Hi,

I just wanted to thank the PMDG developers for another great product. I bought the 737NGX last week, and I'm loving it so far. You've set the bar pretty high for realism and quality. It's the first sim product I've owned where I haven't run into several issues or bugs. For years, I put off learning how to fly virtual jets for years, but your tutorials have helped me learn the process in a way that's easy to understand. If I want to dive into it deeper, I have plenty of information to keep me busy for several more years!

 

Speaking of the tutorials....I write software documentation for a living, so of course I'm always interested in checking out the manuals when I buy new products. The two tutorials for the 737 and the 'type rate course manuals' for the 747 are some of the most well written 'how-to' documents I've read in a long time. Other sim companies may do a great job with software development, but they can't write a single sentence that makes any sense. They throw around acronyms that not everyone may be familiar with. Or, they scatter related information in different places throughout the manual, which makes it impossible to track down a concept. Then when I ask questions on their forums, they answer, "It's all in the manual (sigh)..." I hate that. You've all done a great job of explaining new concepts and procedures.

 

Anyway, keep up the good work. I look forward to your future products!

-Jason Wolfe

I love the tutorials too! Very nicely done!

 

The manuals I do not like, they seem more like reference guides instead of manuals. They almost look like text reformatted from Boeing manuals.

However, I am still going through them, so perhaps I did not get to the right ones/sections yet.

 

Maybe it's just the PDF's, the hard copy manuals look like they have much more information in them!

 

I suppose the good news is that I will have to dig deeper to learn this beast, which is what simming in a commercial airliner is all about in the first place.

I love the tutorials too! Very nicely done!

 

The manuals I do not like, they seem more like reference guides instead of manuals. They almost look like text reformatted from Boeing manuals.

However, I am still going through them, so perhaps I did not get to the right ones/sections yet.

 

Maybe it's just the PDF's, the hard copy manuals look like they have much more information in them!

 

I suppose the good news is that I will have to dig deeper to learn this beast, which is what simming in a commercial airliner is all about in the first place.

 

They are Boeing manuals

 

The introduction and tutorials are not (Tabs wrote them) but the rest of the manuals are from Boeing (besides some PMDG headers etc)

I love the tutorials too! Very nicely done!

 

The manuals I do not like, they seem more like reference guides instead of manuals. They almost look like text reformatted from Boeing manuals.

However, I am still going through them, so perhaps I did not get to the right ones/sections yet.

 

Maybe it's just the PDF's, the hard copy manuals look like they have much more information in them!

 

I suppose the good news is that I will have to dig deeper to learn this beast, which is what simming in a commercial airliner is all about in the first place.

 

Jay is correct they are boeing manuals. Says a lot about the accuracy of the sim that the best documentation is the boeing documentation I feel.