Catching sight, here, today, of a few (excellent) screenshots of the incomparable PMDG 777 SIM, it occurred to me that, back during the end-of-year SALE in December, I'd acquired several (CS) expansion add-ons, to be installed on top of their base models, one of which was for the (CS) 777-300 expansion. The other (incremental) CS expansions, I'd acquired during that (overzealous) spree of acquisitions...🙂...were 737-100/C/F, 737-200 Adv, 727-200, 757-300, 777F, L-1011F etc., each of these a/c expansions being interesting in its own right...!

Anyway, I'd forgotten about the "777-300" expansion, so I installed it today, and was pleasantly surprised to end up with two new models of 777 in my hangar...the 777-300 (PW Engines) and the 777-300ER (GE engines), both requiring the base (CS) 777-200 model, that I've owned since many years. Specification-wise, the two 777 planes (300 and 300ER) are relatively similar, although the 777-300ER has a slightly larger wingspan (see the first 2 images below). Aside from that, the length, passenger capacity, height, fuselage width, etc. is the same across the 777-300 and the -300ER. And, of course, as implied by the suffix (ER = Extended Range), the biggest differences between the 777-300 and the 777-300ER is the range, ~5800 nm vs. ~7400 nm, respectively. The 777-300ER is now planned to be succeeded by Boeing's latest B777X program (Emirates and Lufthansa, expected to be the launch customers for it).

For visual comparison, I've included two B2B (similarly angled) screenshots of both 777 variants below. The -300 (1st image, below) is of an atypical, plain-looking, Singapore Airlines Star Alliance livery (note the (red) flag of Singapore in the rear, and the Airline name/logo just under the letters "CE" of "ALLIANCE", in front). The -300ER (2nd image, below) is of the Emirates Airline. The rest of the images also belong to the Emirates 777-300ER. Emirates is the largest 777 operator in the world...with 148 777s in current fleet, and 115 777Xs on order...!

There is another special reason for my choice of the Emirates. 4 years ago, in 2018 January (the timeline, cross-checked today, with my better-half, with better memory than mine, in such matters...🙂...), I'd travelled (once) in the Emirates 777. I note that the Emirates' current fleet consists of 777-200LR and 777-300ER, but I don't know which type, I was on during that (one-time) travel...Anyway, I've picked, here, the -300ER, to showcase Emirates, in this post. 

This 777 SIM is no PMDG, but, still, it seemed like good fun (and reasonably complex) to fly...especially for the non-professional (and non-rigorous) simmers like yours truly is...🙂...The images, below, show a take-off, and then up and past the moment I've enabled LNAV/VNAV when the plane is banking to align itself towards the next the WPT on the flightplan route...

BTW, the over-sized engines, on this plane, to my eyes, look a bit too "big" to be "beautiful" and "elegant"...but certainly "utilitarian"...of course...🙂...Nonetheless, I hope you enjoy these sample images of this massive (and popular) twin-engined (extra-long-haul) jetliner...!

Edited January 30, 20224 yr by P_7878

Very nice set of shots 777! 🙂 

Fine set of shots from the tripple seven !

cheers 😉

Alaska738, pmplayer et al.:

Thanks much...!!