Well, PMDG as in "Precision", is really worth the designation.

It costed me **only** $4 to re-activate my 2007 download and get that wonderful "Queen of the Skies" add-on back to my daily simulation thoughts / reading / virtual practice. What a detail / accuracy / quality in all sorts of aspects it provides!!!

 

As a previous Aerowinx PS1 user, since day 1 of it's release and until I got Win7 64 bit on my system and gave up on the clumsy techniques required to make it run on this platform, all I can say is that I feel perfectly confortable and at home with this PMDG 744X. In some aspects the PMDG Queen goes even further into the depth of details than PS1! 

 

My recent plans were to save money to buy their 777, but it was stated that it will not support the ESP-based platform I am using, and I fear that it will have it's ways to make sure you're not going to have a successful install on it, so, I might consider their NGX, because although there is already a fully P3D-compatible product sold by Flight1 (the iFly 737 NG) I wonder if their certainly very good dev team could have make it up to the level of the PMDG products since I believe they didn't have access to the same level of detailed info that PMDG has access to (?)

 

For the time being I am at least able to be back at the controls and logic of the Boeing types, alternating with the rather didactic Aerosoft Airbus X Extended and looking fwd to get either the FSLabs or the BBS versions when they have both reached their final versions (actually I believe the FSLabs product will be made available already in the final version, just like all PMDG products...).

 

A great return to the World of virtual airliner operations :-)

 

Try doing an RNP AR approach with RF legs in the NGX..... oh wait, it can't be done because the NGX doesn't support RF legs. iFly sure does, here's the video link 

. Level of detail.......

Try doing an RNP AR approach with RF legs in the NGX..... oh wait, it can't be done because the NGX doesn't support RF legs. iFly sure does, here's the video link

. Level of detail.......

 

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Oh Lord, prepare for the wrath of the NGX'ers after pointing this out! You have just released the KRAKEN!  :lol:

The whole iFly vs. NGX thing I think is moot. They are both top of the class addons and are around the same quality IMO.

 

I fly both....see what I did there? lol. Too early I guess, not enough coffee to post something more witty. 

Well, great video and thumbs up towards the iFly choice.

 

I haven't decided myself yet between the NGX or the iFly NG for P3D. The iFly brings all aircraft versions with it, but costs an additional $10.

I have the PMDG 744x running as acharm in P3D :-)

If the poor iFly wasn't a 737NG you'd hear a lot more about it lol.

 

IFly should do a 67, ya know just stirring the pot a little more.

 

Lee

 

About that ESP platform your talking about Jcomm I hope that like their NG the T7 works but you lose the support from the dev team. That's why I'm keeping fsx installed actually.

Without getting into an EULA discussion, the iFly for P3D is the only NG with a license to use in P3D. Which means support if something goes wrong.

 

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Oh Lord, prepare for the wrath of the NGX'ers after pointing this out! You have just released the KRAKEN! 

 

His statement is true, there is no need for wrath, it's actually a shame RF still doesn't work in NGX.

Well guys!  Thank you all for your posts! I have made my choice now and will soon (so I hope) be flying yet another great add-on in Prepar3D :-)  That's what really matters ;-)

Yes sir, no matter what your choice, have fun with it.

 

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Where is the iFly-737NG Version 3.2 (major Update) for P3D?
I have not seen that it is available yet.

As far as I know iFly-737NG for P3D has missed all 3 major updates (since Feb 2013) that were issued for their FS9 and FSX products.
iFly737NG P3D has never received update 3.11 (Feb 2013)
iFly737NG P3D has never received update 3.12 (April 2013)
iFly737NG P3D has never received update 3.2 (14 Aug 2013)

I read that the iFly737NG is a mature product now and no further updates are expected.
And version 3.2 is the only supported version now.

Navigraph and Aerosoft NavdataPro now both support (RNP AR approach with RF legs etc) iFly737NG version 3.2 navigation procedures  ...
And, as I understand it, Ifly737NG ver 3.2 is required for the current Airac cycle.

 

Try doing an RNP AR approach with RF legs in the NGX.....

 

Um... before you go claiming one is 'superior'... you might want to actually verify that the aircraft in question is capable of flying RF legs in the real world.  RNP level approaches were, more or less, the precursor to WAAS approaches and not a great deal of aircraft ever obtained certification to fly RNP approaches before WAAS came out mainstream.  As example, the Cessna Mustang is WAAS certified, but not RNP certified.

 

Um... before you go claiming one is 'superior'... you might want to actually verify that the aircraft in question is capable of flying RF legs in the real world.  RNP level approaches were, more or less, the precursor to WAAS approaches and not a great deal of aircraft ever obtained certification to fly RNP approaches before WAAS came out mainstream.  As example, the Cessna Mustang is WAAS certified, but not RNP certified.

 

As I can see, the only advantage of WAAS/EGNOS is LPV precision approach with lower minima, but still cannot beat the ILS cat 2 and 3, so it's useless for airliners. Beside that, outside US, number of published GNSS approaches with LVP is so low it's not worth of investment to equip and certify an aircraft. In Europe there are 73 published EGNOS/LVP approaches - ridiculous.

 

I'm pretty much sure I will not be able to fly LVP anytime soon. Maybe in 10-20 years.