The Reader's Choice Awards PresentedPosted: Sunday, October 16, 2011 - 14:23The Avsim Social was held last night sponsored by PMDG, both new and long-time friends joined Avsim's Staff in a Soiree featuring presentation of the Bravo Zulu & Reader's Choice Awards.

Congratulation : Lifetime Achievement Award: PETER DOWSON Well deserved. Did anyone from PMDG attend ?

I was personally disappointed that PMDG didn't win the Reader's Choice award this year with the NGX, but not really altogether surprised. Unfortunately, PMDG have been somewhat plagued with activation problems, program crashes, errors with some aspects of flight modeling and systems behavior, etc. These types of issues chronically pushed backed the release of hotfixes and the eventual Service Pack, along with the SDK. Mainstream customers who experience ongoing problems with their installations tend to get disaffected by such delays over time and will naturally migrate to competing products if such are available. I certainly understand the complexity of releasing a product with the detail and magnitude of the NGX. It's unrealistic to assume that any undertaking of this nature this will be completely error free at release time; however, I believe PMDG could have perhaps organized beta testing in a better way as to have detected many of the current problems before the initial RTM.

I was personally disappointed that PMDG didn't win the Reader's Choice award this year with the NGX, but not really altogether surprised. Unfortunately, PMDG have been somewhat plagued with activation problems, program crashes, errors with some aspects of flight modeling and systems behavior, etc. These types of issues chronically pushed backed the release of hotfixes and the eventual Service Pack, along with the SDK. Mainstream customers who experience ongoing problems with their installations tend to get disaffected by such delays over time and will naturally migrate to competing products if such are available. I certainly understand the complexity of releasing a product with the detail and magnitude of the NGX. It's unrealistic to assume that any undertaking of this nature this will be completely error free at release time; however, I believe PMDG could have perhaps organized beta testing in a better way as to have detected many of the current problems before the initial RTM.

Maybe next year for their newer 737s or some other plane, spun off from the 737NGX. It's also looks a little suspect, if you "WIN" and event that you sponsor !! Still wondering if any of the PMDG team attened the event ?? .