I agree, this is the best freeware product that I have seen. Thanks to the folks for providing this.I too, would like to learn if there is any flight planner that can be used with this airplanes FMC. I found that the plans are saved in a .FLTPLAN format. I was able to manualy enter a flight plan into the FMC, however, this is a lot of work using the mouse and clicking each entry into the plan.Jim

The download figures for this aircraft are quite significantly inaccurate -- a fallacy of the Library system is that it counts *attempts* to connect to the download server rather than successes, so the >10,000 downloads the file claims are a little inaccurate -- a more realistic figure would be around 2,000, but this is still extremely impressive!The extreme inaccuracy is due to the popularity and size of this file causing the Library server to be very busy -- and hence causing some connections to fail.Matt

This is an interesting effort. It has an amazing amount of stuff in it. I only wish I could get the sounds to work with it but there seems to be no sound.cfg for the 744 sounds that he bundled.The 2-D performance is dreadful on my PC (and I have a DELL XPS 3.80Ghz!) although it is excellent in 3-D (i.e., VC). The flight model is not great; it handles a bit ike a Cessna after tanking up on too much Beaujolais.A magnificent contribution nonetheless, a great entree for these developers.JS

I would like to thank the iFly Developement Team:Jiangwei ShenFounder, gauge developer & 3D modelingBo Yuan2D painting & optimiztionMiao LuoDocumentation & manual writingQinzhong YaoTechnical mentorThese guys have done a fantastic job. This has to be an award winner. Thanks guys!Alas! I will not be able to fly it until I get a new computer someday. My little PIII800, 256MDDR Ram, Win98SE, 5600XT/256 rig won't handle it. It is a very nice slideshow. I only wish I could use it. I have been wanting a really good 747 since I became a simer!Oh well...Merry Christmas everyone!Earl

Just to say I received an email from Jiangwei Shen in 2 hours with some help for my sound issue. Unbelievable service and attention!This team has produced something remarkable, eh?JS

Good idea, I'll write them a mail personally!Andreas

I'm also expressing my gratitude to developers.This question has been posted previously but just to remind you: Did anybody found those shortcuts to different panels (other than going through the FS menu)?Besides I'm also experiencing 6 fps in 2D view for some time after takeoff. Then it jumps to 24 fps (normal for my system) all by itself. Any news, observations, or solutions about that?

Maybe I've missed it, but has there been an announcement from Avsim regarding this release?Would also be nice to have a detailed review of this major freeware contribution to the flightsim community.Credit where credit is due.

Hi JSCan you please tell me what the sound-issue answer from the developers was?Thanx in advanceRegardsHenrik KorningBGGH

regarding the slow performanve problem in 2D:The Mainpanel uses a very small bitmap as background (1x1 Pixel in size), as a unhappy owner of the FT 737 PIC i just used their background bitmap for testing and put this instead of the original one in the panel.cfg in section window01.Before that change i got 6 fps in 2d and around 20 fps in VC, after that change i get 15-18 fps in 2d no change in VC.I found this as i tried to open the panel in fspanelstudio and all panel windows had a very small size on my screen, i couldn

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Henrik:It was no big deal: I didn't observe that the SOUNDS were for the gauges and thought something was wrong when in fact it wasn't (my usual rush to look and figure something out, sometimes the wrong way!). The default sound was aliased to the MSFS 737, so I switched that to a different 744 soundset I have.JS

Ron:I am not sure I understand what you are doing with swapping out bitmaps. Can you elaborate or simplify at all, please? What should we look to replace and how? Do we replace in the 2_D only or in VC as well? What is an acceptable bitmap if we don't have the FT 737 PIC?Appreciate any further explano or clarification. Thanks!JS

I've found lots of bugs in the airplane systems without even trying, but I guess I can't complain for freeware. Let's just say I won't be removing PMDG's 744 from my hard drive in a hurry ;)Rgds.Q.