4 minutes ago, forshaw said:

I am in no hurry to invest in the 800 until PMDG implement their EFB which I am assuming will only be for the 800.

?  Strange assumption to make.

The EFB will be introduced across their whole range of Boeing products for MSFS.

1 minute ago, DD_Arthur said:

?  Strange assumption to make.

The EFB will be introduced across their whole range of Boeing products for MSFS.

Fantastic, thanks for the correction. That's good to know. I guess I misinterpreted what I read which was that the EFB will be introduced as part of the -800 released but was then delayed. My bad.

 

14 hours ago, F737MAX said:

. I think some of the PMDG defenders on here give them a bit too much leeway for their pricing model. 

It depends on how many variants you wanted to try. If you want to try several variants, you end up paying more in MSFS.

For me, I only ever wanted the 800 variant. I don’t really care about the other variants. So I saved more money because it cost $70 USD for me, not the $100 USD in P3D.

Edited August 28, 20223 yr by abrams_tank

8 hours ago, UltimateAntic said:

Enjoying the 737-800 so far. The ground services are also really cool, but quite buggy IMO. A fair amount of times the vehicle get stuck when trying to arrive or depart, leading to things getting stuck permanently. There is no option to reset the ground vehicles either so some things just stay attached until I take off.

I hope PMDG continue to support the product and fix remaining bugs before they move on to the 747/777.

Kinda on this topic.  I pulled up to a jet bridge in PHOG yesterday, It extended but not to the airplane - it was well short.  I was on the lead-in line too.  Any fix?

Thank you.

1 hour ago, Dreamflight767 said:

Kinda on this topic.  I pulled up to a jet bridge in PHOG yesterday, It extended but not to the airplane - it was well short.  I was on the lead-in line too.  Any fix?

Thank you.

Every problem with jetways is a problem of either MSFS's jetway services or the airport scenery data (like parking spot or jetway wrongly placed). This has nothing to do with the aircraft or any other tool that uses the jetway. Usually when you try it like 5 times and it still doesn't work, it's the airport scenery (AFCAD data), so you need to contact the developer.

2 hours ago, Dreamflight767 said:

Kinda on this topic.  I pulled up to a jet bridge in PHOG yesterday, It extended but not to the airplane - it was well short.  I was on the lead-in line too.  Any fix?

Thank you.

If the aeroplane is in line with the doorway opening of the jet bridge, but that is not extending all the way, then it is likely an issue with the airport scenery itself and its detection of the aeroplane type. Flight sims tend to simplify this a little bit by only having one stop point on the stand's centreline, so it is somewhat dependant on the AFCAD, but if it is stopping short of the aeroplane, that sounds like the AFCAD is erroneously detecting it's a widebody airliner. In reality, there are of course many different stop marks for various airliner types and its the stand's docking system or a marshaller which guides the aeroplane to the correct point, whereafter the jet bridge is driven onto the aeroplane manually. Although jet bridges can be moved around a lot (it's usually the dispatcher who does this), most service agent dispatchers prefer to make life easy and just move the thing in and out to a well-used position rather than driving it about all over the place and since most stands tend to service only a small variety of airliners, often only one type, this is normally pretty straighforward, for example, we pretty much exclusively use the jet bridge on stands 42 and 43 at EGCC for British Airways narrow-body Airbuses.

You could try using some other software such as GSX, or even the built-in airstairs since the 737 usually does have these (not always, it is in fact an airline customer option); some airlines use the airstairs exclusively so they don't have to pay for using airbridges (Ryanair is probably the most famous example of this). Even if your airliner is in a livery where the airline would normally use a jet bridge, it is not unknown for these to go unserviceable and to have to use some narrow body mobile stairs or, as with the 737 the airstairs, so this is not an unrealistic choice in your sim.

It's a slim possibility, but it is worth noting that jet bridges and mobile stairs have a limit on their use above certain wind speeds; when the wind speed is above this limit (if I recall correctly, it's when there are gusts over 20 knots), they cannot be safely used because the airliner pivots in the wind thanks to the big tailfin acting like a sail and this can make the stairs bang into the fuselage and damage it. In these conditions, the airport issues a wind warning and some operational options kick in (no cones on the aeroplanes and a lot more chocks on the wheels for example). I doubt this is something an add-on airport scenery would be able to do and I don't know of any add-on sceneries which have that level of AI sophistication, but I may be incorrect about this.

 

Edited August 28, 20223 yr by Chock

8 hours ago, Noel said:

You do have to "release" them in the Ground Services menus....in case you weren't aware.

I did release them, but they would get stuck waiting for other ground services to depart first. 

5 hours ago, forshaw said:

I was disappointed that PMDG didn't introduce the EFB with the new 737 line since there are Freeware Aircrafts out there with very good EFB.

Yup it's pretty bad form even GA aircraft have them!

Edited August 28, 20223 yr by VBHB

So is it me, or are the engine sounds in this thing *really* good? It's been awhile since I flew a PMDG 737. I decided to be patient and wait for the -800 to come out, so I haven't flown one since MSFS came out. But I don't remember the engines sounding this good before. 

2 minutes ago, eslader said:

So is it me, or are the engine sounds in this thing *really* good? It's been awhile since I flew a PMDG 737. I decided to be patient and wait for the -800 to come out, so I haven't flown one since MSFS came out. But I don't remember the engines sounding this good before. 

I think PMDG and RSR have commented on how much work has gone into the audio overhaul, and they are indeed "really" good 🙂  

4 hours ago, UltimateAntic said:

I did release them, but they would get stuck waiting for other ground services to depart first. 

Are you using GSX?  I'm not, and MSFS ground services don't seem to work at all, except for jetway operation.

7 minutes ago, Noel said:

Are you using GSX?  I'm not, and MSFS ground services don't seem to work at all, except for jetway operation.

I think you have to use the PMDG ground services instead. I think PMDG deliberately disabled the default ground services for the PMDG 737-800. You can access the PMDG ground services in the FMC.

3 minutes ago, abrams_tank said:

I think you have to use the PMDG ground services instead. I think PMDG deliberately disabled the default ground services for the PMDG 737-800. You can access the PMDG ground services in the FMC.

I've seen stairs and cargo loading ramps are part of ground services, but no "services", i.e. baggage loading or other.  

1 minute ago, Noel said:

I've seen stairs and cargo loading ramps are part of ground services, but no "services", i.e. baggage loading or other.  

Yeah, I can get the cargo loading ramp vehicle to work, and also the cargo box truck with the blue cargo boxes to show up and get into position. But when I click, "load", the belt of the cargo loading ramp does move at all, and no luggage is loaded on/off the PMDG 737-800.

I'm holding out for GSX so for now will just ignore what PMDG is doing w/ this part of ground services.