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Ryan mentioned a few days ago that the SDK is completed, but that some sort of a legal problem is holding back a release. How long this holdup could be was not mentioned, though.

Hi, I have run into a problem with the NGX, but I'm not sure at this point if I have run into a bug or I'm doing something wrong. The problem occurs when I try to start a flight using the cold and dark panel state. I use the normal checklist in the FCOM1 to set up my flight, which is at the default Boeing field (KBFI). After setting all up, I run the pushback procedure and engine start-up procedure. After doing the after start and before taxi procedures, I am ready to taxi. Here is where the problem start. I use my Saitek throttle to give some power to the engines, but they don't respond at all. I can see the throttle levers in the VC move, so they are responding to my input, but the engines stays at idle. I have even tried to do a TO/GA, and the thrust levers in the VC respond also here, but not the engines. It keeps running at idle. I also noticed that when I press the recall panel, the master caution button stays lit up, but nothing is displayed on the panel next to it, leaving me without any clue as to what could be wrong. I thought at first that I experienced a panel freeze, where the engine panel stopped updating, but when restarting the APU and cut the fuel to the engines, they whine down as expected. I restarted the engines, turned off the APU, and the problem was back. I have tried to start a flight from the "default" panel state where the engines are running, and It have been no problem to complete a successful flight. This leads me to think that I must be doing something wrong. The tutorials or manuals have not been very helpful to me on this matter. I have the latest hotfix installed. Another little thing I have noticed is that the little FSX tooltip which show exactly what my trim is when holding the mouse over the trim wheels, has suddenly disappeared. I was thinking of submitting a ticket, but I wanted to check here first in case I have missed something obvious.

Happy Birthday Robert! And good luck on the forthcoming 737NGX release

PMDG won't be updating the old queen. They have said though, that they might build a new queen from ground up with their new NGX technology. However, this is not officially announced and as far as I know, they still have both the Dash-8 and the 777 to do before they can consider a rebuild of the queen.

Why don't you want to activate it on you current computer? As far as I know you only need to reactivate it on your new computer when that is ready and you are good to go. I might be missing something here, as there has been a while since the last time I installed and activated a PMDG aircraft.You could always send PMDG a ticket and ask, but I'm not sure if PMDG will be able to give away manuals outside of the installer. I quess it depends on how much freedom PMDG has been given in regards to the agreement between them.

Unfortunatly no. Boeing did not allow PMDG to put the manuals up on their site for free download, something that is understandable. It will only install with the aircraft. I think there has been said that PMDG will try to release their own manuals before the release of NGX, but I'm not sure if that is any longer the case.As Robert said, the hardcover manuals are great. However, you probably will have the NGX on your machine long before you will receive those by the sound of things :(

Thank you Robert. This was actually very cheap, considering the quality of the product itself and the planned post-release development. I will be getting the 600 -900 and the ERs as well. Not sure about the BBJs and the military variants, but we'll see :( My credit card is warming up now :(

Thank you for this great news Robert. Looks like this will be released in the middle of my summer holidays. Perfect timing. Gives me time to get used to this aircraft before I'm back to the normal workdays. Could it be KLAX to KLAS? :(

Big news or releases from PMDG has historically always slowed down the AVSIM servers, or some times melted them down :( I'm sure Tom and rest of the AVSIM Staff don't look forward to the next 7 to 10 days. But I'm sure PMDG and we do... :(

Great video, with some enjoyable comments by Nick. He seemed to have great amount of knowledge of the 737. I noticed already with the 747-8 expansion pack, that PMDG was on an interesting track in regards to the external model. It looks amazing. I loved the texture and the reflections.I'm one of those that have never really understood why some people will have fully modelled passenger cabin in flightsim. But one thing that surprised me a bit in this video, was actually the quality of the cabin. After all the talk from PMDG about how they are not making passenger simulators and that resources would be used on the flightdeck, I expected just some basic shape and little to no textures. However, the cabin actually looked rather nice :(

Ok. Thanks Dario and Ryan. I was actually not aware that each core is clocked that much down on dual GPU cards. I will maybe just get a 580 then. I could always add another 580 later as an SLI if required. I use the video card for both simming and some gaming, but both is mostly done on one 1920x1200 monitor, so that should be alright.And yes, I look forward to hearing about what the new MS Flight has "under the hood" :(

Ryan, can you elaborate on this? The reason why I ask is because I'm looking at maybe replacing my XFX Geforce 295 GTX, a card I have been very happy with. I today use one 24" screen from Dell, and I'm thinking of adding maybe another two for something mainly non-flightsim related things. For this I have found the 590 to be perfect. Are you saying that I then will get less performance in FSX with a 590 than I would with a 580? As far as I know, the 590 has two cores of the same type that 580 have one of. Even if FSX is only able to utilize one of the cores, it still should perform at least equal to the 580. Or am I missing something here?

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think either RSR or Ryan said that the current agreement PMDG have with Boeing, also include manuals to the 777. But I don't think you should expect it any time soon :(

Thanks Jon. Good work. I put this in my signature until the NGX is safe inside my hangar :(

Lowering the yoke in the 3D cockpit to allow for a better view of the screens is a function PMDG have had on most of their aircrafts I think.