14 hours ago, Waldo Pepper said:

If my Radials are about to start smoking,   I can wait.

Just did a quick test and had the plane do a self-start by selecting "Ready to Taxi" on the tablet so I could watch from the outside view of those big radials gave a nice smoke-filled startup now.  Didn't see nuthin'.  Hoping it must be a setting I've overlooked...

 

I was using the Pan Am Livery. After update, it was totally screwed up both inside and outside the aircraft. I reinstalled the livery, no help. I then loaded the MATS livery and everything OK. 

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Captains,

As mentioned in last night's NOTAM, we have released an update for the PMDG DC-6 for Microsoft Flight Simulator tonight. The update is available to you now via the PMDG Operations Center.

This update was driven *primarily* by the need to update the product in order to ensure compatibility with MSFS after the platform's significant update that was released on 27JUL21 by Asobo/Microsoft. The platform changes driven by it's continued development caused many breaking changes that required modifications to the PMDG DC-6 in order to ensure compatibility and smooth operation of the airplane within the sim environment.

Listing these breaking changes is a bit beyond the scope of what I want to do here as they are mostly irrelevant to all of us who are end-users. What matters is that changes were made to continue compatibility.

That being said, we have the development team standing by to see how the DC-6 does in the new environment because we are nearly certain that some issues will have slipped by our notice, as we were unable to give the DC-6 a proper test cycle in the new MSFS environment. We apologize for this, as normally we like to thoroughly test releases before handing them to you, but we were only invited into the MSFS testing environment for the new update when it was within days of release to you. Thus our effort to catalog/research/fix problems ran essentially from Wednesday-to-Friday of last week with us handing a laundry list of problems off to our friends at Asobo beginning on Friday morning.

Amazingly in spite of our late addition to their test process, Asobo took our reports and handed us fixes via additional beta platform updates on Friday- even deep into Friday night. The spirit of cooperation from Asobo to act on these reports so very late in their development cycle is astounding- and worth calling out with an ovation. We were surprised that they were able to continue being responsive in such close proximity to their release and ultimately we continue to be impressed by our interactions with them. There are never excuses- and they try very hard to support a broad range of developer needs, even late in the process. That bodes well for platform, so please do know Asobo is a good horse to be betting on.

In the midst of all these changes, we also wrapped in a few other changes from our collection of service reports. That list follows here:

PMDG DC-6 for MSFS (v2.00.0033 Released 28JUL21)
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0010099: [External Model - Liveries] Paintkit Landing Gear Door Texture Mis-Mapped (jbrown)
0010115: [External Model - Liveries] 6-BP Right Door Glass (jbrown)
0010108: [Suggested/Missing Features] Tablet changes for color blind users (hvanrensburg)
0010110: [Systems Behavior/Functionality] Display issues in Bendix radios - Sim Update V (hvanrensburg)
0010106: [Virtual Cockpit - Animation/Functionality/Click-Spots] Seconds hand overlaps the hours hand at the clock (vscimone)
0010101: [Documentation] POH - radios on during engine start (hvanrensburg)
0010078: [Systems Behavior/Functionality] Props wind milling slowly after shutdown in moderate winds. (hvanrensburg)
0010088: [Systems Behavior/Functionality] CLOCK- behavior change after selecting Sim Acceleration X4 (hvanrensburg)

We anticipate we will probably have another cleanup update here shortly to deal with any other platform-change related loose ends that may appear. Then, I hope to begin showing you the PMDG 737 for MSFS that is preparing to enter the testing environment itself.

Exciting times ahead, everyone! Thank you so much for your continued support of our products- we do very much appreciate it.

Another mini-update. 737 appears to be on track. Asobo still very committed to listening to issues and working on them up until the last minute. Very excited to see what they can do in the final half of this year.

Edited July 28, 20214 yr by suncoastflyer

20 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

I was using the Pan Am Livery. After update, it was totally screwed up both inside and outside the aircraft. I reinstalled the livery, no help. I then loaded the MATS livery and everything OK. 

How were the liveries installed Bob?   If they were both from the Ops Center via PTP, then PMDG needs to know about it to look at the PAA livery.  If they were installed outside the OC and thru a drop to the community folder, then that could be a possible issue too.

The Everts paint I've been working on, installed thru the OC, came thru the update unscathed. 🙂

Just now, Steve Dra said:

How were the liveries installed Bob?   If they were both from the Ops Center via PTP, then PMDG needs to know about it to look at the PAA livery.  If they were installed outside the OC and thru a drop to the community folder, then that could be a possible issue too.

The Everts paint I've been working on, installed thru the OC, came thru the update unscathed. 🙂

Yeah, Posted a photo of what the Pan Am livery looked like on the PMDG forum. It was a stock livery from PMDG. 

Ugh....ok...Pete I'm sure will be all over it. 🙂

Hope to have this Everts done "soon"^®  But....I just got a new batch of reference photos from a guy that used to work for Everts and crawled all over them as a mech...so adding even more details now.   You an check out her progress here:

Everts "Blue Canoe" - PMDG Simulations

 

As I don't go to their forums at all, were there any updates on the 737 recently? Weren't they supposed start showing it in September?

7 minutes ago, Drumcode said:

As I don't go to their forums at all, were there any updates on the 737 recently? Weren't they supposed start showing it in September?

Just had a look, nothing new as far as i could see, some were mentioning they are supposed to be releasing an update with pics at some point during Sept.

7 minutes ago, jbdbow1970 said:

Well its kind of clickbait to some who jump in "with exitement" to expect some type of update than be let down when there isn't any. Kind of bummer.

Remember when Robert from PMDG announced they weren’t going to be putting out the ngx3 for p3d back when msfs was released where people thought no new 737 was coming for p3d, people were ready to torch the place…then a few hours later the ngxu was available on their site…Ah good times!! 😂😂

1 hour ago, Drumcode said:

As I don't go to their forums at all, were there any updates on the 737 recently? Weren't they supposed start showing it in September?

PMDG updates tend to come at the very end of the month, often the last day.