There is an issue with Alt+Tab with FSX, you can use it but not to get back to full screen. You will need to open task manager and then highlight FSX and use "Switch To".Alternatively you can use Alt+Enter to enter windowed mode and it will also bring you back to full screen without the same issue as Alt+Tab has.

Dan,You're completely right. My fault, and than it won't help :( The combination is alt + enter.Eric

So all this time I thought the answer was MORE COWBELL, when in reality it was really MORE UPDATES.

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So all this time I thought the answer was MORE COWBELL, when in reality it was really MORE UPDATES.

Now that's some funny ...........Jack C

What would be very very cool is not only have the load manager send in new pax/cargo weight but turn it into a hybrid type flight planner where you could plug in your departure, routing (from say flightaware), destination, as well as say your average winds aloft forecast that programs like ASX give you and it will give you fuel load needed. And when you hit send to fsx, it loads it.

What would be very very cool is not only have the load manager send in new pax/cargo weight but turn it into a hybrid type flight planner where you could plug in your departure, routing (from say flightaware), destination, as well as say your average winds aloft forecast that programs like ASX give you and it will give you fuel load needed. And when you hit send to fsx, it loads it.

Yes, this would make things very nice indeed.

I challenge you all, to a dance off!

Thanks but can we get less talking more screenshots. Normal, fullsize ones please. People got eyes.

we hope- the most true-to-life simming experience you can have without buying a full motion simulator!

Sorry, I dont see anythig extraordinary here... Captain Sim has been doing this kind of VCs for years now. Good try tho. ;)Thanks

You can't compare captainsim to pmdg, it like comparing apples and oranges, two very different markets.Cheers, Luke Stevens

Thanks but can we get less talking more screenshots. Normal, fullsize ones please. People got eyes. Sorry, I dont see anythig extraordinary here... Captain Sim has been doing this kind of VCs for years now. Good try tho. ;)Thanks

Are you joking?Perhaps you're finding yourself in the wrong forum.

Because it ISN'T A RADAR that anyone else is doing - it's guessing about where there MIGHT be precip based on the location of clouds. This tells you nothing, real weather radar does not work like that in the slightest. The entire thing would essentially be made up. We think our time is better spent implementing things that we actually can model, instead of making stuff up out of thin air. What exactly would this feature add for you, knowing that we're faking the data and that it has absolutely no bearing on your ability to fly? (weather doesn't even really affect the aircraft in the first place in FSX to begin with)If you seriously think we say this because we're somehow incapable of doing it, then I'm not sure what to say considering we've done numerous much more difficult things outside the bounds of the sim that no one else has. We can produce a real-time display of the terrain contours (without using a canned database I might add - it changes based on the mesh you have installed) but you think we can't produce some faked weather radar returns? Cmon.

If you used that logic in commercial flight simulators, no one would have weather radar simulation there either. But they do all the same. No one simulates WXR from weather as such, in commercial flight sims they create weather scenarios and paint WXR returns as appropriate. Nor is the flight simulation really affected by the weather scenarios either, except turbulence will be increased as appropriate, windshear may be triggered and storm effects presented aurally and visually. Pilots under training might be convinced the resulting simulation is "real", but that's another thing entirely. In reality, it's mostly smoke and mirrors.There are a lot of things pointlessly presented in FSX to create a feeling of realism. Control knobs and switches are animated that have no sim functionality, for example. Because the WXR serves no function in the sim does not mean something representative should not be there for completeness. Your competitors do a reasonable job in inferring where the precipitation might be and a representative WXR display is created. It doesn't matter whether it's really there or not, or that there is no effect on the sim dynamics, it adds another layer of immersion. It's one more control panel in the sim which has a function, albeit an entirely artificial one.Thinking of thus far missing features, can I take it from your last paragraph that EGPWS is terrain going to be featured on the 737NGX? By the way, a terrain database to do this is entirely consistent with how the real device works. Personally, I'd much rather have EGPWS than WXR in the NGX.Kevin

Thanks but can we get less talking more screenshots. Normal, fullsize ones please. People got eyes. Sorry, I dont see anythig extraordinary here... Captain Sim has been doing this kind of VCs for years now. Good try tho. ;)Thanks

Captain Sim aircraft are also notorious for running like **** on anything but high end systems. No thank you.

I read from the F1 Super-80 devs that FSX is incapable of modeling the change in AoA caused by aircraft slats. They said that they were completely aesthetic; eye-candy due to the drawback. If we can fly around knowing something as important to an airliner as Slats are all visual and no simulation in the AoA department, I'm not sure we can paint the weather radar with a different brush. That said, Tabs is right as usual: I'm sure we'd all rather have PMDG focus efforts on things that can be realistically modeled instead of a weather radar. :( (As an aside, I am dubious of the F1 S80 Dev's claims that FSX doesn't even model the decrease in AoA caused by slats, but figured it would be an interesting comparison to use here.)

It would be amazing if FSX managed to do that. You won't find that kind of detail in a full flight simulator either. Even they use flap detent positions for aerodynamic calculations, not slat and flap positions separately. It would take very complex aerodynamic modelling to calculate the effect of slats on local AOA, and it isn't really necessary anyway. The AOA used for aerodynamic calculations is the freestream value, unaffected by slat position. What happens instead is that with slats extended lift increases for a given AOA, so at the same airspeed, the required AOA is less.Kevin

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If you used that logic in commercial flight simulators, no one would have weather radar simulation there either. But they do all the same. No one simulates WXR from weather as such, in commercial flight sims they create weather scenarios and paint WXR returns as appropriate.

And as far as I always understood PMDG's explanations that's what you can't do in FS. You don't know exactly where the precipitations are in the sim, so you can't draw anything accordinlgy. While on a commercial flight sim the WX radar draws precipitations where the sim in fact simulates the precipitations.

Just curious, but will the NGX have extras in the airfile for things like Belly landings & ditching? It's nice to have the option to do rather than it just sinking into the water or runway and having FSX just detect a crash. I don't think it's modeled in the queen, have never tested it on the JS41, but I once was able to do a belly landing with the MD-11. I had to of course since FSP often gives no gear as one of the major failures.