7 hours ago, DAD said:

the EFB is excellent. for sure not as simplistic as the probably real one before but yet a blast for a casual simmer like me. Def better than the PMDG approach to crank everything in 15 pages in the FMC. And honestly even better than the Toliss 340 where I always have to think what "enabled" means and whether I clicked and submitted something or not.

Just did not figure out how to use the remote EFB on my iPad. A blank / black page loads in Chrome, header says iFly EFB but yet no content shown. I added the 8084 port to the firewall, Fenix EFB works on port 8085 but the iFly remains black. no deal breaker and for sure something on my side. Unless - yes I did now RTFM - it only works with Safari?

Yep. Simplicity is my middle name. I have no interest in pretending that I am a real pilot. And neither do 99% of folk who use this sim. All I want is the believable illusion of the real world.

Edited 13 hours ago13 hr by jarmstro

1 minute ago, jarmstro said:

Yep. Simplicity is my middle name. I have no interest in pretending that I am a real pilot. And neither do 99% of folk who use this sim. All I want is illusion of the real world.

Yeah, illusion is a right word and I fully accept it. Hate "immersion" term that marketing people created. :-)

6 hours ago, Claudius_ said:

I like to fly at night, but I find that the landing, taxi, strobe, and beacon lights are way too exaggerated. The landing and taxi lights in particular are creating a sort of white haze in front of the windscreen, without clouds in the sky. When closing in on the runway for landing, the glare is a bit less bothersome, but it's still totally unrealistic. Also, seeing the strobe lights flashing intensely on my sides from the cockpit makes the flight experience feel completely unrealistic. The same goes for the beacon light, but that is only visible from the external view or if you go into the cabin.

I selected "fail operational," and the airplane approaches the runway correctly. However, after touchdown, it behaves like a "fail passive" autoland system because it is unable to keep the aircraft on the centerline, or the corrections it makes to stay on the centerline are too late. My best autoland experience so far has been with the MD-11.

Banking autopilot problem:
Something like a "bouncing" effect frequently occurs at the end of a bank. When flying manually, you have to be very careful with the yoke during banking, because an 80‑ton airplane should not bounce or stopping abruptly at the end of the bank. The Fenix A320 had this problem too, but the devs fixed it, fortunately.

I got some replies from their Discord: they know the esaggerated lights problem, it's a port consequence from FS20 to FS24, it will be fixed when a native version of the B38m will be available.

Regarding the bounces banking problem they are asking me a video, but this can easily verified testing their airplane and comparing it with other airplanes. Fenix had this problem too and they fixed it.

Regarding the ILS fail operational problem, they are aware.

Edited 12 hours ago12 hr by Claudius_

11 minutes ago, G-YMML1 said:

Yeah, illusion is a right word and I fully accept it. Hate "immersion" term that marketing people created. :-)

I've got into trouble before but I'll say it again. I just can't understand why real world pilots would want to come home from work and fire up MSFS and expect it to be exactly like their job. In fact I can't understand why anyone is so obsessed with their job that they would want it on their PC? But hey-ho.😀

5 minutes ago, jarmstro said:

I've got into trouble before but I'll say it again. I just can't understand why real world pilots would want to come home from work and fire up MSFS and expect it to be exactly like their job. In fact I can't understand why anyone is so obsessed with their job that they would want it on their PC? But hey-ho.😀

I’ll bite..

I grew up on Flightsim, since I was 8 in fact. I’m a captain on the 737 in US. Playing Flightsim is a part of life. Do I have desires to fly the same plane on Flightsim? No, not really. Feels to much like work. However I do have the desire to fly other planes in the same context as my job. Do I want to have it be exactly like my job? No lol but being close would be nice. i enjoy flying like my job because on Flightsim i can do what i want, when i want with the if difference of not being regulated by the FAA. I don’t play on vatsim…i just do my own things without ATC.

I see your point but your arrogance is a bit much. I wouldn’t call someone obsessed just because they enjoy what they do in the real world and want to experience it in a much less regulated way. I mean, I can have a beer while I fly in Flightsim. Obviously can’t do that in the real world.

Also, your statement about 99% of people don’t pretend to be pilots is odd. Everyone plays this game that is explicitly about being a pilot and flying planes and other things. Do you use it to walk around on the ground and drive cars or something?

14 minutes ago, jarmstro said:

In fact I can't understand why anyone is so obsessed with their job that they would want it on their PC

Diversity, homie. Can’t take a 777 for a low and slow flight through Idaho. Don’t have the time or money to get every type rating out there or fly to interesting places whenever, in whatever weather. Flying is fun. Most jobs are boring. Careful not to yuck someone’s yum.

22 minutes ago, ahsmatt7 said:

I’ll bite..

I grew up on Flightsim, since I was 8 in fact. I’m a captain on the 737 in US. Playing Flightsim is a part of life. Do I have desires to fly the same plane on Flightsim? No, not really. Feels to much like work. However I do have the desire to fly other planes in the same context as my job. Do I want to have it be exactly like my job? No lol but being close would be nice. i enjoy flying like my job because on Flightsim i can do what i want, when i want with the if difference of not being regulated by the FAA. I don’t play on vatsim…i just do my own things without ATC.

