I spent all day with this aircraft, and I have to say, I am not impressed after flying the PMDG 737 for years. The EFB is a jumble of menus,whereas the PMDG is beyond simple. The autothrottle is  the worst of any aircraft I have ever flown in a sim. I had an overspeed at cruise at FL200, then on Vnav descent, it almost went into a stall at 170 knots. Not the kind of aircraft that you can relax while flying and look away for a few minutes.  Very disappointed frankly. It won't follow the speeds set in the FMC at all. Have to handfly the approach like it was a Cessna.. LOL.. as far as speeds go.  I doubt if I will spend much time flying this, especially on APLV2, where you get docked for overspeeds and stalls. . 

There’s nothing wrong with the ifly7, I’ve been flying it for 2 months without any issues… very very stable aircraft, I don’t understand why your having problems… funny how one plane works for one person and not for the other … sorry your having issues with it… it’s a fantastic immersive add on … 

PEBKAC. 

Nothing wrong with the plane, you just need to learn how to use it. 

1 minute ago, Captaintull said:

There’s nothing wrong with the ifly7, I’ve been flying it for 2 months without any issues… very very stable aircraft, I don’t understand why your having problems… funny how one plane works for one person and not for the other … sorry your having issues with it… it’s a fantastic immersive add on … 

Well I just flew an approach into KSAT and the airspeed with AT on and 30 degrees of flaps was going between 134 and 155 knots, below 1700 AGL. Like riding a roller coaster, so the autothrottle is useless. With the PMDG, the airspeed stays within 1 or two knots. I probaably have over 5,000 hours at least in PMDG 737, and this aircraft doesn't measure up in my opinion. 

2 minutes ago, JonathanC said:

Nothing wrong with the plane, you just need to learn how to use it. 

OH please, I can fly a 737 blindfolded. When the autothrottle can't control speed, and the speed indication is bouncing all over the place, that isn't acceptable. But the shades in the cabin are nice. 😉

Edited January 27, 20251 yr by Bobsk8

Just now, Bobsk8 said:

OH please, I can fly a 737 blindfolded.

Ok. You should stick to PMDG then. No big deal if you can’t learn something new, lots of people have trouble with that. 

Stick to the pmdg

3 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

Well I just flew an approach into KSAT and the airspeed with AT on and 30 degrees of flaps was going between 134 and 155 knots, below 1700 AGL. Like riding a roller coaster, so the autothrottle is useless. With the PMDG, the airspeed stays within 1 or two knots. I probaably have over 5,000 hours at least in PMDG 737, and this aircraft doesn't measure up in my opinion. 

Did you configure the AT lock to partial, always or none in the EFB?

ifly has configurable way with how AT interacts with your physical throttle as described in the manuals

I have not experienced any of those issues with the ifly. Wonder if it’s a throttle binding conflict.

4 minutes ago, Lucky38i said:

ifly has configurable way with how AT interacts with your physical throttle as described in the manuals

Do you take Bob for the kind of simmer who reads a manual before using a new add on? 😉

4 hours ago, Farlis said:

 

Edited January 28, 20251 yr by JonathanC

11 minutes ago, Lucky38i said:

Did you configure the AT lock to partial, always or none in the EFB?

ifly has configurable way with how AT interacts with your physical throttle as described in the manuals

Forgot to do that, will set it to none and try another flight.

I agree the EFB is annoying (but apparently accurate to a Boeing EFB).  I’ve not had speed management issues as described here.

Sure the EFB takes a bit of a learning curve when you are used to how other addons do it but apart from that the iFly 737 MAX is a dream to fly.