Steve Dra

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PMDG is currently tracking some issues similar to what you're reporting. When you reported, did you include what version of the 777 you're on? Also...do you use Navigraph and is its MSFS app installed in your MSFS? And are you using the Store version, Marketplace or Steam version?

Sorry...but you don't need them now....just uploaded it to flightsim.to 🙂 Click the link in my sig to grab her....and I just uploaded BA too

Hope you'll like her...she is one of my favorites. 🙂

Good timing....just finished Air Canada Toothpaste....will upload to flightsim.to and should be ready for you guys when you get her installed. More to follow as I get them done....

Thanks my friend....Like Dave..no excuses except life getting in the way of simming. Maybe I need to paint you both a 737 and 777 now that I've pushed it back so far? Well...you know I've been busy. I appreciate the mention and hope you enjoy my paints.

Now you guys stop interrupting me with all these nice comments...you know...ones I feel motivated to reply to...not most of the posts PMDG threads seem to attract. I have 10 doors to re-do...among other touchups! Just kidding....reply away...but if I don't reply in a timely manner, you know what I'm doing (what else would I be doing?, LOL)

Thanks my friend. Long time Rob....no excuses except life outside simming/painting always gets in the way...you ALL know what I mean. Hope you pick up some paints with her....there are a LOT out there. 😉

No worries Mate. Been doing it a while...and you've been supporting me from the beginning, and I honestly appreciate folks like you who take a few secs to acknowledge us freeware painters who give our creations to the community without cost. 😉 Plus I like painting when I know like-minded folks will get enjoyment out of them. And don't think I forgot about your crazy Canuks....This one is being updated right now and roll out to flightsim.to next. I just hope I can get it done today (I think I will...had to update the doors, all TEN of them!) And this one is in the hopper....but a ways back because it has gold replication issues (its HARD to create that gold effect, and get it close, trust me) Check you PM Dave. 😉😉

Not sure when you guys will get her....but this one is already on flightsim.to for your downloading pleasure (click the link in my sig to get to my flightsim.to page). More to follow when I get time. Unfortunately this release came at a bad time in my life, so I can't focus on push out the liveries as quickly as I had hoped, but they are coming! Here are the liveries I have just about done....All I need is time.

Taver's WIP paint...

Thanks...and I agree. You can't please everyone, and you never will. And since you asked.... Have many more...but don't want to flood the post. I'll will have all these paints completed and uploaded as soon as I can. Some will be ready on release, others as soon as I can get them finalized and uploaded.

That's also going to be my challenge when the 777 releases. Can't stand that flightsim.to does not give established contributors a faster way to upload content. I think there used to be a ways to pre-load them and unlink the "on-line" option so you could upload them prior to a release then just activate them when the release happens.

Here is a kind suggestion: If you're the spokesperson for a major publisher that is very close to a major release that simmers are crazy for...it is not wise to post the word "published" (or any form of the word) in any of your comms until that word is directly referring to the airplane. 🙂 I bet if you look at your web stats....there was a huge spike from thousands of IPs shortly after your post here. Sure...we "read" the post....but mostly up to that word...then ALT-Tab'd to a new window and hit the Duke site. 😁 Simmers.....we're an impatient bunch (and interpret what we want from official posts....just ask anyone who's been in a PMDG thread here)🤔.

The fuel type for one thing. 😉

Very true. The issue with MS/Asobo's "Beta" where they invite the entire community to opt-in to get a beta copy of the current beta build... is anything but an actual beta program. They certainly have an actual beta team (let's hope so anyway) where testers are methodically testing issues using both industry-accepted workflows and dedicated bug-tracking software to properly inform the development team of verified, validated and actual bugs. The public beta we all refer to is just a marketing ploy mostly to push out a pre-release to the masses and let sheer numbers determine if a bug, that only manifests in such conditions (thousands of simmers all hitting it at once)..will pop up so they can pull it back and say "Oopsi...we made a boo boo, we're delaying it now until xx/xx/xxxx." It is not an end-to-end beta program by any means...just one component of it (the last one as it were). Generally speaking this is actually a good thing, with the sheer size of the whole simming environment...to have as your final pre-release "beta test" before actually putting it out, and discovering that you royally messed up afterwards.

Wow....classic 1 step forward and 2 steps back scenario. I'm pretty sure that they won't release it with this performance degradation and scenery tile problem (amazing how they can't seem to reliably nail that down). At least, let's hope they just don't throw up their hands and say "Here it is, take it or leave it.....you'll be getting 2024 soon™ anyway." 😐 Trust me....I know how frustrating beta testing can be when you have a big set back from one build to the next. 🤔

I'll check that out Bob, thanks.

I'll pass....great plane, but prefer the Spit. Now....throw a Typhoon my way and I'm all over it. Love the big radiator up front...makes it look...menacing.

One reason I turn it off is when I fly into/out of KDFW in Dallas. If you don't...besides the scenery looking terrible, you're in for a big surprise on the runway... where you'll be flipped on your back when you hit it. Shocks me that they have not fixed this yet. I generally leave it on other places.

I hear the 777F will be after the initial 777-300ER release, but not 100% sure. And If I was, I don't have official authority to confirm that (If RSR mentioned it publicly in the past, then that is the word for now)

For me...one of the last MAJORS to grace our sims....Now if we could get someone to do KDFW, KATL, and FlightBeam would release KSFO...I'm outta' MAJORS that I'll need for simming nirvana. 🙂 Looks stunning and is a day one purchase for me...Maybe I'll be able to do Lufthansa Cargo flights out of her....with the MD-11F....and 777F?

There, there. If fact...we can go everywhere in MSFS. 🙂 I've visited all my childhood homes in MSFS and the level of detail in each of them is astounding for as obscure some of them are. Best time to be a simmer no doubt.

I'm pretty sure its related to the tight grip the Empire has on all the system's throats. We're all uptight because you guys area bunch of meanies and won't let us buy cool virtual planes in MSFS without your incredibly high Empire tax. If you'd just tap that down a bit, Fenix could sell the A320 for $3.26 and all your puny subjects wouldn't bicker so much between them. I understand the cost of rebuilding the Death Star was enormous, but you should really blame Darth's snot-nosed little brat for that. Had he not bulls-eyed Womp Rats on Tatooine as a rebellious youth...with no real father to guide him in the ways of the Dark Side...we'd not be in this mess, right? But Nooooooo...Aitkin was too busy dominating the universe to stop by Tatooine every so often to check in with his kid. Seems all of the hate and discontent could have been avoided if you're boss had just been there for his boy, me 'tinks. Da' Empire is mui mui bad Juju, fo' shoooo