34 minutes ago, pcartier1960 said:

Is anyone else seeing this?
When I run the IFly Manager, it says there’s an update available and directs me to IFly’s website to download it. After downloading and running the installer, the Manager still tells me it needs to be updated, and the cycle repeats.

Has anyone found a fix for this loop?

Yeah, I had that., but it did not loop. Ran the installer, then the update. No loop however.

Guess its not really a loop. I just cant install the update because when I download the lastest version and run it, it then prompts and say's I need to download the latest version which I just did. 

I am thinking I am just downloading the same installer on their page.

Here is the version it keeps installing "iFlyManagerSetup_v40.exe" from https://manager.flight1.net/

1 minute ago, pcartier1960 said:

Here is the version it keeps installing "iFlyManagerSetup_v40.exe" from https://manager.flight1.net/

Found the problem, my page was cached and downloading the same one, I switched browsers and it install the correct version

Installed this update earlier today but have not checked it myself - in the list I can see "Throttle bug on departure", I'm wondering if that is the fix for throttle response on the plane, On the build before this - if you hit the TOGA switch, the thrust levers advance quite rapidly. I don't know if that is realistic behaviour, when I reported this on previous build, the developers claimed it was realistic behaviour but I don't think thrust levers would move that fast. 

Edited July 9, 2025Jul 9 by CAP1234

6 hours ago, CAP1234 said:

Installed this update earlier today but have not checked it myself - in the list I can see "Throttle bug on departure", I'm wondering if that is the fix for throttle response on the plane, On the build before this - if you hit the TOGA switch, the thrust levers advance quite rapidly. I don't know if that is realistic behaviour, when I reported this on previous build, the developers claimed it was realistic behaviour but I don't think thrust levers would move that fast. 

They stand up pretty quickly, maybe about 2 seconds from stable at 40% to takeoff power position.  The EECs are controlling rate of engine spool anyway; that thrust lever position is just a request, via a rheostat... It's not really controlling the engines.

On 7/8/2025 at 12:13 PM, Farlis said:

What speaks a bit against it for me personally even though I like flying it, is that I, as someone who exclusively flies his airliners on real world live operations, that the MAX is usually used for flights well above 2.5 hours length. 

In that regard I still wait for the NG's to be relased to finally get more oportunity to fly shorter routes and more sectors a day.

FWIW, I flew 64 a while back in a Max 8.  Four leg day, shortest sector between PSG - WRG less than 10 minutes in the air.  Hard to get too much shorter 😉.

Any airline that operates both NGs and Maxs will fly any airplane on any route for a variety of reasons.  Efficiency is one important reason, and the extra efficiency of the Max family is more valuable on longer routes - but it's still just one reason of many.  Repositioning the aircraft for downstream flights, for scheduled MX, swapping it into a shorter domestic trip because an MEL took it out of ETOPs status so it couldn't go to Hawaii... Etc.  There is no shortage of Maxs flying sub two hour stage lengths.  So no need to let that limit you 😉.

The problem is probably the neck of the woods of the world I do my flying in. I'm a central european flyer and as such I have to see who operates the MAX anyway.

The biggest operator is Rynair, followed by TUI. TUI does mid range to short long haul holiday flights, Ryanair operates the max on their longer routes.

That's what I'm stuck with. Flying Alaska Airlines is not excatly my time zone. 😉

12 hours ago, Farlis said:

The problem is probably the neck of the woods of the world I do my flying in. I'm a central european flyer and as such I have to see who operates the MAX anyway.

The biggest operator is Rynair, followed by TUI. TUI does mid range to short long haul holiday flights, Ryanair operates the max on their longer routes.

That's what I'm stuck with. Flying Alaska Airlines is not excatly my time zone. 😉

But again, as Stearman Driver stated, airlines move jets around for multiple reasons, not just to focus the MAX's on long haul routes.   I think you would be on solid ground to use the MAX on shorter routes with any of the airlines you mentioned above.   Especially as more and more MAX's come into their fleets. 

I have FlightRadar 24 configured to show all Southwest Airlines Max 8 flights in the air at any given time, and there are plenty of shorter city pair legs of 1 to 1.75 hours duration. I realize this may not be of interest if you fly primarily in Europe.

Purchased and installed into MSFS 2024, wow, VERY impressed!  Performance (in terms of FPS) is excellent and the systems depth is well beyond my expectations for this price point (a bargain).  Plenty of liveries too.

Can someone show me where this new label for ZFW and CG is?

7 hours ago, JRBarrett said:

I have FlightRadar 24 configured to show all Southwest Airlines Max 8 flights in the air at any given time,

How do you do that? I only know that one can show the entire fleet of an airline in the air.

Press the “filters” icon at the bottom of the screen, (it looks like a funnel), then select “custom” from the menu that comes up. You can then define several parameters such as aircraft type (B38M) and airline (Southwest). Then save your custom filter set with a name of your choosing.

Again, this is for FlightRadar 24, not FlightAware. I have an FR24 account - I don’t know if that is required to define custom filters.