iFly Jets 737 MAX8 Released

[dpergau 137]

I find my frame rates definitely take a hit with the iFly MAX at even medium sized addon airports.  I'd rank it similar to FSL A320.  PMDG has less FPS issues and the Majestic Q400 is just the best at everything 🙂

 

Dan

[Urmel81 189]

On 1/10/2023 at 3:07 AM, Samaritano said:

Yes it does. It is really annoying. I don’t know if it’s something wrong with my setup but I have followed all the advice on the iFly forum, for example, having your throttles firewalled for the autothrottle to work correctly. 

Did this soulution work for you?

[Urmel81 189]

Is anyone using this new soundpackage from simmarket?

 

[Luis Hernandez 566]

13 hours ago, dpergau said:

I'd rank it similar to FSL A320.

Ouch, those are bad news. I'll keep waiting then...

[Samaritano 304]

9 hours ago, Urmel81 said:

Did this soulution work for you?

Unfortunately it did not. I keep flying it but it is in fact annoying.

See here. N1, trim and throttle are always trying to correct for lack of a better term.

 

 

By the way, thanks for your fantastic AFCAD’s.

Edited February 16, 2023 by Samaritano

[787flyer 633]

FYI

IFly posted some new screenshots yesterday of the next version for the Max, the -8200.

They can be found in the Announcements section of the 737Max forum.

[okupton 308]

Just a heads up that the 8200 variant as well as several bug fixes/improvements have been released 

[787flyer 633]

7 hours ago, okupton said:

Just a heads up that the 8200 variant as well as several bug fixes/improvements have been released 

Thanks for the update.👍

I didnt realize they had released another update this week.

 

Kudos to iFly attending to some fixes and enhancements. I have been really impressed with their forum support and the professionalism shown. 👏

 

I am really enjoying the Max. I am currently on a round-the-world tour in my now-defunct Flyr 737 -8 Max.

Earlier this week I mentioned I saw an issue with the ADF displaying VOR distance. I am glad to see this was very quickly fixed by the team in this latest update.

[Juliett Alfa Romeo 517]

😍

Edited March 5, 2023 by Juliet Alpha

[David Vega 348]

I just learned that iFly released the B737 Max 8-200. Besides the new model, there are several improvements and bug fixes. 

[Juliett Alfa Romeo 517]

MAX 8 Hotfix v1.0.1.1 released.

[dpergau 137]

It seems my throttle issues were user induced (no surprise here!)  I now put my physical throttle into idle at the top of descent.  VNAV works incredibly well now.

Dan

[chapstick 2,757]

14 minutes ago, dpergau said:

It seems my throttle issues were user induced (no surprise here!)  I now put my physical throttle into idle at the top of descent.  VNAV works incredibly well now.

Dan

It's not really your/users' fault tbh... iFly simply does a poor job of blocking throttle inputs when A/T is engaged, even if the option is ticked. It's definitely not like PMDG where it blocks 100% of all inputs from the throttle. Honestly it's one of my biggest gripes with this plane.

[Juliett Alfa Romeo 517]

I have a question about the units in P3D, ActiveSky and the MAX.

In P3D settings, as usual, I have Hybrid (feet, millibars). I mostly "fly" in Europe, so that's correct....

ActiveSky shows data in Celsius and wind speed in knots.

NGXu and FSLabs also seems to work and display the values correctly in the Performance predictions of the respectives EFBs. Great!

But my iFly 737 MAX...

I asked for help on the appropriate forum and apart from being told to read the manual (which I had already done) the methodology is more about me trying to find out what the problem is because in the manual and in my settings "it's pretty clear what the problem is" (or at least I'm realizing that's what they're trying to do to me...)

And here's the problem:

In ActiveSky, the winds are in Knots and in the EFB in M/S (meters? miles?)

If I change the plane's units to US System, the wind will be in Knots but everything else will be in Farenheit or Feet as well.

How do you have this or how did you resolve this issue? It could also be that I'm stupid and not interpreting things correctly...

 

 

 

 

[Bob Scott 7,715]

ActiveSky displays the METARs and TAFs in their native formats, which use regional standards for units.  It sends that data to the sim in P3D's internal machine format, and writes out a global weather file which is then read by the add-on and reformatted into what you see on the EFB.

So the problem lies strictly in the iFly panel and its display options.  I don't have that add-on, so I can't say if there's an available option to display temp in deg C, QNH in HPa, and winds in knots, as is done by most of the world outside the US and Canada with the exception of a small number of eastern European and Asian countries.