If the steel brakes loses effectiveness when overheated, but the carbon doesn't, what is the advantage with the steel?

Price maybe?

If the steel brakes loses effectiveness when overheated, but the carbon doesn't, what is the advantage with the steel?

Steel brakes probably cool down faster when overheated and are cheaper than carbon brakes.

Steel brakes probably cool down faster when overheated and are cheaper than carbon brakes.

Cool, thanks for the info!!Ryan V

The quality of this project is incredible; there's nothing else even close in terms of system depth and eye candy. :(

<br />If the steel brakes loses effectiveness when overheated, but the carbon doesn't, what is the advantage with the steel?<br />

<br /><br /><br />My understanding is steel brakes are significantly cheaper. Carbon brakes have longer life, greater energy abortion and a significant weight advantage.Boeing's Aero magazine had an article on carbon brakes:http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_03_09/article_05_1.html-Bryant Martin

Its looking absolutely amazing, nothing less than that!! It is going to be hard convincing myself to splash out on it with MS Flight on its way. I sure as hell hope they can release the NGX for MS Flight!Cameron M

If the steel brakes loses effectiveness when overheated, but the carbon doesn't, what is the advantage with the steel?

This is wrong question. The question should be why steel brakes are still in widespread use.1. Carbon brake are relatively new.2. Many airlines have their maintenance departments well stocked for steel brakes overhauls/replacements.3. Life cycle cost of steel brakes is still somewhat lower than carbon brakes.

At this point, Microsoft is gonna have to pay PMDG to develop this for MS flight or no one is gonna buy flight as we all are gonna be flying the NGX for a long long time

At this point, Microsoft is gonna have to pay PMDG to develop this for MS flight or no one is gonna buy flight as we all are gonna be flying the NGX for a long long time

So true...lol**********PMDG Team,I don't want to repeat the words of everyone elses' posts, but I feel obligated to show my gratitude. An absolutely unreal job. Truly phenomenal! I have never seen an aircraft look this real. Not even with the exceedingly high gloss McPhat textures. (Yes Ryan, I say this just to get under your skin. mwaahaha )Love you guys! ... Ya know what, I take that back...That's kind of weird and creepy...I just really, really like you guys!Keep it up!Take care,

I am a little curious about the terrain radar. At what flight level does it disengage? I understand it depends on the mountains surrounding the aircraft, but once you clear any obstacles, does it disengage, or does it simply go blank (idle on?) like with a weather radar? It does draw the screen with a sweep similar to the way the weather radar draws, but that's just a function of how the display works, the data comes from a computer and database onboard, not from something actually scanning the terrain.Thanks for the info, and looking forward to "messing up" my first 10-15 flights while I learn how to fly this baby.

First off, I know this sounds nitpicky but can we please try to stop calling the EGPWS "terrain radar"? That isn't what it is - the display loads from an onboard database, similar to how a car GPS unit loads it's maps for instance. The terrain display does update with a "sweep" similar to how a weather radar looks, but that's just the way the display unit works, it's not actually scanning the ground with a beam or anything like that.The altitude you stop seeing things at depends on the mode that the EGPWS is set to (which is a hardware option set during installation on the real life unit) - the mode that everyone's likely going to want to use is called "peaks mode" because it lets you see the prominent terrain features in the area even while up at cruise. Without peaks mode you'll stop seeing terrain as soon as you're clear of any potential conflicts with it (defined as 2000 feet above in the normal mode).The actual rules used in the normal mode (non peaks) are:(This is in FCOM2 Ch. 15)-dotted green: terrain from 2,000 feet below to 500 feet (250 feet with gear down) below the airplane’s current altitude-dotted amber: terrain 500 feet (250 feet with gear down) below to 2,000 feet above the airplane’s current altitude-dotted red: terrain more than 2,000 feet above airplane’s current altitude-dotted magenta: no terrain data available-solid amber: look–ahead terrain caution active-solid red: look–ahead terrain warning active.The density of the dots/blocks also changes to indicate the actual contour of the terrain.The peaks mode option modifies these rules once you're 2000 feet above the highest point in the area so that you instead see "bands" of terrain - it's a fairly complicated algorithm that I can't really write out here, there's a bunch of different rules for what it displays, but it works as an advisory tool and allows you to see the terrain while at cruise essentially. This can be quite useful for instance in the event of a decompression and emergency descent over mountainous terrain...

Wow this is amazing. The attention to detail is amazing. It will be so good to eventually have a descent 737ngx. By the way, will the ngx come with an passenger cabin and if so will it have the sky interior as an option. not really nagging or anything because it is already amazing!!!!!!!!!!! Andrew Cary

Robert, any idea of the price yet?

This won't be announced until release. (same as it's always been with our releases) We have stated that we expect it to be in line with our previous full scale airliner products.

Its looking absolutely amazing, nothing less than that!! It is going to be hard convincing myself to splash out on it with MS Flight on its way. I sure as hell hope they can release the NGX for MS Flight!Cameron M

I would not make any assumptions about MS Flight - there's no available information about compatibility, no release date for it - there's really no info yet on what it actually is even. This airplane is *extremely* customized for the FSX environment and I definitely would not pass on it while hoping for a Flight version - we have no idea if that's even possible nor do we know when it would happen if it did.

This is a must have, it'll be a milestone in realistic flying and I really cant wait to get my hands on it :)

WOW! That looks amazing. Can I sue for injuries sustained falling out my chair looking at those images? :(

Yes why of ourse you can sue. But you can be countersued for being silly because you weren't prepared to be amazed. Did you actually actually expect anything less? HeheJack C