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PMDG's secret project? The 747-100!

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Haven't seen this posted here yet: The German-language flightsim news site cruiselevel.de has figured out what PMDG's secret project is: The 747-100.

https://cruiselevel.de/pmdg-goes-old-school/

Confirmed by Robert Randazzo on the PMDG forum. I hope there will be more information from PMDG on this soon. 

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    Personally, I do think there's a market for it. How many A320s and 737s do we need? Time to get into them classic liners and dig deeper into the learning curve. For me, the RFP 747 was a great experie

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    Not sure a 747-100 is going to be a big seller. For one it’s a 3 person cockpit with an insanely high workload for a single MSFS pilot and the demands of flying raw data is beyond the scope of most de

  • I am looking forward to this. I loved the RFP 747-200 back in the day. I am hoping it comes with an option for no GPS - just the CIVA 10-waypoint INS!

14 minutes ago, martinboehme said:

Haven't seen this posted here yet: The German-language flightsim news site cruiselevel.de has figured out what PMDG's secret project is: The 747-100.

https://cruiselevel.de/pmdg-goes-old-school/

Confirmed by Robert Randazzo on the PMDG forum. I hope there will be more information from PMDG on this soon. 

I have read the details in the PMDG forum and have seen Robert's responses.  It certainly looks like it but I am not sure if it can be 100% confirmed.  I can't tell if Robert is being sarcastic or serious on this one?  Earlier in one of the threads at the PMDG forum he said it was not a 747-200.  the 100 and 200 are pretty close externally so its hard to say!  

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Have to say, I find it hard to read this response from Robert as anything else than serious:

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Andreas- You just got yourself a complimentary copy of the soon-to-be-unveiled PMDG 747-100 Classic Whale. That was excellent work, and you are dead on correct with the item from the previous image! Nicely done! - RSR

Looks like sarcasm than anything else else from Rob ...

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I wonder if they picked up the unfinished Justflight 747 classic that's been heavily delayed since the launch of FS2020? 

 

 

 

2 hours ago, martinboehme said:

Haven't seen this posted here yet:

it was hidden in the other thread; I think not a lot saw it. 

 

2 hours ago, TopGun33 said:

Looks like sarcasm than anything else else from Rob ...

But the gauge (was it an altimeter?) matches that of the 747-100.  So with Randazzo acknowledging that it matches, I don't think he is being sarcastic. Randazzo gave the image as hint in the first place, and he knew that this particular image would be matched eventually by the community, which appears what has happened.

 

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2 hours ago, TopGun33 said:

Looks like sarcasm than anything else else from Rob ...

Don’t know about that, I was awarded a free copy of the original NGX back in the day and his response was extremely similar for me. Who knows though. 

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Not sure a 747-100 is going to be a big seller. For one it’s a 3 person cockpit with an insanely high workload for a single MSFS pilot and the demands of flying raw data is beyond the scope of most desktop pilots. Even when you see the likes of Flightdeck2sim in the steam gauge aircraft he is clearly at the limits of his capacity for much of the time, and he’s a real rated pilot.

There’s a reason that that the A320 family consistently ranks number one on Avsim and Volanta etc, and that’s simply because the high level of automation lends itself well to desktop simulation. 

4 hours ago, TopGun33 said:

Looks like sarcasm than anything else else from Rob ...

Odd. I don't see the slightest hint of sarcasm in what he said.

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36 minutes ago, bennyboy75 said:

Not sure a 747-100 is going to be a big seller. For one it’s a 3 person cockpit with an insanely high workload for a single MSFS pilot and the demands of flying raw data is beyond the scope of most desktop pilots. Even when you see the likes of Flightdeck2sim in the steam gauge aircraft he is clearly at the limits of his capacity for much of the time, and he’s a real rated pilot.

There’s a reason that that the A320 family consistently ranks number one on Avsim and Volanta etc, and that’s simply because the high level of automation lends itself well to desktop simulation. 

Personally, I do think there's a market for it. How many A320s and 737s do we need? Time to get into them classic liners and dig deeper into the learning curve. For me, the RFP 747 was a great experience back then, now having a classic 747 in a modern sim, is something I definitely look forward to. Its a breath of fresh air that the big companies are willing to take on some classics. 

As for the workload, engineers panel can be automated as other products and product lines have shown. I have no doubt just like the DC-6, the workload will be shared between user and virtual crew. 

You don't promise a free copy of anything "sarcastically".  Randazzo is obviously 100% serious and I'm not sure why anyone would think otherwise.

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