Just over on flightsim.to.  Looks like the developer is trying to engage with the community, plus some enlightenment on the claimed legal issues - this is relating to the Qantas livery.

bredok
February 12, 2021 

Dear JNKMusic, bredok3d thanks you for this beautiful livery, we would be happy to use it in our official content. Contact us to find out more. About the legal information: Bredok3d is a Microsoft Partner (SID71708930), as such it has been authorized to use parts contained in the original simulator, for which the end user has the legal right of use being the owner of the game itself. This same use is confirmed by other similar products already included in the official marketplace! For 3d models, bredok3d holds 5 different licenses for internal and external.

JNKMusic replied Author

February 12, 2021 

If you can fix the mirroring issues with the model (inclusive of the winglets) I will be able to make this more realistic. Happy to discuss this over private message if you would like.

Edited February 12, 20215 yr by bobcat999

12 minutes ago, Doering said:

supporting your post!

And I yours it was meant honestly, not sarcastically or as snark...🙂

1 hour ago, Chock said:

Really? Here is an FS98 cockpit and the MSFS MAX cockpit...

Looks the same to me....🙃

On 2/8/2021 at 4:06 PM, 737_800 said:

Spend that money on some nice scenery and wait for the pmdg 737 😉

This ^^^^^

1 hour ago, Treetops45 said:

Those who have taken the plunge - how does the FDE feel?

Any FPS hit from the aircraft itself, or add on liveries that are coming through on .to?

T45

It's not the lightest on FPS, but if your sim is running okay with default aeroplanes then you won't have any problems with it. I was quite happily hand-flying a smooth FPS go-around circuit over Dar Es Salam last night, which is a pretty vast city with lots of buildings, and I have all the sim's graphics settings up on maximum for the most part.

Flight-wise it handles nicely and is easy to hand-fly, making it a pleasant thing to bring in for a visual approach. It feels like an airliner would and is certainly not a million miles away from how I imagine a 737 MAX would fly, since the MAX was made to handle much like the NG, in order to keep a similar type rating, and it flies more or less like the iFly and PMDG NGs do.

About the only thing I do think could do with a tweak, is perhaps the drag with lots of flaps deployed. The 737 is notoriously a bit slippery to slow down, but I suspect it would slow down a bit more easily in real life than it does in the sim at low altitude with all that flappage hanging down, so if you are late and steep on a final approach, it can be tricky to lose the airspeed, hence my go-around last night. On the plus side, you can actually side-slip it, not that you normally would do that in an airliner to often, but it certainly does do a slip.

Keep in mind that I am no expert on the 737 MAX, most of this is based on what I know of the 737 Originals, Classics and NGs.

Edited February 12, 20215 yr by Chock

I forgot to ask the more obvious question.  Does the doors pax/cargo open on this model?  Air stairs are too much to ask for at this point so I won’t ask....

16 minutes ago, Dillon said:

Air stairs are too much to ask for at this point so I won’t ask...

Most models since the 90s have omitted the stairs option. 

Added weight for how often they’re used nowadays, as even some of the more rural airports are equipped with stairs that can be brought up to the aircraft.

But to answer your question, yes doors and cargo hatches all work last time I checked.

Edited February 12, 20215 yr by Cmcollazo71

The front and rear passengers doors can open and it lines up okay with jet bridges and looks good. There is a bit of the interior doorway modeled so you can put your view in the front passenger doorway vestibule and look into the cockpit or out to the jet bridge and it is a fairly convincing view, but there is no cabin modeled. The holds are modeled however (not 100 percent accurately but most people wouldn't know that unless they'd been in one). The hold doors do open.

Most airlines probably would not use airstairs apart from Ryanair, so that's one aspect where it won't matter for many users although since Ryanair is a big operator of the type it might have a bearing for some people.

Some pics of the front passenger vestibule and the inside of the forward hold and exterior of rear hold.

Front door interior, this is pretty accurate looks-wise although not super detailed.

This cargo hold is fairly accurate dimensions-wise, although the real 737's forward hold has a bit ahead of the cargo doorway entrance where you tend to sling the crew bags and prams. It has a canvas screen which fastens over it too though ans another little netted-off area right opposite the door entrance too, but if we pretend that wall is the screen, it's not completely inaccurate and it'd only bother nerds.

Visually this one is more jarring for the external model. Can't remember for certain if the cargo doors open inwards on a Max, but they do on all other 737s, and since the Max is in many ways a tarted-up NG, I suspect the door mechanisms are unchanged, so I think this is wrong. The cargo doors open up and outwards like this on the A320 via a hydraulic ram, but I'm pretty sure they go in and up on all 737s and are worked manually, unless they changed the MAX, although as far as I recall from (briefly) working on Norwegian Max airliners before the grounding of them, Boeing kept this the same:

Edited February 12, 20215 yr by Chock

I'm still really digging this plane, great for short 1-3 hour hops. 

Think this is going to make me pull the trigger on PACX.

Edited February 12, 20215 yr by MediaHypeTrain

On 2/9/2021 at 8:04 PM, Manny said:

and niggly stuff that doesn't work like why the toilet doesn't flush by the  SJW "Legalese" team here. 🙂

if it does flush the water better swirl the correct way depending where on earth it is or......NO BUY!!!!!

4 minutes ago, Brandon01110 said:

if it does flush the water better swirl the correct way depending where on earth it is or......NO BUY!!!!!

Bart is that you?

Good to see Bredok communicating! Would love to know the future plans for this thing. Textures alone would make a huge improvement.

12 hours ago, GoranM said:

Maybe a more objective review from someone who bought it.

 

Cough, cough the Hotstart TBM still has random CTD's and is not perfect either!

Watch out Bredok could make this thing incredible! 

Edited February 12, 20215 yr by Greazer

Confirming they open to the inside. Appear to be plug type doors.

Edited February 12, 20215 yr by Cmcollazo71

On 2/9/2021 at 9:04 PM, Manny said:

by the  SJW

I don't think you know what that term means.

Edited February 12, 20215 yr by Tuskin38