JaneRachel

just catching up on all the mails, before I post more screenshots, as I push back from Sydney to Fiji. Someone asked about offpath descents, yes it is fully functional.

I am a bit quiet tonight as I have domestic stuff to do, but will be in there air tomorrow and sharing more info and screens as I cruise. I would just like to thank you all for responding to us testers so positively and courteously with your questions. We are all enjoying sharing info with you!

Hey Kacper, yes you can. It still works even if you resize the popout with dragging it larger with the mouse

all the performance figures are entirely accurate yes

there you go guys, straight from the horses mouth! thanks Armen not calling you a horse or anything incidentally

interestingly, the 777 refuses to pushback when on the chocks, either using AES or the CDU pushback. I was sat at SFO yesterday wondering why the pushback tug guy was just sitting there with AES when I suddenly realised I had left the chocks in place!

I am messing around with "non Normal" situations today and really love the mass of checklists available on the ECL. The non-normal have 16 categories, with multiple checklists in each category. There are an awful lot there, pretty much one for every occasion you never want to see happen!

Answer B is the winner. It really impressed me first time I noticed it!

It sounds fantastic, both internally and externally. You are not always going to get the same sound effect either, depending on how you land the aircraft and conditions. You could spend all day flying circuits and see variation in the landing sound on every touchdown!

some of the fine detail on the wing

freighter on a single engine climbout from EGCC Manchester

the shot with the setting sun is just fantastic!

the fly by wire will let you do pretty much what you want, that is the Boeing philosophy, however, the aircraft tries to dissuade you by reducing roll rate at the extremes of the envelope forcing you to make a concerted effort to do something silly. The real aircraft also adds in additional yoke resistance as a not so subtle reminder that it doesn't like what you are doing.

Hey Chris, something akin to a NASA shuttle launch its an amazing experience, even in a desktop sim. Its an amazing powerhouse. I read recently that each of the engines has 3 times the horsepower of the worlds largest cruise liner!

I can only agree with what Luke says, she follows the fly by wire logic of the real aircraft to the letter. Well actually not a letter, maybe a novel, as there is an awful lot of that logic going on behind the scenes. No-one need have any concerns as to whether the last nuance of the FBW system is modelled as the short answer is that it is all there.

Ed, I haven't forgotten this, I just need to find some time between flight cycles to grab the pages to screenshots for you Alan, I think that is a really good point. It is that paradox again of complexity making things simple. I won't be glib and say you can fly without some study as that is not true (especially with programming the FMC) but your workload will certainly be less than many other airliners. I can tell you that engine out both in the air and on the ground offers the precise performance of the real aircraft. The guys spent a long time with engineers getting this perfect.

Guys, Here is the TAC in action. I deliberately failed the right engine at V1 and continued in to the air Please note I am applying absolutely zero rudder pressure and the autopilot is NOT engaged. However, I am still happily following the flight director, letting all the fancy fly by wire stuff and the TAC automatically trim out the yaw. It works so well, if you are not looking at the instruments, you would hardly notice you had just lost that huge engine! You can just continue to fly like nothing had happened, although I do recommend returning to base The moral of the story is that the TAC virtually makes the engine failure invisible to the pilot, no stomping on the rudder to correct on the runway or in the air, its all done for you!

Ron, it is a wonderful feature of the real 777 (and found in the sim). If you lose an engine on the takeoff roll, the system automatically compensates with automatic rudder inputs to keep the aircraft in a straight line on the runway.

1) yes 2) yes 4) yes not done it with TAC OFF yet, I will give it a go later and report back!

just a few shots from my last flight from San Francisco to Fiji well established in the descent now. Based on questions here about VNAV accuracy my plan is to allow the aircraft to fly all the way to ILS capture in VNAV passing through 6500ft and I have received the cabin ready for landing notification some wing flexing going on as it is hot and choppy outside - a common occurrence in this part of the world! downwind on the published approach, flaps 1 and using VNAV Speed intervention for my target speed. VNAV is right on the money still in VNAV SPD INTV at localiser capture, APP armed, the green "Kermit" arc tells me that I am going to reach target altitude exactly where I want to, over the waypoint where I transition to the ILS. From this point on, VNAV gives way to a standard ILS approach! I hope these few shots help a little for those asking about the autoflight accuracy.

if we find a bug it will be fixed, have no doubt about that. There would be no bugs that are reported that are left unfixed. The guys are meticulous in fixing every known item, no matter how small, before release.

I wish I didn't have to adjust my weights with an external program, you should see the hours I spend jumping around with the Wii Fitness!

yes that step climb feature is fully modelled.

I find it can be really useful to put your ND in to full compass rose mode on ETOPS flights when checking alternates, then you get an arrow for the alternate in front of you and an arrow and distance for the airport behind you. This way you can always monitor when you are beyond the halfway point between both alternates should you need to divert. In the normal NAV arc mode, it lists alternates ahead of the aircraft as demonstrated so well here by Luke, in full compass rose mode you get forward and back.

Its still there Alex, using the PMDG trademark technique of the bottom left screw on the MCP You can right click that same spot for dis-engaging the autopilot or click with the mouse centre button to disengage the A/T