PMDG 737 - Do you have the little HUD thingy?

[dobee51 348]

Yesterday I loaded up a base 737-700 with United livery and began flying the tutorial flight from KPDX to KSFO. As I approached Top of Climb or whatever it's called, the instruction said to setup the Head Up Guidance System. I looked everywhere and couldn't find the Collins device anywhere. Long story short my plane flew past SFO and crashed...blah blah blah while I was searching the internet for where that device might be in the cockpit.

Then last night I tried a Southwest Airlines variant, and right away I noticed there was a HUD above the visor that could be pulled down. Sure enough the control box was also present right there in the center console below the radios. 

Also when I was crashing the ground proximity warnings went off, and I started getting terrain data in the PFD. So is all that working? How about the weather radar? Is there any documentation for operating all of these and the Glideslope radar?

[Bdub22 1,609]

I believe that certain airlines have different setups. The United 737-700 might not come with a HGS system. You can add it though, through the menu's in the FMC. 

[DavidP 1,410]

I think you need to read some of the supplied manuals. When you state "Top of Climb or whatever its called" it sounds like you're a bit out of your depth.

[MDFlier 2,031]

Try a different United airframe. Some of them might have it. Pmdg actually used the build sheet from a couple of different airframes to configure the included liveries.  If not,  you can turn it on in the aircraft setup menu..

[flyinion 280]

Weather radar is not implemented.  Still waiting on Asobo to create the API for it to allow WASM modules to retrieve the info.  The terrain "radar" is not actually a radar as Robert from PMDG explains in one of the videos they did for the plane.  It's actually pulled from a terrain elevation database that is included in the aircraft.  It's not actually being actively generated by a radar or similar hardware..