01APR14 - Quick PMDG 777 SP1 Update

[XCLTM3 112]

It'd be the real deal........only PMDG.

[hopskip 253]

I'm still cautious, it's April 1st, but the fact that ASN offers a legitimate weather radar, based on real clouds, leads some credence to this possibility.  PMDG's stance all this time was that they could not see the point in modeling WX radars because the radar would be depicting fake clouds/precipitation based on some random occurrence in the simulator.  Since ASN offers it's own radar that reads real precipitation/cloud data, it makes sense that they may license the technology to be integrated in the 777.   But for this to be true, wouldn't the user be required to own ASN to use this realistic radar?   I'm a bit puzzled, but in the back of my mind I have always thought it would be great to merge the ASN wx radar into the PMDG 777.

I agree, if for no other reason than to have a way to avoid those disturbingly LOUD (wake up the neighbours at 3am loud) encounters with hail at FL340 when you fly through towering CB, like I did one night while live-streaming a flight from Stockholm to Dubai. That hail noise was a good 3 times louder than anything else I had heard that whole flight! And yes, I was at FL350 odd when I encountered it!

[max2770 75]

Cruel joke!  Still, I'm waiting in line for the SP1 and 300ER.  As a common meme would say...  Shut up and take my money!

[Falconfly 61]

As much i would love this to be true....looking at the date...hmmmmm

[cenkcnk 24]

that was cruel lol

[AirborneZed 168]

Worst joke ever... I'm sad...

[Guest Mik75]

loool!

[ivo09 23]

Wow if this is a joke then I am really sad. Can anyone confirm that a weather radar isn't an April Fool's Joke?

[Echo52 46]

He said he rounded the corner into a new month.  That makes me think he wanted us to know it was April 1 at his current location.  Could be a joke.  On the other hand, Active Sky Next has changed the game and maybe we will get WX Radar.  Time will tell.  

[troyk 27]

Naaaaw it's legit. They just posted it on April fools to tease us a little.

 

Isn't that right? :Praying:

[phoenixphire 50]

Oh the cruelty. The first words out of my mouth when I saw that screen was B... S..t. Definitely an April fools joke that won't be beat. Maybe Robert will make it up to us by giving us a real update tomorrow. 

[Morvious 43]

Haha that alternate and remaining fuel number. Creative I must say!

[phoenixphire 50]

Haha that alternate and remaining fuel number. Creative I must say!

 

 I just caught that too. 

[Werner747 107]

:LMAO: :LMAO: :LMAO:

 

Usually some other poster will make a joke like this, but coming from PMDG, that's classic LOL.

 

Kind regards

[Sam 68]

Hahaha

 

 

And the room is on fire