 737 apparently!
back then, those were the bee’s knees when it came to graphics. FSX was a system melter too!
There’s a quote in the PMDG online manual from a UAL captain who said the 777 will slow down or descend, but it won’t do both at the same time, lol. So with that in mind, when I flew into PHNL yesterday afternoon from SFO, I made sure to extend my downwind to a full 15 miles before turning into final. Came in right at 1 dot under the g/s and captured perfectly. I’m not sure I’d have been low/slow enough if I’d cut it in at 10 miles. It’s probably something those us new to the 777 will just have to get use to anticipating, depending on weights, etc.
I do love the fact that I could carry 315 people and baggage 5-1/2 hours across the ocean and not even fully fill up the wing tanks, lol. I am looking forward to attempting my first real 12+ hour long haul in a couple weeks.
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This makes perfect sense. I’ll keep that in my head ahead of approaches from now on.
It ceratainly pads GSX passenger boarding time too, need to start boarding process much earlier.
The GSX profile you linked to earlier works but passengers board and walk straight into the centre partition instead of heading up the isles. Funny to watch!
I also wonder if we’ll see 300+ GSX seated passengers, at all. If I were Umberto I’d have my hands over my head in a dark room somewhere for promising passengers & with there now being so many airliners to populate!
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I’ve just finished my third flight (KPAE-KLAX, KLAX-EGLL, and EGLL-KMIA). Even on my secondary, relatively weak PC I was able to run auto time compression at 8x. The logic around the time compression is definitely greatly improved over the 737. So far I love the 777 and I’m glad I purchased it.
My only issue so far is that after a game pause (either auto at ToD or a manual pause), there’s the usual MSFS bug with sounds not coming back until cameras are cycled, but even after that the PACKS and cooling fan sounds never come back. Once I land the cockpit is dead silent except for ambient air and engine noise. Thankfully the sounds come back after power cycling the aircraft at the gate.
I actually kind of hope not. Adding that many sim objects + all their polygons and textures will not be kind to my 8GB RTX 3070. I’ll be building a new PC later this year or early next and I’d rather not have to suffer so much until I do.
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