This doesn't sound too promising from what I'm reading here, I think I too will stick with 4.5 and keep my current 747 without the update.

I've already had command of the real world 747 ripped from my hands this week, I can't risk loosing my simulator 747 as well. 

What’s up with the strobe lights?  They look terrible 

Since I have not flown the 748F for a long time I thought i would try with this update am on v4.5

Taxi'ing was no problem but i only taxi at 15ks in a straight line and 6-8kts in tunes, all perfect no idea what all the drama is about. Try at the right speeds and then see. Turns 7ks...

As for all the updates! well wing flex on the 8F was very small and nice. No flapping its wings now. Taxi'ing the wings did not really move much at all.

The aircraft is modelled really well and is a joy to see inside and out.

Its a great aircraft, it really is.

But...

No new refuelling like the ngu, why not PMDG? and still just adding in a ZFW for cargo/pax is so old now. FSL = ATSU/GSXv2 is a different world for immersion. PMDG you need to up your game.

I enjoyed the flight but its still lacking from the NGu, becasue at least in that you can call a fuel truck, enter your fuel load and its fill up. A step in the right direction but not in the new 747!

For me its not moved at all in my list of what I want to spent time in. 3rd at best, well its 3rd as I only have the FSL/NGu/747 installed. But its still a long way back on the other two sadly. If it had the integration of GSXv2 like the FSL then this and the Ng would be right up there. Until then.

Close but no cigar.

 

Edited May 10, 20206 yr by Nyxx

Went for a test flight yesterday, SDF-HNL in a UPS 744F.  With EA enabled, active sky beta and AIG OCI traffic enabled I was very impressed by the smoothness and FPS at SDF...low 40’s for the most part without stutters.  Things were going well until somewhere over California when I decided to go outside for a look and promptly had a CTD with g2d.dll.

So certainly some promise here with v5, but yesterday will likely set the record for the most CTDs I’ve ever had in one day (across a variety of aircraft in a variety of scenarios).

37 minutes ago, regis9 said:

Went for a test flight yesterday, SDF-HNL in a UPS 744F.  With EA enabled, active sky beta and AIG OCI traffic enabled I was very impressed by the smoothness and FPS at SDF...low 40’s for the most part without stutters.  Things were going well until somewhere over California when I decided to go outside for a look and promptly had a CTD with g2d.dll.

So certainly some promise here with v5, but yesterday will likely set the record for the most CTDs I’ve ever had in one day (across a variety of aircraft in a variety of scenarios).

Ya, i'm not going anywhere near v5.0, maybe 5.1 whenever that is but by then MSFS might almost be here so who knows..... Once the sharkets are out for FSL, I will go from v4.5hf2 to v4.5hf3. That's it for now. 

3 minutes ago, B777ER said:

Ya, i'm not going anywhere near v5.0, maybe 5.1 whenever that is but by then MSFS might almost be here so who knows..... Once the sharkets are out for FSL, I will go from v4.5hf2 to v4.5hf3. That's it for now. 

They said you don’t need the hotfix for 4.5 to upgrade to sharklets 

Just now, micstatic said:

They said you don’t need the hotfix for 4.5 to upgrade to sharklets 

Excellent, then I have one less thing to do when it is released. I'm getting in some flying with the PMDG 747 now as I know when the sharklets are released I will be on that for weeks to come. 

after a few flights overall I still like the PMDG 747.  But the things I would like:

-More options for ground handling.  Don't like the execution of the new taxiing even if I appreciate it in concept. If you could combine the old feel with the heaviness of the new concept. 

-Strobe lights are VERY bad.  I mean very bad.  Taxi light/Landing light.  Really seems old and out of date.  I've seen much better light technology in other airplanes.  With DX12 out, I bet this will be even further developed.  They can do better here. 

-Snow/Ice Modeling.  Granted it will be 6 months until I care about this again.  But the FSLabs and a notch down Maddog do it very well.  

-View changes and texture load time.  Something is wrong.  Doesn't happen every view switch but often.  

-Texture of wings/engine nacelles seem muddy.  PBR color of nacelles looks black.  

 

Other than that I appreciate PMDG being the first of the big time airplane makers to get a V5 one in our hangar.  

I had a CTD in all of the three flights I did with it

Activesky is causing the CTD on p3dv5. Check hifi forums

9 minutes ago, vincentrouleau said:

Activesky is causing the CTD on p3dv5. Check hifi forums

Ok! Was using indeed Active sky

I don't like how sometimes I get textures reloading when switching views. Example, going from VC to externals, and vice versa. If I'm in in a heavy area loaded with 3rd party add-on the texture reloading happens often, and it's quite slow and really ruins the immersion. This is one thing that really bothers me in P3D. Hope this can be fixed.

And I totally agree with others about the ground features that are in FSLabs version. I hope PMDG will add GSX compatibility with all their planes so the 2 can work seamlessly together to bring a more immersive experience to the sim.

The lighting for this plane looks old gen. The modeling is nice, however the lighting doesn't match. I really hope they can fix the lights to make it look more nextgen.

 

53 minutes ago, rob0203 said:

Ok! Was using indeed Active sky

 

1 hour ago, vincentrouleau said:

Activesky is causing the CTD on p3dv5. Check hifi forums

where does it say its causing ctds?  maybe im missing a trick here 

Hi:

So just a tip/idea.  I haven't updated the 747 yet either and I'm still v4.  But I've found, whenever I update or install a new airplane, I also rebuild config. and shadders.

Maybe that will help.

For all people who have DXGI errors when switching to the cockpit, try disabling HDR as a friend of mine had said disabling HDR will remedy the DXGI errors.