I see your point but your arrogance is a bit much. I wouldn’t call someone obsessed just because they enjoy what they do in the real world and want to experience it in a much less regulated way. I mean, I can have a beer while I fly in Flightsim. Obviously can’t do that in the real world.

Also, your statement about 99% of people don’t pretend to be pilots is odd. Everyone plays this game that is explicitly about being a pilot and flying planes and other things. Do you use it to walk around on the ground and drive cars or something?

Well the new iFly EFB suits me, as a simmer, just fine.

Edited 12 hours ago12 hr by jarmstro

I like the new model and it flies really well. Really like the update except I am getting a CTD pretty much on the clock at the 2.5 hour mark. This is FS2024 and I heard of some issues in FS2024 so hopefully its a known issue and be fixed in an update.

Also some new news on the Max 9 would be nice. In the US market the Max 9 is where it's mostly at except on some thinner long range routes in many cases. SWA being the exception flying Max 8 exclusively.

11 minutes ago, longhaul747 said:

Also some new news on the Max 9 would be nice. In the US market the Max 9 is where it's mostly at except on some thinner long range routes in many cases. SWA being the exception flying Max 8 exclusively.

iFly’s current plan after SP1 in regards to future MAX products:

1. To focus on MSFS 2024 native development only, taking advantage of all new technologies included in MSFS 2024 at that time.,

2. Development of the MAX 9 (MSFS 2024).,

3. Consideration of the MAX 10 and MAX 7 (only upon official certification and placement into service of these types).

On 6/14/2026 at 4:46 PM, Bigmack said:

The joke is you. You clearly didn't follow installation instructions. It's running fine here and after the last livery update, all is golden. Instead of making moronic statements, why don't you try some constructive criticism like everyone else. What a caveman statement.

Installation settings won't magically code a missing CPDLC, fix a broken ACARS, or resolve known code inconsistencies in the experimental MSFS 2024 build. Good for you that it runs fine on your old 2080Ti, but white-knighting for a rushed SP1 and calling other community members 'cavemen' doesn't change the facts or the bugs mentioned in the documentation itself.

On 6/14/2026 at 2:19 PM, MassiveSim32_Jase said:

It's a you problem mate. I followed the installation guide step by step and I couldn't be happier with performance and all the new fetures.

An installation guide doesn't magically add missing features like CPDLC or fix officially documented experimental build issues. Glad you're happy with your 'fetures', but personal satisfaction doesn't change the reality of an incomplete service pack.

3 minutes ago, MariuszKr said:

Installation settings won't magically code a missing CPDLC, fix a broken ACARS, or resolve known code inconsistencies in the experimental MSFS 2024 build. Good for you that it runs fine on your old 2080Ti, but white-knighting for a rushed SP1 and calling other community members 'cavemen' doesn't change the facts or the bugs mentioned in the documentation itself.

Well you were talking about performance mostly, weren't you? This is indeed caused by one of two things:
1) not following installation instructions
2) starting the plugin manually instead of automatically with the xml.exe

I've seen a lot of "rushed" updates of all kind, but that one definitely isn't. They took a looooong time and it has a lot of issues fixed, features added etc. and it very polished as far as I can see from the couple of flights.

And what do you mean by broken ACARS? There's no ACARS of any kind and there never has been on the iFly 737.

On 6/14/2026 at 2:09 PM, JYW said:

Nonsense.... you're almost certainly either using an old (non-supported) livery, or you haven't installed correctly, according to the SP1 instructions.

But rather than investigate your mistakes, it is of course "a terrible update" 😄

Blaming a livery won't magically bring back missing features like CPDLC or fix documented bugs in this experimental build. Good for you that you are in 'GA mode' and don't care about missing airliner systems, but trying to gaslight others about a clearly rushed service pack is just pathetic.

2 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

Well you were talking about performance mostly, weren't you? This is indeed caused by one of two things:
1) not following installation instructions
2) starting the plugin manually instead of automatically with the xml.exe

I've seen a lot of "rushed" updates of all kind, but that one definitely isn't. They took a looooong time and it has a lot of issues fixed, features added etc. and it very polished as far as I can see from the couple of flights.

And what do you mean by broken ACARS? There's no ACARS of any kind and there never has been on the iFly 737.

The point stands whether you semantics-check ACARS or not. My original post was about dropped promises like CPDLC and the fact that iFly literally labeled this MSFS 2024 build as 'Experimental'. If it was so 'polished' and took a 'looooong time', they wouldn't need to put an experimental warning on it. A couple of smooth flights on your end doesn't wipe out the cut features and official limitations.

On 6/14/2026 at 12:18 PM, jcomm said:

Well, for me it's working beautifully, I don't use CPDLC so I can't comment on it, but the new EFB is very well done and easy to use, the performance os great so far, and in all honesty I can't even cobsider this first release inferior to the PMDG 737-700 I also own...

Very satisfied customer here 👍👍👍

Good for you that you don't care about CPDLC and that the new EFB satisfies your needs. However, the fact that you don't use certain systems doesn't mean they shouldn't be fully implemented as promised. Personal satisfaction with basic features doesn't change the reality of what was cut from this update.