How to Crush a Guy

[W2DR 1,860]

I went down to my local dealer to buy a Lamborghini Aventador. How dare they?...........Can you believe they wanted USD$402,995? Outrageous. So, since I can't afford the good stuff,I settled for a Ferrari 488GTB. Same principle applies to flight sim stuff.........Doug

[montanasimmer 7]

On 7/20/2017 at 4:32 PM, shivers9 said:

I am not into the PDMG thing at all but I just don't understand the old airplane thing that so many developers get into. Now don't get me wrong, I love looking at the pictures and seeing the old birds at airshows but not what I want in a flight sim. It seems like developers would be building the modern stuff that you see for sale first. There is of course many that love the old fighters and love the old Cessnas and the old "Rag Wings" but I am not so sure that the percentage of us looking to spend close to 100 USD's on one is all that large. Who knows? Maybe I am wrong. It may be another one of those "secrets"  that the Dev's like to keep. It all ways tickles me when I here about the tiny market and dev's are starving but somehow and some way they found enough food over at PDMG to squeeze out one more old bird. All kidding aside though they do make fine professional products. I wish they would spend some time making nice modern GA stuff.

It's in part because the modern planes are so boring to fly.   The big radials need a lot of tender loving care, lot of planning in the air, especially on descent so you don't crack the heads if they cool too fast.  You also have to navigate by old fashioned radio beacons.  Keeps you fully engaged - much more than spending an hour planning your flight, then hitting AP at 400' AGL, and then sitting back and waiting to descend.  And A2A seems to have done quite well with their big beasts. 

 

[montanasimmer 7]

On 7/20/2017 at 8:51 PM, Matthew Kane said:

I will pass on this one, not my cup of tea. I would love a 757 and 767 series in PMDG form but they won't go there 

I guess my question on this is how much different would it be flying these than the 737 and the 777?  Sure, the layout of the displays is a bit different.  But the FMCs are almost identical, the procedures are almost identical.  The flows are similar.  The NGX ETOPS model can do most 757 routes and the 777 the 767 routes.  Just seems like more of the same to me. 

[Captain Kevin 586]

52 minutes ago, montanasimmer said:

Keeps you fully engaged - much more than spending an hour planning your flight, then hitting AP at 400' AGL, and then sitting back and waiting to descend.

Depends on how you fly. You could be like me and do something like this:

Or this:

 

[Matthew Kane 1,343]

3 hours ago, montanasimmer said:

I guess my question on this is how much different would it be flying these than the 737 and the 777?  Sure, the layout of the displays is a bit different.  But the FMCs are almost identical, the procedures are almost identical.  The flows are similar.  The NGX ETOPS model can do most 757 routes and the 777 the 767 routes.  Just seems like more of the same to me. 

I have a preference for the 757 due to its performance. No tubeliner out their performs as well, reason why many military's have them for various uses, how many airliners have landed on the ice in Antartica?

I would love a 757 from PMDG, and while they are at it the 767 isn't too different if they wanted to as well, but they have indicated NO so I won't badger them

[HighBypass 2,339]

The 757 also has a "blue note" which is rather cool too.