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As far as I know P3D Academic and Professional are identical products except of course the license with LM Aero. It should not effect your installs of PMDG products as I believe it is just looking for the install directories and makes a determination that way. Many of the beta testers have either version or even developer and I have never heard of an issue of what P3D you have other than the true version number. (i.e. P3D v1 / v2 / v3) Also know that RSR has posted that if you have v3 and v2 on that the "to be released" installers will only install to v3 and not v2. Jhan PS - I am impressed with your ethics! A lot of people will buy the Academic version and are not truly students.

Hi Eric, All PMDG base package installers will install independent of each other. Meaning you can install them in any order, obviously the addon (e.g. NGX base goes on before the -6700 addon) need to go on after the base product. Now also realize the installers will install to FSX period. Not FSX Steam Edition nor P3D. As a beta during the first part of the year, this got exercised heavily as we were doing NGX and 777 back and forth all of the time.

All, I have been reading there are several people having issues with FSX/FSX:SE in full screen and menus not showing up. I am one of them and I am wondering if it has something to do with DX9. I know this issue is hitting NVidia users but I am actually running Intel HD4000 (No snide remarks please as it has been working flawlessly in Win7). When I put FSX into DX10 Preview Mode the menus appear again without issue. PMDG does not really recommend using DX10 PM so I am not sure what I am going to do. I like Win10 performance and I have not had any major issues other than the menus. I have to just remember to go into Window mode. But I hate having to remember. I also use P3D and it does not have any issues. I think yes we need to let video card mfg know but I am not an expert on DX9 but I feel it is a Microsoft issue. Jhan

Hi, Sorry I'm a bit new using P3D. I know P3D extracts the Airline Callsigns from the aircraft.cfg's. Because there was a shift in how things got names between FSX and P3D, I have a lot of duplicate callsigns. For example: AMERICAN and American, DELTA and Delta. I am using v2.5 and wondering where are these callsigns being stored so I can fix them. I have fixed the offending .cfg but the duplicate callsign still shows up. Thanks, Jhan Jensen

Don't quote me on this but many years ago, RSR of PMDG said out of respect for LD they will not compete. Meaning no PMDG 767/757. I have no idea if that agreement translates to P3D or XP. Very much doubt that as slow as they are. I respect that LD is a group of people that loving craft their aircraft. I miss those days when everyday it seemed someone had a new aircraft to download. But LD 767X was never much more than a FS9 port. It is hard for me to fly after some of the newer addons I have bought in the past two years.

I know this is a long list, hopefully we will get some of them with the -300ER/-200ER. Air China - Red Phoenix, Blue Phoenix Japan Airlines - 30th Anniversary of Tokyo Disneyland (Happiness Direct) Malaysia Airlines - Heliconia Singapore Airlines - 50th Anniversary and my latest absolute favorite 777 livery... Air New Zealand's All Blacks livery WOW! (I know its for the -300 but would be cool even on a Yugo!)

Also are you setting your flaps and speed into the FMC? For me that corrected a lot of my overspeeds. You can also set your speed on the MCP, click the middle and set the speed and it will override the FMC unless it has a hard set speed. Usually better once you are closer to landing. The tutorial has a good example of all of this.

There will be a lot more liveries for the -300ER/-200ER as there are more real world operators. Also I know the 777 Paintkit has been made available and it won't be long a lot of fictional liveries will show up here on AVSIM. But I agree I like PMDG's paintjobs and JAL and ANA would have been nice.

It was an issue that was reported on the FSX Beta in 2006! And for the SP1 Beta and the Acceleration Beta that followed. Aces kept saying yeah they would fix it and never did. I get the airplane without the skin, kind of cool but yeah it is a FSX flaw.

Forget my banner at the bottom for a moment. As a beta I don't get told anything that isn't public knowlege, I come here to AVSIM to find out like the rest of you. RSR has stated that they learned a hard leason from the MD-11, it was a plane they wanted to do but not one many people seen or board on as a passenger. They are focusing on those planes that we see each and everytime you go to the airport. With that said, here is my guess and speculation. 707 - maybe in the lite line but not even likely 717 - did not sell well, probably sell as well as the MD-11 727 - maybe in the lite line 737 - NGs done, MAX not for a long time as it hasn't enter service. Classics all but gone from commerical service 747 - v2 coming soon to a PC near you, hoping true 747-8!!! 757 - reaching end of service as a passenger aircraft, also PMDG has stated won't do unless Level-D does not release theirs 767 - nope, will not compete with Level-D unless Level-D goes away 777 - ah read the news lately, she is lovely! 787 - only -8 out, still have to get data for -9 and the probable -10 (personally wanting this one bad!) Airbus - no to A300, A310 as no longer in general passenger service A320 - Aerosoft has a nice one on this, theirs from what I know is nice and so why compete A330 - Aerosoft kind of owns the Aibus series for FSX, but maybe but longshot IMHO A340 - See A330, longshot A350 - not even launched, see Boeing 787 A380 - PMDG has done big before, I feel this is a good maybe Those are my on my very high possibily list CRJ - Nobody has done a high def CRJ and they are EVERYWHERE. No to the CS series Dash 8 - maybe a good one for X-Plane, has been rumored forever ERJ - Embraer is also everywhere, E-Jets and the RJs Probably not but possible still ATR-72 - Already a decent one out there These are on my no way in hell list as most are not even in service yet MRJ - Mitsubishi has pushed this until the next century I believe COMSEC 919 - getting data impossible RRJ Superjet- Sukhoi works with Boeing, but again hard to get data MS 21 - Another russian bird but has not sold outside of Russia, CS candidate probably Business Jets - Hahahahaha no! Well those are my gueses. I would not hold anyone too them including me as I predicted PMDG would release the PMDG Paper Airplane for Microsoft Flight... Guess I was wrong. :huh:

No need, FSX is nearly 7 years old, It only uses one CPU core, and actually does ok now with middle of the road equipment. Now of course if you want spend the $3000, but get a great GPU card and large monitors so you can drool on the awsome cockpit!

What would you say if it was 777GB? JUST KIDDING! I know the first time I downloaded it, much like how many you will feel soon. It did not matter the size, I just wanted it DOWNLOADED! I have not checked but there is a contest on the release date which I am sure someone with the name RSR will win. But wonder if anyone has a file size contest yet.

RSR said "best PMDG product ever". Hmmmm Absolutely! This is from a diehard 747 fanatic. She is an absolute joy to fly, if you respect her. She demands you understand her, she isn't like her little brother (NGX) or big sister (747X). Forgiving, yes but not if you make assumptions. In other words, read read read. She is long, can't imagine the -300ER yet. Her power plants are huge and take time to build thrust, or bleed off speed. Just remember the opening of one of her GE90s are about the same diameter of a 737's body! Some of the systems are not the same as other Boeing's, BETTER but there are some differences. Ok back to some final testing!

I vote for Forward Product Development.

Hey Rob, I am not sure I like the name WIDE next to Beta Team. Feels like it makes my butt look big. :Big Grin: Everyone else, one word... WOW! (It won't disappoint) Ok back to the trenches to find those left articulated polygons that should have been right perplexed polygons instead.