I fly them all!Todd

Or....they could have bought a real 737NG FTD off of me for half that price and it would be made from the real nose section of a 737 with real Boeing seats, throttles, controls,rudder pedals and everything works the same as the real plane.http://forum.avsim.n...hannon-ireland/Fred.

It was for a B747-8 Fred, not the NGX. I was just making the point of how good the PMDG NGX is. I agree, it is amazing what a rip some of these Simulator manufacturers charge for really poor simulator devices. The level D sims aside, the new ones work quite well. But they still seem ridiculously overpriced if you aske me.

its all about certification.... trust me, if NGX was to be a certified training device, it would cost much, much more... (Well for the airlines, if PMDG elected to sell non-certified customer version, I guess it would be around the same price)That said, 100 bucks for 6-9 series is a reasonable price. Granted, it is not a low price, but neither was your computer that cheap, and you still bought it.The key things are two:a) can I afford it? Considering, I might save 20 bucks a month for 5 months, or 10 bucks a month for ten months, or pay it all at once.:( will it give me the satisfaction? Compare the NGX to another thing you bought recently. Would it give you as much per-dollar satisfaction as something else you bought recently? Well, I can compare it to, say, a book for 10 dollars. It was a good book, but I read it in a day and now there it lays. I can fly NGX for years and never be bored.

Ahhhh.... to be a student again ... I remember wondering how I was ever going to come up with the 5 bucks it would take to buy a slide rule for engineering class. Now those were GOOD days. NOT

Ahhhh.... to be a student again ... I remember wondering how I was ever going to come up with the 5 bucks it would take to buy a slide rule for engineering class. Now those were GOOD days. NOT

Been so long, i don't even know how to use a slide rule anymore.

Sorry Sacha, but you really have no clue of what you are talking about. Do you complain about a Ferrari being too expensive? Would you rather they make them for the cost of a VW Beetle so everyone could afford them? I bet you you wouldn't buy one then, it just would not be worth it.I know everyone here has praised the NGX (or all PMDG products for that matter) until they run out of words. But let me share something with you that might put things in perspective. I recently completed training on an IPT (integrated procedures trainer). It is basically a bunch of touch-screen LCDs put together around a pair of FMCs and MCP, shaped to look like a cockpit. The simulator is put together by a reputable flight training company which is used by airlines worldwide. This IPT software is basically a sim but without the visuals.You can takeoff and fly only a very specific profile going from A to B, and doing exactly what is on the script. Half the functions don't work and the other half work only if done in the proper sequence. You spend half the time blue-screening and re-booting the whole thing. And guess what, you can't start where you left off, you must start at the beginning of the script. You get one shot at the thing. There is no going around and diverting to a random airport, there is no deviating from the script.For this, the airline pays a sum in the 5 to 6 figures range, depending on the level of support (read - nonexistent).So PMDG now provides you with what is, for all practical purposes, A VIRTUAL 737NG WITH 99% FUNCTIONALITY AND STABILITY for a measly 100bucks, and you think this is unreasonable? Son, you need to get some perspective. I don't think you understand how lucky you are to have such a great piece of software in your hands. I would pay up to 500USD for the freedom to play with a virtual 737NG, but that is just me.

You can't say I don't know what I'm talking about when I am merely stating an opinion / fact from ONLY my point of view, not anybody else's. Value is RELATIVE, so spending $100 for something I will rarely touch may not be worth it, whereas using it heavily it IS. I certainly DO agree with what you say (and it is all about 'value'), but you missed my primary intent - to see why they chose to release 800/900 first (since I thought 700 was more popular), and that question was answered long time ago.Everything is becoming more expensive these days - games, food, transport, etc....PMDG is no different, except that they are making HUGE imporvements, and nobody else is. Just because the value of the product is good, does not entitle me to like the price.