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So you have to make screenshots of every PDF page of the dep and arr airport on every flight you do.

That's just stupid.

 

 

"Plane" stupid.

Will it have a Virtual Cabin?

No, they have pushed the virtual cockpit model alone to the max that FSX can handle.

Amazing sotware!!! Working on a Throttle for this!! Eagerly waiting or the release!

 

Regards

 

Roberto

Hi Robert,

 

Thank you for the update. 777 is my favourite plane and I am looking forward to the release of this product.

 

I have a question from the screenshot below. Is it the angle the screenshot taken because it seems two overhead panels on left side and right side are mis-aligned. 

 

I could be wrong. But if you can confirm that would be great.

I have attached the same screenshot with markings to illustrate the anomaly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Robert,

 

Thank you for the update. 777 is my favourite plane and I am looking forward to the release of this product.

 

I have a question from the screenshot below. Is it the angle the screenshot taken because it seems two overhead panels on left side and right side are mis-aligned. 

 

I could be wrong. But if you can confirm that would be great.

I have attached the same screenshot with markings to illustrate the anomaly.

I'm sure that's just the angle it was taken at...

Looks like the whole edge is different size which looks like its just the angle, if you look at how much of each seat is being shown that would show the angle is off.

I'm sure that's just the angle it was taken at...

Have to agree. I'm fairly certain, after thousands of photos, that they would get the placement correct.

Do we get dusk and dawn runway lights I know same old story but find it hard to believe its not included, thank you.

 

This is now an option to have the external light splashes at all times. Be aware it looks weird if you go too far into the daylight - no way around that, it's just the way the technique works.

 

Of course by "delay", I meant anything that keeps you from releasing this marvel this afternoon! That's how we customers think. If it's not the tutorial, then by the process of elimination, it can only be one of 37 other items. (I've been paying attention)

 

Both the NGX and the MD-11 had very nice introductory tutorials. The BIG Kahunas didn't come till later, but I was hoping to cajole some information about the release tutorial. I'll just try to finesse a little more info out of Ryan.

 

Hey Ryan, what kind of release tutorial can we expect?

 

It's a more involved tutorial than the first NGX one was. Everyone complained that the first NGX one didn't have cold and dark startup and all of that (even though that's an incredibly rare situation to find an airliner in) so this one will be more like the NGX advanced one was minus the crazy visual approach and stuff.

 

Robert,

The update is great and the SS look stunning. Thank you.

 

Could I ask you Robert,

The NGX was very late coming out as you said you made it a module for the T7, 747v2 etc. You did not give any release dates but went into depth explaining that the new module build would bring the product build time down to around 6 months and suggested that the 747v2 would again only take around 6 months.

 

Given the T7 is going to be around 2 years from the NGX release, is it unreasonable to ask what happened to the module build and built times as you said the NGX was to form this module so build time would not be years but months.

 

What happened? and given what's happened to the T7 is it unreasonable or unrealistic for us waiting supporters/customers of yours to expect another wait of around 2 years for the 747v2?

 

I really don't believe we ever said to expect 6 months between major product releases. We spent 7+ months supporting the NGX after its release in August, 2011. All the 777 work has been done in the past year and a few months basically - this has been nowhere near as slow as the NGX itself was and a lot of that module system helped. The logic for things like the ECL, the ECIAS messaging, major differences in how the autopilot functions internally etc were not things that can be carried over from the NGX and had to be programmed on their own. I'm not going to speculate on the 747 except to say that the majority of what comprises one is already there and done in the 777. It's a less advanced airplane, not a more advanced one and that will help.

 

:p0816: please explain?  I said nice pics but no EFB.  Every other payware 777 comes with an EFB that accepts .pdf Airport charts.  It would have been nice to include it. :good:

 

Because a real EFB is not a PDF/JPG viewer - if we do it we're going to do it right and it'll have the features the real thing does.

 

Will it have a Virtual Cabin?

 

It has a low resolution cabin similar to what the NGX has. It's designed so that you don't just see emptiness through the cabin windows on the external module. It is *not* some sort of high detail fully modeled cabin - we do not do those, we couldn't even if we wanted to because the detail in the cockpit and external model sucks up all the available polys and animations.

Thanks so much Ryan you are the man my friend rock on buddy

Hi Robert,

 

Thank you for the update. 777 is my favourite plane and I am looking forward to the release of this product.

 

I have a question from the screenshot below. Is it the angle the screenshot taken because it seems two overhead panels on left side and right side are mis-aligned. 

 

I could be wrong. But if you can confirm that would be great.

I have attached the same screenshot with markings to illustrate the anomaly.

 

We'll take a look again but I just now found a photo on one of the sites that looks very similar to these shots. (can't link it due to forum rules unfortunately) The real overhead definitely does angle out like that on the first and third "thirds" of the overhead - it's an ergonomics thing that came out of Boeing's discussions with pilots during the airplane's development. They found that it was hard to see those edge parts on older airplanes and this was the solution Boeing's designers came up with.

 

 

I said nice pics but no EFB

 

Ahh, but that was a bated comment meant to provoke.

Hi Robert,

 

Thank you for the update. 777 is my favourite plane and I am looking forward to the release of this product.

 

I have a question from the screenshot below. Is it the angle the screenshot taken because it seems two overhead panels on left side and right side are mis-aligned. 

 

I could be wrong. But if you can confirm that would be great.

I have attached the same screenshot with markings to illustrate the anomaly.

 

Bilial-

 

This is not an anomaly- it is intentional and it is correct.

 

I described it in the first paragraph below the first preview image in this very thread...

 

You guys are funny...  Are you telling me I don't have to put all that work into typing- I can just post the images and go get some sleep instead?  :wacko:

Bilial-

 

This is not an anomaly- it is intentional and it is correct.

 

I described it in the first paragraph below the first preview image in this very thread...

 

You guys are funny...  Are you telling me I don't have to put all that work into typing- I can just post the images and go get some sleep instead?  :wacko:

You could just put a nice download link and sleep even longer

Guys, really?  You're pointing out MINOR (perceived) graphical anomalies at this point...?  You're killing me.  :-P

Guys, really? You're pointing out MINOR (perceived) graphical anomalies at this point...? You're killing me. :-P

Always going to be a few people... doesn't bother me, some people see the ultra minute details.

 

Pics look great, good luck with release team.

 

Oh I wanted to write one thing about EFB's in simland. First off, we're "sitting" in a VC that's on a 2D monitor, usually around 21-40" diagonal. The EFB is quite tiny on an already tiny VC total area. I prefer my charts on a 2nd monitor, or iPad (I've got a phone/tablet but pad works better). There's no way you would be able to clearly make out the taxiway designations or all the text on an IAP unless you made a custom fixed view with EZCA or something. In which case what's the point of having an EFB in the VC? Even if they did make a realistic version it wouldn't be very practical.