OMG!

Hey Everyone, I'm not one to use silly shorthand "text message" abbreviations, but OMG is the only thing that comes to mind when flying the NGX. I finally sat down yesterday and completed my first full flight after several touch and gos the night before: DL390, ATL-CVG, KATL.SUMMT4.VXV.JAKIE1.KCVG. It was a full passenger load flight. I must say, I was simply astounded. The landing wasn't pretty (float) but I think the passengers would have been none the wiser. There were several occasions where I found myself saying "OMG." First of all, sitting at the gate just at sunset...the lighting is amazing. I was also surprised that with UT2 at KATL I was getting 16-30 FPS depending on how much traffic was in my line of sight. Second, that nice, slow spool up of the engines from idle to start taxiing. I can't describe it any other way except to say that it definitely brought back that sensory feeling when taxiing in the real thing as a passenger. And pushing the throttles to 40% and the slight pause as the engines equalize before hitting "TOGA." The throttle back to CLB-1 gave me a bit of a chill as well. A work of art in sound! The next big moment was the absolutely precise VNAV descent profile. ATC gave me a slightly early descent clearance and when setting that level and hitting the ALT INTV button sent the NGX into a nice smooth 1000FPS descent before settling on the real VNAV path, just as it should. The ANP/RNP bracket took me by surprise and again...OMG. The localizer and then glideslope capture was another moment of OMG. Silky smooth. I almost wanted to let the aircraft do an autoland just to see how well it performs...but I thought I'd better improve my skills before letting the A/P show me up. That's all...I just had to post my impressions. I was amazed at the smoothness of the entire process. I intentionally mucked with the CDU flight plan just to see if I could scramble it's brain. Nothing. Aboslutely flawless. I'm sure the next flight I have planned (CO1431, BOS-CLE) will bring on a totally different set of OMG circumstances. OMG!Adam