How about a BCF preview? No seriously, only confirmation it will be made would be awesome.

 

Cant wait for the preview!

 

 

Nonetheless, competition is a good thing.  Keeps people on their game.

 

I'm at a loss as to why they've gone down the 747-400 route

 

 

Actually, it started off the other way. They listened to the buyers and progressively updated it to a point where the 737 is very competitive with pmdg. In fact, its far better value for money.

 

I'm glad you think that. It's up to you to choose which one you'd like to buy, and if you think theirs is more value for your money, then, for how you're using the sim, it probably is.  That's fine.

 

My neighbor was criticizing my choice in car the other day because he knows my car (Gen Coupe 3.8 Track) tends to eat through gas a little quicker than his (Prius) does.  "It's so much better on gas mileage," he said.  I said "great, but that's not the reason I got a car. I have a bike for when I want better gas mileage." We simply have cars for different reasons.

 

All of this judgment is unsurprising, though, as I live in Reston, which is so granola that the sidewalk crunches as you walk down it...

 

 

 

And it's 'weather radar' uses data from ASN so a strange comment.

 

Anything can use data from ASN. Very few (only one as far as I know so far) have actually incorporated this into an actual weather radar.  As far as I know, the "weather radar" in the iFly is still a glorified cloud finder.  Sure, it's a glorified cloud finder that uses cloud data from ASN, but it's still finding clouds and not precip.

 

 

I'm at a loss as to why they've gone down the 747-400 route

 

You and me, and quite a number of other people. I laughed, heartily, in the middle of an airshow crowd, when I saw the news, posted up by a friend in the community. Must've been an odd sight, too. A guy, dressed in a 1940's Pan Am uniform, holding a cell phone and laughing...

 

 

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Epic reference, btw.

This is indeed the only thing that puzzles me. While it looks great and will fly great for sure (their 737s did), i wonder why the heck they made a 747.

 

It has been beaten to death already but come on 757, 767, ding ding ding!

This is indeed the only thing that puzzles me. While it looks great and will fly great for sure (their 737s did), i wonder why the heck they made a 747.

 

It has been beaten to death already but come on 757, 767, ding ding ding!

Because they had the 747 v1 and it was easier to create a more advance plane from where they left the 747 v1!!!!!

NaMcO - You could argue the point that as the 747, 757 and 767 are being phased out, why bother with any of these. After all many companies are moving to Airbus, at least here in the UK. I think the point is, the 747-400 is a popular aircraft with simmers and is the reason why it has been done to death, each one being better then the last (or at least we hope). I agree that it would be nice if somebody made a nice 757 or 767 for fsx, but I do seem to remember reading something about and agreement between PMDG and one of the current 767/757 developers not to make one (although this could be idle gossip).

 

I for one love the shape of the 747-400 and will be looking forward to adding it to my Christmas list, even if it is Christmas 2015.

 

Kyle - I love the Gen Coupes no matter how thirsty they are. I had one for years and had very little problems with it. I now have had to go for a family Jaguar which I think was built on a Friday just before knock off time.

Hey guys, stop knocking the competition. If you cant say something nice about them, say nothing.

 

As for why they are doing it, why not? They see the same customers making the same demands that PMDG are seeing and PMDG thought it was worth while, so why shouldn't iFly?  You think iFly should hold off because PMDG have already anounced one? Yea, well, PMDG have been known to take their own sweet time and even change their mind on occaision. That's right Robert, we haven't forgotten your WoodPidgeon promises.

 

 

Kyle - I love the Gen Coupes no matter how thirsty they are. I had one for years and had very little problems with it. I now have had to go for a family Jaguar which I think was built on a Friday just before knock off time.

 

Part of the reason I got it was for the warranty that lasts forever and a decade...

 

I was at the DC Auto Show at the beginning of the year and I was getting car crazy.  I had previously ditched my spunky Z3 for a Lancer GTS because I wanted room to actually move things in my car, like my bike and snowboard.  Prior to the Z3, I had a 93 325is.  So, I went from relatively zippy (manual RWD), to very zippy and fun (manual RWD), to anemic sedan-ish car (manual FWD).  The anemic engine wasn't getting me much better mileage than the 325is, which both looked and performed better, so I was going to get a 98 M3.  In speaking with my dad, he said I should just bite the bullet and go with a new car for the warranty, and to look at Hyundai and a few others, since they've come up a lot over the years.

 

I'm so glad I have a car that I can stomp on the gas and the weight shifts to the drive tires again.  It's a pretty decent champ on the highway, too, for the engine size.  The only problem I've had so far is the entertainment unit likes to randomly reset my personalizations (24 hour clock and selection of DST), and it occasionally won't auto-adjust the brightness.  I'll just dump it at the local dealership when I go to Italy for a week in Jan for that, though.  Yay warranty!

NaMcO - You could argue the point that as the 747, 757 and 767 are being phased out, why bother with any of these.

 

I was just thinking we have enough 747s already. When iFly and PMDG put their products out we'll be saturated and still lacking a 757 or 767 as good as those.

I like that PMDG are not saying anything about the iFly announcement..... the professional (and noble) way of competing in business, is to compete with your product not with your mouth.

I am sure the competition will be won on visuals, feature lists, performance (and perhaps marketing) rather than "nah nah nah nah nah!" comments, dooming the competition to fail before they've gotten off the blocks ..... :wink:

Good luck because, just like last time, they'll be hyped in the beginning, people will compare them to the PMDG version for a while (usually failing in the process, especially now that their "weather radar" isn't much of one versus what we have here with ASN), and then they'll fade off into the sunset.

 

Nonetheless, competition is a good thing.  Keeps people on their game.

I'm going to buy both the Ifly and PMDG birds. I've wanted a good looking 744 for a long time and the current PMDG one is to dated for me to enjoy. Yes the systems are there but the visuals are very 2006 ish. I look at it this way even if the Ifly is $80 that really isn't that much when you consider you get a 744 at least a year before the PMDG bird is available. In today's world $80 won't even buy dinner at a nice restaurant and you get to enjoy that for an hour or so while I'll be enjoying my 744 for many hours over the next year.

 

 

As for why they are doing it, why not?

 

I'll tell you why not, because people are already saying in this forum and elsewhere, that they are going to buy PMDG's 747 over the competition's. Surely the aim is to sell as many copies of your product as possible? Why limit your market by going head to head with a company that has a reputation for being among the best in the game?

I've always loved the Boeing 747 and that was pretty much the only plane I used to fly back in the day of me using FS2004. With FSX I haven't bothered as the quality of the cockpit/virtual cockpit isn't anywhere near today's standards (PMDG NGX, PMDG 777) so I am very pleased that PMDG are doing a new version which will look amazing.

Some prefer the daughter and other the mother.

 

Good we got the choise

 

I like both - so I´m double happy

 

 

Finn Jacobsen