well there was so much angst about this that I had to get it especially looking at the posters providing the angst 🙂

Frankly, it's better than what I would expect for £20,  it flies well, it follows it's course on LNAV accurately and the speed settings are good both at KPH and at mach  (although it can be rather  hard to slow down sometimes and needs a deft hand on the spoilers, especially in descent mode), it locks onto approach and lands nicely and it's really fun to fly, either on autopilot or by hand.  All the doors open correctly for the ground services and it fundamentally looks like a 737 max both inside and outside to a level that I am happy with  especially at this price point.

Done a couple of flights this morning with it..  Bristol to Edinburgh  and Heathrow to Frankfurt and both were uneventful apart from the second flight, I suddenly lost my speed indicator and she started accelerating, but a quick flick from autothrottle to manual and back solved that.

It's also better on frame rate (for me) than any of the delivered airliners.. I was getting just under 60 FPS sitting in the cockpit at Heathrow on all Ultra settings at 1440/2k on a rainy, heavily overcast day.

Yes, it may not be PMDG level, but then again, it's cheaper than a lot of payware airports as well and frankly, it's no worse than the default airliners and in some cases better.

will a $150 aircraft be better than this.. well I would hope so, but for the next year or so, I will be happy flying this version and I have never been convinced that a single plane costing more than the sim is worth it for me anyway.

I think this will be my goto airliner for now and all I need are a few liveries..  the first (Malaysian) already being out on flightsim.to  so I dont think it will be long.

Graham

Edited February 10, 20215 yr by Moria15

🙂

By the way, first repaints coming..

B737-800 MAX MALAYSIA AIRLINES • Flight Simulator 2020

 

cheers 😉

This plane is flying off the shelves, thanks to this wonderful advertising thread. The developer probably can't believe his good fortune and is doing happiness cartwheels. Ha ha. 

1 hour ago, pmplayer said:

🙂

By the way, first repaints coming..

B737-800 MAX MALAYSIA AIRLINES • Flight Simulator 2020

 

cheers 😉

Second one also now available at flightsim.to  Turkish airlines 🙂

Graham

10 hours ago, Cmcollazo71 said:

Avsim - where add ons go to die!

Pardon me for adding the dash, but I think we've got a new strapline! Made my day already and it's not yet 11:00 - luvverly!

😎

Just saw, thanks..

Bredok3d-boeing 737 MAX Turkish Airlines Livery • Flight Simulator 2020

 

cheers 😉

 

 

2 hours ago, cmpbellsjc said:

Les, so you don’t offend you son calling that, it’s actually Embry Riddle 😉 

Already caught that. Typing fast and mis-spelled the name.

3 hours ago, AnkH said:

Interesting, that most 3D models of rather not so experienced developers all suffer from the same phenomena: they look like being on stilts. This 737 max 8 rendition is way to high above ground, as such the proportions simply look off. Same effect is seen for several "cheap" models like the virtual col planes (especially the A220) and so on. So I wonder: is it really that difficult to make those landing gear struts having the correct relation to the fuselage as such as the plane does not look ridiculous?

Actually the 737MAX looks ridiculous in real life on the ground they way the engineers tried to keep the nose higher off the ground for the bigger engines.  This is not that far off.  It's totally not like the 737NG which looks far better on the ramp.

Edited February 10, 20215 yr by Dillon

11 minutes ago, Dillon said:

Actually the 737MAX looks ridiculous in real life on the ground they way the engineers tried to keep the nose higher off the ground for the bigger engines.  This is not that far off.  It's totally not like the 737NG which looks far better on the ramp.

If I compare RL pictures to this model, it is still far off by margins, irrespective of the fact that the MAX is further above ground than the NGs. It just looks wrong...

New liveries are coming up. That was fast!.

Cheers, Ed

Does anyone know if there is any gear compression? (i.e. when landing) That might be the issue with the height. 
I am thinking if there is no wing flex, the gear compression might be lacking as well.  If so, hopefully it is an easy fix.

Now a lot of the wrangling has subsidised (hopefully 😕), I am hoping this does become a bit like the Zibo mod in Xplane - and why not? 
With what the community have done with other aircraft in the sim up to now, this would be a prime candidate for it. 

The external model (other than the things noted above) is pretty good, and the repaints are already looking great, so if the systems and internal modelling can be gradually improved, it could turn into something fairly solid.

I like the A320, but you just can't beat a 737 with a decent set of colours on it!
I hope a southwest scheme follows soon (yes, I have bought it, but not had a chance to try it yet).

I think ( and hopefully ) there coming ongoeing updates for this ( first have come so far but not realy changes impossible things )

but we will see.

IMO the money is worth but it isn`t MSFS Standard ( optically seen at the panel and the plane itself ) that boders me most;  the AP is working like the AP from the 747-8 because it is the same

and i don`t like the sound for it than this is also 747 like, there could be done mutch more also on the Cockpitlook - but as said we will see..🤔

 

cheers 😉

New liveries for B737 is coming...

https://flightsim.to/file/7674/bredok3d-boeing-737-max-turkish-airlines-livery

44 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

Does anyone know if there is any gear compression? (i.e. when landing) That might be the issue with the height. 
I am thinking if there is no wing flex, the gear compression might be lacking as well.  If so, hopefully it is an easy fix.

This could be indeed the reason. Good if it gets fixed, currently it simply looks so wrong, I can barely look at it. When she is airborne, she looks totally fine 😉 

1 hour ago, AnkH said:

If I compare RL pictures to this model, it is still far off by margins, irrespective of the fact that the MAX is further above ground than the NGs. It just looks wrong...

I saw the MAX many times in real life and it looked wrong.  It really looks like they were squeezing too much out of an old airframe.  I can't fault this model too much in this area...

Edited February 10, 20215 yr by Dillon