On 11/8/2025 at 12:07 AM, otterspotter said:

Having fond memories of the PMDG MD-11 in FSX, I bought the TFDi version for my P3D 4.5 recently, hoping for at least the level of quality of their 717, which is a fine model that I still enjoy a lot. I'm not sure what version 1.1 holds, but having done a single flight with version 1.0.78 in P3D 4.5 (latest stable version as of 10JUL25), I don't see myself going back for the following reasons:

1. Save states linked to saved flights on long haul aircraft are a must to me. The TFDi MD-11 allows you load a saved state through its EFB but if you save mid flight and then try to load the saved flight in P3D, the aircraft will load in the default cold and dark state with gear out and plunging down a few thousand feet while you fumble with the EFB to load the last saved flight state, regain control and right up the ship, and then regain the lost altitude and get back on course. Huge immersion breaker, though the state does eventually get loaded fine.
2. With long haul aircraft I also need to be able to accelerate time or skip to a waypoint along the programmed route. The latter is not available on the TFDi MD-11 and the highest time acceleration you will be able to achieve is x4. The autopilot is incapable of handling anything higher: the pitch oscillation will increase and get out of control (this is with Active Sky weather but quite mild conditions that aircraft from other developers have no issue handling at x16 or x32 acceleration).
3. The P3D version doesn't have wing flex and apparently it will not be added. I can excuse the lack of wing flex on FSLabs A320 but it's way too pronounced on the MD-11 to not have it. The aircraft simply doesn't look good/believable in the air without it. I wish I had known this before the purchase.
4. I had no performance issues on my 6-year old PC other than having to disable TFDi contrail effects due to the huge frame loss in P3D above 20K feet, the SimBrief integration in the EFB is quite decent (you can load your flight plan, fuel, and payload; no performance calculation within the EFB but you can get somewhat decent numbers in SimBrief), and the autopilot has handled the lateral and vertical profile of the flight quite well (KDFW-KORD: AKUNA9 MLC SGF WELTS TRTLL6). I could live without PW-engined variants, weak sounds, and narrow selection of liveries (10 for the pax variant, 6 for the freighter), but the first 3 issues are deal breakers for me.

While I can't promise everything, I agree that point 1 should be a feature. I'll get it on the list for the 1.1 update.

I have personally added that feature and it'll now be in the next update.

Got it for 2020 and love it but really want it for 2024.