I can't read the manual right now because I haven't bought the SP1/300ER, as I'm on the road.  However, aren't these lifeline anchor points required by reg in case of a water ditching?

 

I believe something wrong with the 777-300 model. :(

 

Mo

"There's something on the wing, some... thing"

-- W. Shatner

If you look were that tap is located it will give you a good idea. That tap is to attach a rope that is located by the emergency door inside to be used as a hand rail in the event of an emergency evacuation. It should be more visible from the emergency door wingdow.

If you look were that tap is located it will give you a good idea. That tap is to attach a rope that is located by the emergency door inside to be used as a hand rail in the event of an emergency evacuation. It should be more visible from the emergency door wingdow.

 

 As soon as you takes off and it goes down.

My goodness, what is the world coming to!!!!!!!!

An end.

Guys,

We are not removing this - one of our testers took that photo of it that I posted above on an actual 300ER he was flying on. Some aircraft may not actually have it for whatever reason, but it is in Boeing's manuals and we do not feel this is worth using animation resources to make it an option - the attach point stays.

No matter how great your product is there will always be some FSX rivet counter picking it apart.... :rolleyes:

Out of all the hundreds of interesting things this aircraft can do, you picked on a small metal hoist point on the wing that you really have to look for to notice?

 

I mean it's your money but, seriously.

If half the wing was missing I would understand.

That small detail could seriously compromise the flight's safety if a mid-air over-wing evacuation had to be made, so I wouldn't overlook at it like that.

 

On a more serious note though, in a constructive way I don't see any harm in the point "Mo" raised. It's a very small and (with no disrespect intended) silly detail, that anyone could have missed. However, if I understand right, he isn't really debating whether the hook should be there or not, but the fact that (at least in the -300ER), the hook is visible while on the ground, but once airborne it simply disappears, which would then be a model-related bug since as far as I know the hook is static, not deployable. If I remember properly, this was also mentioned in another topic.

 

Personally it doesn't affect me or the simulation itself at all, it's just that it's one of those little, curious details that would attract one's attention since, after all, their correction completes that flawless and top notch notion we all have about PMDG's products since they're the ones who got us used to such. If I was on the developer's side, I'd be like "oh snap, hadn't noticed that!" and just address it, that's what the feedback is there for isn't it?

 

Hope I was clear enough to not generate any further misunderstanding!

 

EDIT: Also worth mentioning, for anyone interested on checking out the emergency - evacuation equipment, be aware the FCOM has two volumes, Kyle meant page 1.50.6 of volume two. Don't worry, I got lost at first as well!

Out of all the hundreds of interesting things this aircraft can do, you picked on a small metal hoist point on the wing that you really have to look for to notice?

 

I mean it's your money but, seriously.

If half the wing was missing I would

 

I didn't look for it, it came to my attention as I was changing the view on the wing, that is how I noticed it. Either they can fix it to stay on the wing and doesn't disappear when you take off and land . Overall it is supposed to be high quality from PMDG. Here's another one you.

 

Mo

 

I didn't look for it, it came to my attention as I was changing the view on the wing, that is how I noticed it. Either they can fix it to stay on the wing and doesn't disappear when you take off and land . Overall it is supposed to be high quality from PMDG. Here's another one you.

 

Mo

 

If you have a valid issue: support.precisionmanuals.com is the only way you can guarantee that it will be seen...

Guys,

 

The over wing emergency exit guide rope attachment point on our model is placed where it is described in the documentation (FCOM Vol 2 1.50.10) and in the engineering documentation provided to us for creation of the software. 

 

It is very common for Boeing to make changes to the airplane during production, and there are clearly some changes they have made to this attach point on some customer airplanes.  When we create the software we run into hundreds of these types of scenarios- and we have to decide how to manage differences between documentation sources. 

 

In this case, we put the attach point where it is described in Boeing's own documentation and as shown in FCOM Vol 2 1.50.10.
 
We can't put it in two places and we are sticking with the one we have. BTW, the floating issue has been fixed, somebody didn't use enough glue....

Guys,

 

BTW, the floating issue has been fixed, somebody didn't use enough glue....

 

Thank you Jason.

 

Mo