An option in the FMC to allow us to hide the Yaw Damper indicator above the ISDF (think thats what its called).Check out this picture. Its a new 738 for Virgin Australia (DJ):http://jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=7117238

It's one of the brand new ng'sInteresting to see that it has fail operational autoland capabilities !!That indicator is practically impossible to see on the real aircraft anyway.It's about time they got rid of it.I have yet to meet a pilot who actually ever used it.Fred.

right on, I think its looks cool without it.Since your a RW Ng pilot I have a question, did PMDG get the size of the Windscreen right? It seems like when I sit in the NGX the windows look huge but when I see RW pic they look very very small, what is your opinion on that?Cheers

right on, I think its looks cool without it.Since your a RW Ng pilot I have a question, did PMDG get the size of the Windscreen right? It seems like when I sit in the NGX the windows look huge but when I see RW pic they look very very small, what is your opinion on that?Cheers

I know what you mean but I think PMDG have got just about everything right with the NGX.Real photos taken at strange angles can be very misleading.The NG cockpit is smaller than most people imagine.I am tall and have a job getting in there !!!...that is why you have that steel handle above the glareshield.Pilots use it to sorta pull themselves into the seat.I am retired now but do spend lots of time in an FTD made from the nose section of a real 737.Fred.

<snip>I am retired now but do spend lots of time in an FTD made from the nose section of a real 737.Fred.

Wouldn't mind seeing a few pix of that thing, Fred.

Wouldn't mind seeing a few pix of that thing, Fred.

I will post some tomorrow !They are on my PC at home.Fred.

Thats cool Frederic, do you miss flying the NG and did you ever scare yourself in her?

Thats cool Frederic, do you miss flying the NG and did you ever scare yourself in her?

I do sometimes miss it but I am still very much involved in the training side of things now.The only incident I had when flying for Ryanair was a bird strike and taxi-ing too fast ( like all Ryanair pilots !! )The control guys at London Stanstead hate it when you taxi too fast !!I am also involved in building 737-800 flight simulators for the aviation education sector. ( mostly Europe )Fred.

What was removed? Can you circle what indicator your talking about? Or screenshot of this indicator?

never mind I looked at it closer, What's it's purpose?

Boeing has been making small changes like that during the production run. They have also changed the side vents that are just above the kitbag, the probe heat is now AUTO and ON (in AUTO it comes on when the engines are started) instead of OFF and ON, the ISFDs are slightly different and there may be one or two other things I am forgetting. And all that is just in the latest batch of 737s we are getting. There have been a lot of changes from the original ones we got from 1999-2002.

Guys,With all due respect, we didn't "forget" anything. The real life NG has literally thousands of possible option configurations - many of them are things specific to a single airline and many are done aftermarket by the airline after the airplane's been received from Boeing. We cannot possibly model all of these - we did what we felt were the big ones. There's something like 80 of them now post-SP1. If an individual airline wants to contract with us to produce a layout that exactly matches theirs, we'll be happy to work out a deal with them, but for the general public, there's just no way we're going to sit here adding every single option config someone finds in a photo. We'll never move on to the 777 if we do that.

Ok cool Tabs understood.

Are there any people that know how to mod the airplane? example add the auto probe heat switch or take away the yaw damper thing a ma bob

The real life NG has literally thousands of possible option configurations - many of them are things specific to a single airline and many are done aftermarket by the airline after the airplane's been received from Boeing. We cannot possibly model all of these - we did what we felt were the big ones. There's something like 80 of them now post-SP1.

+1I fly RW Lear 35s and 36s, and it's the same thing with those....countless numbers of changes that Lear went through in the production run, and amendment kits that "retrofitted" older lears with newer systems. In our fleet of lears, I always have to take a min. to look around the cockpit before we start up to "see what I've got today".