I have enjoyed your 737 series and 747 series planes for the past few years and I have always was amazed by the documentation that cam with it. What did you do to get access to suce high quality information related to these airplanes. As a student pilot I know all about security protocols that the airlines have concerning the manuals for there planes. How did you guys pull off such a feat of documentation and design.Keep up the good work.If any of you had access too the real thing then I would be very happy to see how hard you worked to make the documentation as close to real as well.Denis DavisStudent Pilot

As a student pilot I know all about security protocols that the airlines have concerning the manuals for there planes.

What security? Have you tried ebay or a google search? You can get originals cheaply and easily - for personal use! I would guess the hard part of doing the manuals is getting the required permissions from the copyright holders. Demonstrated by PMDG not being able to publish fuel calculation tables for the MD-11.

If you look hard enough you can get the real FCOM's for most aircraft, including the MD11.RegardsRob

We have a lot of real world pilots, engineers, etc on our tech and beta teams. Add to this the fact that the person responsible for programming a lot of the really complicated mathematical systems like the autopilot, FMS, engine systems and so on does that for real life aircraft too. We have no shortage of information here. :(

Plus - Robert actually has a lot of time flying the J41, and I believe he is type-rated for 47. Which, you know - counts for something...