Boeing 777x

Having fully retired at the end of last year I have been (finally) crawling nicely up the B737NGXu learning curve. Flying with a domestic only VA and have some significant hours logged these past six months. Like many of us, there are some landings I would rather not have anyone ever see, but it’s coming along.

My thinking has been turning to my long term path of jetliner flying. I have significant resources put out in hardware, including 10 GoFlight modules that have finally been fine tuned and working quite well with both my 737NGXu and MSFS. Dozens of hours of learning and trial and error.

I’m in the process of joining another well seasoned VA to begin expanding my learning to the B777 and getting around the globe some. I have not yet pulled the trigger on the PMDG 777.

I won’t go into the indecision running around in my head over upgrading to V5, but the more I’m reading of stability and peoples favorable results, the more the indecision grows. I’ll leave that one alone for now.

While I’m well aware this is the P3D forum. Trust me, I’m a P3D word not allowed as well as a Boeing word not allowed. However, it’s not necessarily what I “want” for a future growth path to the 777, but where the players and the industry are headed.

I just watched a fantastic Youtube video on the real Boeing 777x. There are four currently flying. Seems delivery will commence going into 2024. While no one knows what variant of the 777 PMDG will release, or when, it seems that they are most definitely going to be moving to MSFS. I just don’t see them developing a 777 for BOTH platforms. Perhaps I’m just wrong about that.

Not so sure they would offer the 777x as their first 777 offering, but if the pace of releases follows the past 18 months, and with all of Boeing’s woes, I would think they might just hold off and offer the 777x on the MSFS platform first. Where does that leave us old P3D drivers. Sends a pretty strong message to us. Just my opinion.

Could be totally wrong with this line of thinking, but I would be interested in what many of the old Boeing drivers here are thinking about the issue. Thanks!