I wish there was a way to do pushback accurately. By this, I mean that at present with the PMDG 747-400 we can choose the distance to have the aircraft be pushed back and the angle at which it will be pushed back to. However, I rarely manage to guess the correct distance from the gate to the taxi line where the pushback will end at. Is this something PMDG can address in the NGX, or something that can be looked at for future products?

GSX will do just that. It will actually read the AFCAD and push you back and align you perfectly with the centerline of the taxiway, just like the ground crew does IRL. Of course it will add many other features too. Best of all, unlike AES, it will work on ALL airports! Freeware, payware, default, what-have-you.http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=4137

Thanks for posting the link, Ethan. Looks great in the video and reading the posts made by the developers in FSDT forum explaining the features and how they will work made me see that I definetely need GSX. It will be top priority for me once it's released.

Just to clear the things up about the cabin PA:To say it is unrealistic is both right and wrong.Wrong - because the pilots can listen to PA's made in the PAX cabin by the flight attendants. To do that they use the flight deck audio panel providing separate volume control for that (nicely simulated by FS2CREW). Usually they keep an ear to what is going on behind to follow up with the cattle at the back. And even with the packs and the whole background noise you can still hear the PA in the cabin even behind the closed flight deck door - I personally experienced it many times on B777 and A330/A340 flight decks. I presume on B737 being even smaller the pilots should be able to hear even better.Right - the pilots do switch off the audio for the cabin PA's. Or they switch off their ears for non important sounds during the critical phases of the flight anyway.P.S. FS2CREW will take care of this particulars anyway.

Yeah we dont listen to the PA much to hear what the FAs are saying. The only time is when thy start doig their cabin safety demo. That signals us they are ready to push and get going. Other than that we dont pay attention to it. They know what their job is. We dont have to micro manage them. As for hearing them with the door closed? Good luck. Not in the 37 anyway.JackColwill

Just to clear the things up about the cabin PA:To say it is unrealistic is both right and wrong.P.S. FS2CREW will take care of this particulars anyway.

Martin-The perspective is a bit different when you consider it from a work environment angle. In all my time flying I have NEVER bothered to listen in to the cabin channel. There is absolutely nothing being said back there that is of importance to me. The important tasks are in front of me, not behind.The summation on size of airplane isn't relevant either. The NG cockpit is a very noisy place, especially if you get the packs and recircs going (which you almost always will...). Hearing some muted mumbling vibration from the cabin PA during quiet moments is quite a bit different than the full-on cabin announcements that seem to be hip lately.As I said: Not something we are interested in modeling.Also- please- no marketing on behalf of the product you keep mentioning over and over, thanks.

Awesome update, appreciate all the hard work your doing PMDG and the Tech Team! Can't wait for this plane....

Thanks for the update.

Hello Robert and PMDG team! Thank you very much for your update! I´ve been watching this forum for months now and I am absolutely convinced, that your decision to postpone the release date when you thought it was necessary was absolutely correct. Not a single product I bought from PMDG in the past has been disappointing. The opposite is true. Every single aircraft released by PMDG made me extremely happy and I have to say that your great products are one of the main reasons why I still love flightsimming. You and companies like ORBX lift our hobby to a new level with every release. Thank you very much.I understand how desperate some of your fans are and how anxious everyone is to finally hop into the new 737 NGX. We all tend to behave like little children when we know that we´re about to receive a wonderful gift and someone keeps pulling it away ;-) Keep up the great work and take all the time you need! I will wait no matter how long it´s going to take (wow, I´m a a really excited user)!Greetings from Germany!Ingo Kerber

Great update Robert. I am actually in your neighborhood, doing some gambling in Reno Nevada. Like all the other boys i am looking forward to the release of your 737 NG on FSX.However I am still learning advanced procedures on the MD 11 which is a great education in flight.Had a interesting landing at KSFO 28R yesterday when the pilots tried for a short approach from Oakland direction. (Asiaiana airlines) in brief to high and too fast with airbrakes extending as well as 35 degree flaps.....Go Around was the result ...to my enjoyment.How often does go around occur on a short final ...any idea as a commercial pilot?cheers steveAuckland New Zealand

