SO EFB and Taxicam won't be simulated?

Nice try, but all 777s without EFBs have an EFB shaped clipboard there

SO EFB and Taxicam won't be simulated?

Have you actually read the announcement?

 

"On the topic of EFB: To provide the true functionality of an EFB there are a couple of technical hurdles we need to clear. All of these hurdles involve the use of data for airport layouts, charts, navigation data, and tabular aircraft performance data for the entire range of PMDG products. Current list price to license all of that information for our own internal use is about $5,250,000. Ryan won't cough up his credit card- so we are working on alternatives... To explain it differently: An EFB is a tool that contains a TON of data that is used by the flight crew. The concept of displaying charts is really quite minor in terms of what EFBs provide to pilots in the air. While we can extract some of the data from within our own simulation of the 777 and NGX, the vast majority of it needs to be licensed for the specific purpose of having it available in an EFB simulation. This is an extremely expensive endeavor and we are still working to help some of the data providers understand precisely what it is that we are looking to accomplish... The process continues- but eventually we would like to offer a unified EFB that works with each of these three (and some future) PMDG airliner simulations... We'll let you know when we break through the barriers currently in the path..."

 

About the taxi camera, the 777-200LR/F do not have taxi cameras, only the 300/ER has, so there is no point in doing them for the BASE package - Ryan said that they are looking into it, but no promise/confirmation yet.

SO EFB and Taxicam won't be simulated?Have you actually read the announcement?

 

"On the topic of EFB: To provide the true functionality of an EFB there are a couple of technical hurdles we need to clear. All of these hurdles involve the use of data for airport layouts, charts, navigation data, and tabular aircraft performance data for the entire range of PMDG products. Current list price to license all of that information for our own internal use is about $5,250,000. Ryan won't cough up his credit card- so we are working on alternatives... To explain it differently: An EFB is a tool that contains a TON of data that is used by the flight crew. The concept of displaying charts is really quite minor in terms of what EFBs provide to pilots in the air. While we can extract some of the data from within our own simulation of the 777 and NGX, the vast majority of it needs to be licensed for the specific purpose of having it available in an EFB simulation. This is an extremely expensive endeavor and we are still working to help some of the data providers understand precisely what it is that we are looking to accomplish... The process continues- but eventually we would like to offer a unified EFB that works with each of these three (and some future) PMDG airliner simulations... We'll let you know when we break through the barriers currently in the path..."

 

About the taxi camera, the 777-200LR/F do not have taxi cameras, only the 300/ER has, so there is no point in doing them for the BASE package - Ryan said that they are looking into it, but no promise/confirmation yet.

Thanks a lot Chrijs for the clarification. Actually no I didn't read it but now I'm aware of it thanks to you

PMDG are just outstanding and unbeatable can't wait to put my hands on this flying fortress

 

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Another shortest route is British Airways 777-200 from Antigua to St Kitts. Around 10minutes flight time,

 

Alex

Yes sir, I have the privilege of seeing is every Tuesday and Saturday.

Another shortest route is British Airways 777-200 from Antigua to St Kitts. Around 10minutes flight time,

 

Alex

BA also fly the 777 from Bahrain to Doha, that's around 20mins.

I would pay double the price if only there would also be a 2D-Cockpit.

 

Damn!

 

 

Good job PMDG, not joking!

Rob:

   First I would like to say that the shots are amazing. But being a long time PMDG customer that is what I expected. Just one. Will the 777 have the rain effects like the J41?

Thanks,

Ron

I hope the T7 will have a perf. manager like the Ngx because my system struggles a bit with the HD textures.<br /><br /><br />David

Simply amazing! Well worth the wait.  I'm especially happy about the system performance, I was worried that I will need a new PC to run the 777, but if it will be less demanding on my laptop than the NGX, then I have nothing to worry about.  Thank you PMDG for all the time and work you guys are putting into the mighty triple seven!

 

KrisYYZ

Hi guys

Fantastic work!

Love the NGX and am just curious if the 777 will also have a HUD or is that a 737 feature?

 

Cheers

Jay

Hi guys

Fantastic work!

Love the NGX and am just curious if the 777 will also have a HUD or is that a 737 feature?

 

Cheers

Jay

The HUD (HGS) is neither a "specific feature" of the 737 (its just an option, as in other planes like the Embraer 170/190, B787,...) nor is it an option for the 777, at least i have never seen one in a 777 - though, i'm sure it will be an option for the "real" Boeing 777X (which is still in the planning stage).

 

edit: just googled it and FedEx announced some years ago that it will "retrofit" its 777 with HUDs, so they might have some by now, though i haven't seen any pictures of it...

The shortest 777 route flown in a simulator is anything you want.

Looking good!

 

In light of the advantages that DX10 brings to the table, such as significant VAS savings and the associated prevention of OOM errors(clearly a serious issue plaguing many of us FSXers), I hope that PMDG have recognized this and made the 777 DX10 compatible.

 

Along with the performance advantages, DX10 also has cockpit shadowing in the VC in compatible aircraft which adds incredibly to immersion.  So along with having fingers crossed hoping the 777 is DX10 compatible, I would also love to see the NGX get a DX10 update.

 

 

 

I'm not really fond of long haul, so I wasn't planning on getting this plane, but this thread has won me over. Amazing job PMDG. I would just like to ask, as others have already done, what improvements we can expect on the NGX (such as the mentioned small refinements in the auto-flight system). The NGX is basically perfect already, in my opinion, but I am just curious what it will gain from the 777 development.

Thanks for the update, looks great.

 

Denis