14 hours ago, jon b said:

I’ve been waiting for so long for the 747-400 to make it to MSFS my real world 747 type rating will expire in 6 months.

I doubt it’ll be here before then so the only way to get a refresh will mean going back and flying it in P3D, if I decide to do a check ride and re validate it

You prepare for a type rating check ride with P3D/MSFS????

Yep, the traditional method of preparation was to sit in a chair and play out the manoeuvres in your head, so called “armchair flying”

Believe me an accurate simulation and a VR headset is off the scale in comparison.

Very interesting, the shot through the cockpit windows from 3dsMax shows they're accurately representing N747NA (an airframe I'm quite familiar with, which has many 'one off' modifications to the panels and surrounds). So this looks like a 747SP of sorts! Exciting!

Omg... it's the very first 747 ever built- 747-121 / N7470 "City of Everett".

Being on display in the Museum of Flight, it would lend itself beautifully for the laser scanning that was mentioned.

https://www.museumofflight.org/exhibits-and-events/aircraft/boeing-747-121

Edited October 5, 20241 yr by skully

If we get a classic 747 I’ll be very happy! Fingers crossed

Who was it back in the day that did a phenomenal classic 747?  May have been FS9?  Gosh, I can remember so many details about that plane but not the developer?

Anyone remember? 

Ready for pushback, or something like that ?

16 hours ago, DavidP said:

You prepare for a type rating check ride with P3D/MSFS????

Why wouldn't you? The procedures are the same. You just shouldn't try to train yourself on the performance and the way the aircraft handle in the sim. But the systems are true to the real world, so there is no reason to not use the sim as a training tool.

30 minutes ago, jon b said:

Ready for pushback, or something like that ?

Yes!!

Thank you!  Exactly as I remembered! 

 

I think I still have the box in my loft somewhere.

Seemingly confirmed the secret project is a 747-100?

https://forum.pmdg.com/forum/main-forum/general-discussion-news-and-announcements/330077-04oct24-so-what-is-going-at-pmdg/page3#post330279

I still have my RFP 747 case and user manual, time to dig that one out 🤣

Looks like the aircraft manufacturer they were referring to is Boeing. 
“Once we finish what we are doing for Boeing, our 737 team will be able to get back to our product retail product line”

Edited October 6, 20241 yr by Wise87

4 hours ago, Farlis said:

But the systems are true to the real world, so there is no reason to not use the sim as a training tool.

Ehh... The systems are CLOSE but they certainly aren't "true", especially as you get into the abnormal realm.  Anyone who's conducted much training in level D sims is familiar with occasionally having to use a workaround to keep the scenario realistic for the crew, because of a "sim-ism" that would deviate in small ways from the real airplane.  It doesn't happen too often in that world, but if you can't trust a multi-million dollar certified device to be perfectly "true" to the real world, sincere caution is needed in trusting a sub-$100 piece of entertainment software. 

I'm not saying you can't learn from desktop sims, and for practicing flows and normal procedures they're good.  But, especially if someone is new to the plane and learning it in an initial qual course (or refreshing knowledge they've forgotten and are re-learning), there is a genuine threat of negative training.  A person needs to know the plane well enough to know if what they're seeing is correct.

6 hours ago, Andrew2448 said:

Seemingly confirmed the secret project is a 747-100?

https://forum.pmdg.com/forum/main-forum/general-discussion-news-and-announcements/330077-04oct24-so-what-is-going-at-pmdg/page3#post330279

That's one low key announcement!!! it does fit the new "product line" ; classic whale. 

I love the steam gauge airliner, but in true flightsim community fashion; Why not go for the 747-200? even though the -100 is the OG, there were way more -200's flying around.