2 minutes ago, Booms said:

Yup good tip, found that out real quick on first take off!

How did you configure the throttles? For me it seems before the detent, mine is throwing the reverses on making it very tricky to lower throttle to idle. I tried binding Throttle Axis and Throttles Axis 0-100%. I don't see anything about calibration in the manual.

I use this setup which still works great

 

Honecomb Bravo owners be aware! There is gear handle bug. I had to delete my gear binding and use manual mouse handling for now
 

that’s not good. Asobo should fix this or pmdg should give us a work around. Make it a 2 position lever and ignore the middle detent. 
 

the same 3 pos gear lever works great on the Zibo with my bravo quadrant. So it can be done. 

I am not a member at PMDG, but is the Bravo issue with the landing gear gaining traction? Did they recognize it?

This is from a user over at the PMDG forum: 

 

"I managed to find a solution! Swap the default binding around as in picture below, then make sure to set both to trigger 'ON RELEASE' as shown. Quick change and works perfectly! You can even select the gear to OFF position with the mouse with no conflict. Hope this helps."

 

Gear up: Button 32

Gear down: Button 31

Edited May 10, 20224 yr by Hatch76

If you have the AIG AI models installed, the sim will load those in MSFS Multiplayer if you don't own the PMDG 737. So PMDG set up the ICAO model info correctly

16 minutes ago, vin747 said:

Honecomb Bravo owners be aware! There is gear handle bug. I had to delete my gear binding and use manual mouse handling for now
 

that’s not good. Asobo should fix this or pmdg should give us a work around. Make it a 2 position lever and ignore the middle detent. 
 

the same 3 pos gear lever works great on the Zibo with my bravo quadrant. So it can be done. 

I set up my Bravo gear leaver like this. Seems to work perfect. I have to use the mouse to click on the lever to get it in the locked middle position.

 

Still on the fence of buying either this or the BAE 146. How come they are equally priced? It looks like PMDgs product gets gleeful  laudation and the moment either a 373 or a a320 appear on the market everything else vanishes, back to the combo airliner times we´ve been living for 20 years, so, isn´t it a bit strange, that PMDG always erases competence even with products cheaper than their own? Is the BAe 146 less complex, les feature rich for the same price or is the hype of some altering the picture here?

10 minutes ago, tweekz said:

Same. How are the ones already flying enjoying it?

So far; very much indeed....but I’ve only flown it twice, very briefly, once on flat screen, once in VR.

Initial impressions; very good, smooth frame rates in the very impressive cockpit - smoother than the FBW airbus I think. However the control yoke animation and possibly the throttle too seem ‘jerky’ in operation. Not sure what the problem is as this has not been noticeable in any of the streams I’ve watched.

Pretty decent exterior model but I haven’t had a close look yet. The sounds!! Wow, best in class, best in sim? Could be.

 Nicely responsive rudder on takeoff, hand flew very well for what my opinion is worth and flying on headings seemed pretty convincing to me. 

Didn’t have any problem landing at all but getting reverse thrust to work is going to take some investigation. Overall, really impressed right now.

Tonight will see if I can make it swallow a flight plan and do it properly.

Watch out on initial loading of the plane in the sim. No, it hasn’t crashed it just takes 15 to 20 minutes to load first time; for all three versions too.

6 minutes ago, Aristoteles said:

or is the hype of some altering the picture here?

This is what I would  also like to know, hence why I did not purchase it yet. I wouldn't mind an impartial review. Not from some YouTube who's probably been paid. Or some guy outa online forums. But a proper review. 

Just now, Ianrivaldosmith said:

This is what I would  also like to know, hence why I did not purchase it yet. I wouldn't mind an impartial review. Not from some YouTube who's probably been paid. Or some guy outa online forums. But a proper review. 

Thing is, people who have barely had time to fly the BAE or the MD80, automatically , buy , and solely fly the 737 for....ever XD , it´s like, simming automation for 20 years....Is it really such a improved model compared to the others mentioned, which are in fact even more expensive?

7 minutes ago, DD_Arthur said:

Nicely responsive rudder on takeoff, hand flew very well for what my opinion is worth and flying on headings seemed pretty convincing to me. 

Didn’t have any problem landing at all but getting reverse thrust to work is going to take some investigation. Overall, really impressed right now.

Good to hear. I like hand flying.

First impressions: On my 7-year-old computer, the PMDG 737 performs superbly. FPS is fantastic -- smooth with no stutters at all. My performance at handcrafted airports actually seems better than with many of the default MSFS aircraft. I have poor eyesight, and I'm able to read the instruments more clearly with this 737 than in the default cockpits. I love the audio as well. PMDG has worked magic with this release! Don't worry that your computer won't be able to handle it. As I said, performance is actually better than many of the default aircraft. The purchase website and downloads are now working perfectly and quickly.

T:\MSFS\Community\pmdg-aircraft-737\Config\Flightplans

Does not send the flight plans to my 737 FMC.

9 minutes ago, Aristoteles said:

Still on the fence of buying either this or the BAE 146. How come they are equally priced? It looks like PMDgs product gets gleeful  laudation and the moment either a 373 or a a320 appear on the market everything else vanishes, back to the combo airliner times we´ve been living for 20 years, so, isn´t it a bit strange, that PMDG always erases competence even with products cheaper than their own? Is the BAe 146 less complex, les feature rich for the same price or is the hype of some altering the picture here?

I bought them both and love them.

I actually had purchased the PMDG 737 for FSX and P3D way back when, but I was having so many problems with my system then, running out of memory and hard disk space all the time and converting everything to P3d, I never really was able to complete even the tutorial missions.

When I heard that PMDG was making a 737 for MSFS, I expected that it would be the most complex and complete aircraft I could ever fly. But after reading the manual I think now I was bigly mistaken. PMDG have laid out the tutorial to be more like "easy mode." And indeed I was able to start the plane on the runway, and just take off. Today I will go step by step through the tutorial flight, and hopefully it will load into the FMS without discontinuities, which really make it difficult to learn the basic procedure.

On the other hand the BAe 146 is more like trying to solve a Rubik's cube. If you can just get all the pieces in place it will fly beautifully.

3 minutes ago, Boomer said:

T:\MSFS\Community\pmdg-aircraft-737\Config\Flightplans

Does not send the flight plans to my 737 FMC.

That's not the correct directory, it's the one in your Packages folder. Search for pmdg-aircraft 737 folder on your C drive, it will be inside of the Work folder.