I known this is a pictue in the -300 but I have seen them on the NG's

I cant quite make out whats going on there

 

I known this is a pictue in the -300 but I have seen them on the NG's

Looks nice, but what's your question, exactly?

Looks like a HUD that doesnt know where it is.. I.E the IRS's arnt aligned...mabe?

in a future update could we have an option between this hud and the other one?

I'm just surprised that the airline bothered with updating an old 737 with a HUD/HGS??

 

PS: even if this particular carrier/airline purchased this 737 with the HUD/HGS already installed, whoever originally installed it....surprising indeed.

 

Rgds,

 

 

in a future update could we have an option between this hud and the other one?

 

My guess would be no.  It's not a huge difference anyway, and is this model even available for the NGs?

With a few exceptions, at SWA, all our aircraft are HUD equipped (300, 500, 700 and 800's). We do hand flown hgs approaches to cat III mins with the HUD. No auto land for us.

Btw, what you are looking at is the Rockwell Collins HGS 2300. That is the model we use on the 300/500. The 700 uses the 2350 (same as the 2300) or the 4000 series just like the 800, which is a newer version with a better display and includes rollout info. Pmdg has done a awesome job of replicating it, remember to set all the parameters on the hgs panel.

My guess would be no.  It's not a huge difference anyway, and is this model even available for the NGs?

 

With a few exceptions, at SWA, all our aircraft are HUD equipped (300, 500, 700 and 800's). We do hand flown hgs approaches to cat III mins with the HUD. No auto land for us.

 

 

Btw, what you are looking at is the Rockwell Collins HGS 2300. That is the model we use on the 300/500. The 700 uses the 2350 (same as the 2300) or the 4000 series just like the 800, which is a newer version with a better display and includes rollout info. Pmdg has done a awesome job of replicating it, remember to set all the parameters on the hgs panel.

 

 

My guess would be no.  It's not a huge difference anyway, and is this model even available for the NGs?

My dad works for SWA and he says that those and mostly common in the -700,-300,-500. I don't think it would be that hard to add just use the same programming as the normal one

I'm just surprised that the airline bothered with updating an old 737 with a HUD/HGS??

 

 

I think SWA went to HGS in about 1999 or so..??  But I'd have to double check that..

Many of those classics were not quite as old then.. Many are just now being replaced

with NG's. So they got a good number of years out of them after being fitted with HGS.

 

I think it's kinda like the two different MCP's used on the NG's. I bet most of the older NG's

using the 2350 also have the older Honeywell MCP.

All the new planes use the newer Collins MCP, and the newer HGS 4000.

I don't know if the two changes were around the same time frame though.

 

I guess like the two MCP options with the NGX, the two different HGS styles would be a

valid option if one wanted to be totally correct as far as simulating a certain age of NG.

But it's not one I would lose sleep over if PMDG didn't add the older HGS 2350 as an option.

I'd still probably use the present HGS 4000 in my 700, as I have it rigged as a newer plane

with the Collins MCP, etc..

And naturally the 800 being all new planes, use the 4000.. So I'm good as far as my SWA

planes.. I have my private 600 rigged as an older plane, so I guess the 2350 would be the

most accurate option, but I have no trouble living with the more advanced 4000 in that plane,

even if not totally correct for it's age.  The functions I use are pretty much the same with either

one. About the only thing I would notice is the different shape of the combiner.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

is that a -300 or a -200 though?

In any case, I don't see why PMDG would come back and design a different VC just to include a HUD that looks vaguely different at best.  A HUD is a HUD.  The fact that one collimator has edges and one is ovoid is getting a little too finely detailed.  You should be looking through it, anyway...

I don't think it would really be worth the trouble. I don't think they ever used the HGS

on the 200's. And they have been gone a good while. That image above would be a

300 or a 500. Probably a 300, being as there are a lot more of those than the 500's.

A lot of the old classics are gradually being replaced by NG's. I've taken pictures of some

at KHOU not too far back, and some of those have already been retired since I took them.

This was the very first SWA 737-300. I took this in 2010 going into Hobby on 12R.

It's since been retired and sits at some aircraft museum in Dallas.

 

 

This is ridiculous topic, same as "we want 777-200ER" one .The fact is NGX HUD is newer, better, and can do all of the things as 2300 can, and even more. It's like asking your car dealer why there is no audio cassette player option for brand new BMW.