No (Honeywell/Smiths actually makes the FMC), but it wouldn't be of much use most likely anyway - that stuff is very likely written in pure machine code for maximum speed/efficiency on the actual processors that run the FMCs, the symbol generators on the PFD and ND etc. What we're doing uses very similar algorithmic techniques to how the real thing works though - it's extremely complicated math. Nothing else comes anywhere close to the level of detail we've got here - example: anyone know what a BYPASS prompt above a waypoint on the LEGS page means in terms of what's actually happening to the flight path? I've seen no other LNAV model that has this.Btw in case anyone's wondering - two absolutely crazy STARs and approaches I've been using to test with are the TNP.SEAVU2 STAR transitioning onto the ILS 25L at Los Angeles KLAX and the LLZ/DME EAST with the visual to Runway 08 at Innsbruck LOWI. Both of these will likely make appearances at some point in the tutorial flights I'm writing for the NGX - they're excellent examples of just how superb the FMC algorithms are. The KLAX STAR has a huge number of restrictions of every type in very short succession - hard altitudes, block altitudes, soft at or above or at or below constraints, all of them. If the FMC doesn't accurately predict where you should slow down to be able to make the restrictions, you end up busting them and having a nice chat with the FAA afterwards - the NGX saves you from that particular embarrassment. The LOWI approach is very steep as well (again speed control and getting configured early are absolutely critical) and makes excellent use of the EGPWS terrain display for situational awareness in the mountain valley. The HGS is also very useful for aligning yourself visually for 08 after making the 180 degree turn at the end of the valley.

Ryan,If it's at all possible, could you please include a worked example for the Take Off Performance including Assumed Temp Calculation for at least one of the Tutorials, or does this come anyway with other Documentation.I have the Manuals but to make use of all the Data for Take Off Calculations is a bit daunting.I think you've picked two excellent Airport Approaches!Especially the LOWI RWY 08 LLZ App.Great chance to use the VSD seeing the terrain profile & step down Waypoint Altitudes.SEAVU Star also a good one.Tried several times in my existing FS9 PMDG 737, ...won't do it in VNAV, trips out for one reason or another,& so have to revert to V/S Mode.Regards,Stewart Thompson

See, this is the reason I kept holding off reinstalling the iFly 737NG with my new FSX installation. Not because I dislike the iFly 737NG, but because I want a FSX installation that is as clean as possible, without "duplicate aircraft types". I can wait those few more weeks - I'll just fly a different plane while waiting.

This may be considered in a future update, but the initial release will not have a "clean" cockpit. This is exactly how the real 737-800 that was photo surveyed looked - we actually really like it, the wear and tear gives the product a lot of character that we think is missing from the absolutely immaculate sterile VCs that you see elsewhere, where it almost looks like a CGI rendering instead of a real object. Doing clean textures would also be a ton of extra work - we'd have to survey a clean airplane and then all the photos would have to be turned into textures - that process took many months with the worn textures. I think everyone would probably rather we spend that time on more meaningful enhancements to the NGX or on development of the 777.

Hi Ryan,In front of the captains and FO chair there are two very "worn out" places. I was just wondering. Is that the spot to place you left and right foot, and start cruising? Eric

I wish there was a way to do pushback accurately. By this, I mean that at present with the PMDG 747-400 we can choose the distance to have the aircraft be pushed back and the angle at which it will be pushed back to. However, I rarely manage to guess the correct distance from the gate to the taxi line where the pushback will end at. Is this something PMDG can address in the NGX, or something that can be looked at for future products?

Hi,You can use AES (from aerosoft) It does all the work for you. And give a rather realistic push back ( even driving the plane far back to a place where it can start)Eric

Hi Rick,RSR and others have said the NGX will compare in performance with the MD which is a much more efficient aircraft FPS-wise than The Queen so you should be fine.(Actually the 744X is a bit of dog FPS-wise imho).

That's good news. Nice to enjoy all that 'Candy' without sacrifice.Regards, Edit. Missed TABS post #104 but still sounds promising.

We haven't purchased the NGX, therefore, they have absolutely no responsibility towards people regarding the NGX. If they had done preorders, then yeah, they would have an issue, but they don't.

You are absolutely correct. What PMDG has done up until now is provide "forward looking statements" regarding the NGX. Forward looking statements are covered under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 which provides a "safe harbor" for certain forward-looking statements. All PMDG has to do is use words like they "plan", "hope", "expect" when referencing the NGX and that is enough to absolve them even if tomorrow they decided that they won't release anything at all. If they said "we EXPECT to release the NGX in one hour" but they don't - too bad.As you correctly stated, not ONE person on this forum is an NGX customer. Having purchased a previous PMDG product doesn't obligate PMDG to sell you anything else as long as they have delivered on the previous product. If you have a problem with the length of development or the communication style of PMDG that is one thing...but don't confuse this with being a "customer" of a product that you haven't purchased or is yet to exist in the market.

Hmmm... Nice to see a company that show blatent passion and pride in their products.