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Flying EK221 OMDB-KDFW We took off from OMDB @ 02:45 LT, saw a sunrise somewhere over the Caspian Sea then continued north crossing Russia to the Barents Sea, then the island of Svalbard, only to cross Greenland to head south for Canada to see the sunrise - AGAIN! :rolleyes: We could actually outrun the sunrise while flying up north. Marvellous!

Enroute KSFO-OMDB as EK226. Currently watching sunrise with the Moon over icy Greenland. 6:32 into the flight, still have around nine more to go. Gonna see a sunset too before we land!

Well, the NGX has been released around August 2011. It took around 2 years to release the 777 base package afterwards. I'd say don't hold your breath. $55 on the 747 v1 will keep you happy and flying the Queen for another 2 years. Sounds pretty reasonable to me but then again, it's your budget. Cheers,

For anyone having the same issue: after submitting a ticket to PMDG support team, the issue was sorted out without any hassle within hours. Very nice support, indeed! Cheers,

Same here too with the 777. I opened a ticket immediately, let's hope it gets solved quickly as I see it's not a standalone issue so I hope the team already has a standard workaround. I wonder if it has been solved for you guys already? Cheers,

The NGX has been released (base package) a little over 2 years ago. The team said around that time that the development of the 777 is foreseen to take considerably less time than it took for the NGX as a good portion of the techniques created for the NGX development can be used for the 777 too. My daughter was born around NGX release day. She walks, runs, talks, draws, counts to ten and understands basic jokes now - imagine how much effort went into all this from her in the past two years. She'll also show you where the wings, the engines, wheels or landing lights are on a plane and she would also tell you the color of the plane she sees. Now imagine that PMDG has been working on a 777 all this time.

I was literally pushing my key combos for pan/zoom in VC view while I was looking at these pictures :lol: Gave me the best laughs in a while! Cheers,

Having read through (not completely, though!) this forum I can not say I'm sure of course. FMS would be nice as a pop-up as you say, and we'll probably get the DU's as well, yet I recall a post by Robert stating that the 777 will come with 'only' a VC, without a set of 2D panels as such. It made me think for a while: what if at some point in the future, Rob would say that the next plane would come with only its own sim platform, without any support for FSX, as such. A complete sim platform made by PMDG to PMDG standards. It would also take decades to release I'm sure! :rolleyes: (no offense guys, love your work and attitude!) Cheers,

To all, especially to those still in debate about the VC... I've been flying the NG in FS9 from just about the day it was released, but from the week for sure. I've spent thousands of hours learning the 'glass cockpit' and then flying for various virtual airlines and for fun as well. It was much easier for me to do all flying using the 2D cockpit since I was using a rather small monitor at that time plus it was fairly easy to just flip and switch on pop-up panels as - let's be honest - the whole sim comes in 2D when you're only looking at a flat monitor in your room. I've always been curious about how it feels to do it all from a virtual cockpit but none of the products at that time could even come close to twist my senses enough, the immersion of reality was completely missing. I've bought the NGX the day it was released. Took a fairly long time wandering around in the VC and I was absolutely blown away with the detail. Yet, I was already used to 2D panels so much that I never gave up using them in the past 1.5 years (can you believe it's been released for such a long time?). But today I decided to do a couple of hand-flying training hops around Renton, using the VC. I will never fly using 2D panels anymore. Never. The massive immersion of reality is off-the-charts. I could go on about the small tells of a used cockpit, the sheer detail you get about every inch when you zoom in closely on anything or that every switch, knob or lever mimics the three-dimensional accurate movement of its real world counterpart when moved. I could praise the HGS until dawn, could applause the true-to-life original fonts on the displays and I could honestly bow PMDG about the setup of the aircraft instantly taking effect in/on the model without ever needing to restart FSX (the different cockpit layouts, MCP's, eyebrow windows and what not). But I'm not going into that. I'm just simply joining the group of VC-converted simmers and do really not worry about the lack of 2D panels in the upcoming 777 anymore. Hats off PMDG, you've given us a truly magnificent virtual replica of the original aircraft, something that has never before seen, something that I've been dreaming about since I was a little kid 'flying' the F-14 on a Commodore. Money well spent, indeed! PS: I know numerous topics exist in this forum about the very same topic and that it might raise yet another irritating thread about the pros and cons of both the VC and 2D panels. My intentions were only to share my amazement about the NGX and hope that the topic remains in this channel! Cheers,

G-YMMF, San Diego's very own BA772. EGKK-KSAN & back.

