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NGX bird strike question

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FSpassengers does a good job at failures - bird strikes / decompression / flame outs / burst tyres (usually from virtual pilots who don't have a clue how to land) etc. Looking at AVHerald, bird strikes and cracked wind shields are very common with at least two or three incidents happening a week. So why not have this as part of your game experience.http://www.avherald.com/Chris Farrell

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FSpassengers does a good job at failures - bird strikes / decompression / flame outs / burst tyres (usually from virtual pilots who don't have a clue how to land) etc. Looking at AVHerald, bird strikes and cracked wind shields are very common with at least two or three incidents happening a week. So why not have this as part of your game experience.http://www.avherald.com/Chris Farrell
Yes, it may happen system-wide two or three times a week; however not all birdstrikes result in cracked windows or any damage for that matter. I flew into a bunch of little starlings final in Campbell River in a 150 years ago...all it was "plunnk-plink-plunk" about as fast as you can say that and nothing really beyond that. No catastrophic engine crazyness...no crazy cracked windshields...no flashing lights-bings-pangs all that stuff. Sure it's a 150...but the majority of the time other reported birdstrikes are similar.Yes, it may happen two-three times a week...but NOT to the same aircraft...and not only on one aircraft type...ie: the 737. Its throughout the system.So really, the statistical reality is that you're rarely going to encounter a bird strike at all in a 737 is very low. Higher than other types perhaps strictly because there's more of them flying at a given time then most types.

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This above birdstrike is probably one of the worse case scenarios. Notice no rapid decompression, no bells, just calm. It happens, you do your procedures, and move on. Land safely and everyone's happy.The idea of PMDG coding some elaborate birdstrike scenario that rarely happens in the first place...and the performance hit involved with modelling some sort of cracked/broken glass/fuselage deformation...let alone the capability that DOESN'T EVEN EXIST IN FSX is just imbecile. They are already going out of their way to provide an accurate failures capability, which gives every user the tools to tailor a scenario to what you want to do. Want a over the top bird-strike? Easy. Set an rapid decompression, followed by a engine failure, followed by some electrical/hydraulic stuff...whatever.I even doubt that the real 737 simulators have a fancy capability to simulate broken glass.People think that failures in aircraft bring some sort of shaking cockpit...flashing lights...smoke..yelling...whatever....that's the BS you see in the movies. It's not what truly happens. You note the failures, recall the procedures, and act. No barking orders at your FO, no calling back to the F/A telling her to let people go crazy...none of that.Ugh, enough of this. Let's just wait for the aircraft to actually be released. All the same people would be whining about performance if PMDG started simulating all sorts of crazy stuff. Fly the bloody plane, and stop focusing on whether the tray table locks turn in the right direction.Ugh too much.

Patrick Houghton

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There's no need for PMDG to do anything as the failure software already exists. Chris Farrell

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HEllo Buddies !
I am PMDG737 NGX Lover  or you can say addicted with :P and i wanna ask about something ...will be really in future an update for our lovely 737NGX  (Wx RADAR , update for radio panel ,RUDDER PEDAL ADJUSTMENT Crank(does not work :( ) ,Manual Gear Extension also not simulated ,Evacuation procedure  also not simulated , and why not to be equiped with EFB like in real life .....I personally apperciate your work and i love you PMDG staff but just make for us an amazing add on ! May be i ask stupid things but lets see  the suggestions of Others ....Happy Landings GUYS ! Waiting your ideas <3
PEACE !

Wx RADAR

Coming in SP2.

 

 

update for radio panel

That's quite a vague, what do you mean by this?

 

 

RUDDER PEDAL ADJUSTMENT Crank(does not work )

Why? There's really no use in doing this. It doesn't add anything functional to the simulation.

 

 

Manual Gear Extension

Not really possible, if I remember correctly, something to do with FSX limitations.

 

 

Evacuation procedure

Why? What would you expect?

 

 

why not to be equiped with EFB

Because the licensing fees would run upwards of thousands of dollars per year per person. (Let that sink in for a while.)

 

 

 

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Nice put downs.....

 

One the original topic, I get bird strikes with suicidal Turkish birds weekly. Got one in the A screen that made a nice mess too. Nothing other than cleaning splats and one occasion where the feathers and remnants needed cleaning off the fan stator one one engine.

 

Generally small birds cause nothing but paperwork.

Mark Harris.

Aged 54. 

P3D,  & DCS mostly. DofReality P6 platform partially customised and waiting for parts. Brunner CLS-E Yoke and Pedals. Winwing HOTAS and Cougar MFDS.

Scan 3XS Laptop i9-9900K 3.6ghz, 64GB DDR4, RTX2080.

B737NG Pilot. Ex Q400, BAe146, ATP and Flying Instructor in the dim and distant past! SEP renewed and back at the coal face flying folk on the much deserved holidays!

Well ! Thank you for reply !
About WX radar ; Do you have any idea when it will be released 
Manual Gear Extension: i know some add ons equiped with it (small aircraft :/)
I don't know if u notice that Radio panel seems  the same for the all pmdg b737ngx 700-800-900..which is in reality there is some difference here i am talking about some reality ;)
and about EFB may be you have right :(

You know just i am looking for a complete and best add on till now PMDG 737 is about 60 % or more near to reality and has also at least 80 % instruments, buttons, knobs ,etc...work perfectly 

Just because you saw a pohotgraph of a 737 with a different pedestal layout or configuration doesn't mean the one on the NGX is not realistic. It's al up to the customer to decide what they want installed and what not. PMDG's version just represent the most common used one I guess.. 60% or more near to reality will probably more indeed, somewhere around 95% I guess. ;)

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