20 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

It isn't anything currently mentioned such as the 777 variants, 737 Max, or 747.

https://msfsaddons.com/2024/08/25/pmdg-teases-new-aircraft-project-amid-development-updates/

 

 

DC-4 😀

Whilst it probably would not be the greatest financial decision ever made, I would still love to see an MSFS version of the Jetstream 41. That has been at the back of the PMDG hangar for far too long.

A plane that has been tickling my fancy lately is the MD-90.  I kind of hope Leonardo does it at some point but if not perhaps eventually TFDi will take it on?  I believe I read the AutoPilot is basically the same as the MD-11 so TFDi has that mastered.   

I have flown on a few of them in my time.  Once flying SAS out of Bergen Norway on our way to Copenhagen.  It was the first flight of the day and it was required to poor it on during takeoff.  We climbed like a homesick angel.  Almost totally vertical and it was an amazing experience.  Next time on Delta out of Salt Lake City.  It was not as aggressive as the flight out of Bergen but still pretty solid and it was a 90F day in Salt Lake City that day!

The DC-9 series needs to be done as well but I don't see PMDG doing that one either! 

Whilst Zen 4 and Zen 5 processors seem to get around a 10% improvement, is thete anything in it for Zen 3 users or is that just wishful thinking?

I'm not sure if this is an AMD thing or just of help to the newer chips.

Edit: A bit of research suggests all AMD processors may get some benefit, but we will have to see how earlier ones do.

Edited August 26, 20241 yr by cianpars

10 minutes ago, longhaul747 said:

They are doing the 737-200 and that is taking a long while without a lot of new news.  It was also mentioned recently on some forum somewhere that it will strictly be the Nolinor combi configuration limiting what can be done with it.  I am starting to think the Blackbird 737-200 is vaporware at this point as it has been an ongoing project for 2 or 3 years but who knows maybe it will just drop this upcoming fall season.

In active development according to their Discord. 

17 hours ago, KERNEL32 said:

Not related but, was I dreaming a year or two ago, or didn't PMDG say they were working on a 757 for MSFS?

If the upcoming 757 of @sherv_BBS Bluebird features a panel state saving function and the ability to load flightplans without being forced to use SimBrief, there's no need for a PMDG 757.
Visuals will be perfect and so will the soundset be.

14 minutes ago, hs118 said:

In active development according to their Discord. 

That is good to know.  I remember being in the Honolulu airport walking in the domestic terminal.  They have an open air domestic terminal or at least back then they did.  At that moment an Aloha 737-200 did a complete 180 degree turn and the noise those JT8D's made was incredible.  I hope to experience that in MSFS someday!

 

Surely there is someone in our vast community who spends their working life staring at the a*se end of airliners undergoing maintenance, and can recognise what they are seeing in those photos?

Edited August 26, 20241 yr by Petraeus
Trying to placate the AI censorship bot and its Victorian-era sensibilities

46 minutes ago, longhaul747 said:

A plane that has been tickling my fancy lately is the MD-90.  I kind of hope Leonardo does it at some point but if not perhaps eventually TFDi will take it on?  I believe I read the AutoPilot is basically the same as the MD-11 so TFDi has that mastered.   

I have flown on a few of them in my time.  Once flying SAS out of Bergen Norway on our way to Copenhagen.  It was the first flight of the day and it was required to poor it on during takeoff.  We climbed like a homesick angel.  Almost totally vertical and it was an amazing experience.  Next time on Delta out of Salt Lake City.  It was not as aggressive as the flight out of Bergen but still pretty solid and it was a 90F day in Salt Lake City that day!

The DC-9 series needs to be done as well but I don't see PMDG doing that one either! 

The MD-90 is actually VERY similar to the MD-80.  You are thinking of the 717 (Originally known as the MD-95).  The avionics of that plane are in fact very similar to the MD-11.  

12 hours ago, micstatic said:

The MD-90 is actually VERY similar to the MD-80.  You are thinking of the 717 (Originally known as the MD-95).  The avionics of that plane are in fact very similar to the MD-11.  

Oh okay...I actually thought they both had the same autopilot but now that I think about it perhaps it would make more sense that the MD-90 autopilot is the same as the MD-80.  Now that I dug into my memory really deep I remember reading an article a long time ago only Saudi Arabian Airlines had its MD-90s made with the MD-11 style autopilot.  I think that was the case?

I am surprised nobody has solved the puzzle yet.  Its pretty much 100% speculation on my part that its a 737 Classic in the works.  I can only say I am confident I have seen that bolt pattern before and back in the day I flew on a lot of 737 Classics. 

9 minutes ago, longhaul747 said:

Oh okay...I actually thought they both had the same autopilot but now that I think about it perhaps it would make more sense that the MD-90 autopilot is the same as the MD-80.  Now that I dug into my memory really deep I remember reading an article a long time ago only Saudi Arabian Airlines had its MD-90s made with the MD-11 style autopilot.  I think that was the case?

I am surprised nobody has solved the puzzle yet.  Its pretty much 100% speculation on my part that its a 737 Classic in the works.  I can only say I am confident I have seen that bolt pattern before and back in the day I flew on a lot of 737 Classics. 

Saudia paid a lot of money for that upgrade and indeed was the only operator. The Delta MD90 cockpit was identical to the MD88 IIRC on day of retirement of both fleets. 

Things it is probably not:

1. Beech Starship
2. Avro Canada Avrocar
3. Dornier Aerodyne
4. Boeing V22 Osprey
5. De Havilland Aircraft Company DH106 Comet 
6. AV-8A Harrier
7.  Armstrong Whitworth F.K. 10
8. Yakovlev MC-21

 

767 would be amazing! 🙂 There's still plenty of them flying around.

ChatGPT told me it was a Dc-10 or an MD-11 we'll see about that haha.

Whatever it's going to be rest is assured - it will certainly have nuts, fasteners and camlocs LOL