Although not a 777, here's a go-around video of a Lufthansa 744 at KJFK. Go-around is initiated extremely late (at around 3 minutes into the video). Gotta love the sound of those GE's! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzTip4_aFW0&list=FL9V7bxt00GEZiETnx_G118A&index=5&feature=plpp_video Cheers,

After a brief research I've found that the following airlines operate both the 738 and the 773 in their fleet: All Nippon, Japan Airlines, Korean Air, Turkish Airlines, Air India, Air China, Egyptair, KLM, Virgin Australia, Air Austral (not sure..), Jet Airways, Biman Bangladesh Airlines. Seems like only Turkish and KLM operate both in Europe and noone does in the USA. Is this list correct or are there maybe others operating both? Cheers,

I'd love to see a complete standalone FS platform developed by PMDG.

I just don't see why all the textures and mesh and who knows what else is needed to sit on my computer when I hardly ever use more than say 30% of it. And then it needs to be updated regularly.I was really hoping for an online satellite image coverage for a truly next-gen sim, something similar to a project that's been around since the FS9 era and is called tileproxy.It pulls the relevant satellite image of where you are from a choice of online satellite image providers and then lays it down to the mesh you are using. Can't get any more realistic, really.Until a sim comes that does this for images and mesh, I will not consider any new iterations of FSX or Xplane to be next-gen.

Just went for a quick hop to try and see how high she can fly. Eventually I managed to grab FL500 with LVLCH set @.78MOf course, with a ZFW of 91,3 and about 8,000 lbs of fuel.

When something breaks down in your car and your first thought is to clear the failure on the CDU...

Search the document called "PMDG-NGX-FCOMv1.pdf" for "anti-ice". There's all the information you need. A whole lot of information to get through.Don't suspect it's as simple as ON below 0C though.. Cheers,

+1!

Last time on a flight I came to the strange situation @ FL350 where pack temps were around 20C, FWD and CONT CAB temp was around that too while AFT temp was a little over 40C. All switches on AUTO, PACKs on, TRIM AIR on, RECIRC fans on. TAT was around -10C. Just don't get what's happening even after reading the FCOM. The way I understand is if the PACK temperatures are around 20C then FWD and AFT cabin temperatures should not be much higher. Can anyone enlighten me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks,

Did you notice that when you retract a non-rotating wheel (eg. extended in the air), the sound isn't there?! Pretty neat.Cheers,

Again, for a runway that has an ILS, you can enter the ILS runway identifier into the FIX page.For Budapest Airport, Hungary (LHBP), the identifier of 31R is 'BPR'.When you enter BPR in the scratchpad and line select it into LSK 1L, the FMC presents you with two choices, one being the ILSDME (which is right about the threshold) and the other the ILS itself, which is of course a little further down the runway. When you select the ILSDME option, you have yourself a FIX right at the threshold. Not sure about runways without an ILS though. Cheers,

The FCOMv2 (11.42.57, page 1071 in the pdf) says: "Valid entries are airports, navaids, waypoints or runway identifiers from the navigation database." Have you tried to put the identifier code of the runway into the fix page? Entering a simple "RW34" might not include enough info for the FMC to identify the FIX you're looking for.

Maybe there isn't one in the real thing either..! :D Cheers,

You can always use keys for the throttle cutoff switches. By default it is CTRL-F2 and CTRL-F4 for the idle position and CTRL-F1 and CTRL-F3 for cutoff on ENG1 & ENG2 respectively. These are default key combinations that come with a clean installation of the NGX. Again, you can always change these and all other key combos in the CDU's PMDG setup area. In the mean time, I still haven't figured out how I could read the current stab trim setting without going to the VC. No big deal, just still wondering. Breathtaking sim, by the way! PMDG should consider developing a whole flightsim engine instead of FSX or what not. But then, it might take 10 years to complete! Cheers,

I'm not a RW pilot myself, but use checklists regularly at my work. A checklist is not a to-do list! To-do lists often consists of steps needed to be done in order to get to a point while checklists are always used after you've gotten to a certain point to _check_ if you've done everything needed to be done. At least that's how we use lists in project planning/management and I assume this is not too much different in aeronautics. Though, do correct me if I'm wrong! Cheers,