SteveA300

Hi Everyone, I don't normally post to these topics, but on this occasion I think it is appropriate that I do. Threads that compare one products against another usually don't go well and when one of the product I am involved with is mentioned all I ask is for things to be fair. I was disappointed that someone I have huge respect for decided to comment on an older version and not our current offering. Having myself posted in the past without thinking things through I hope s this was one of those. The staff here at AVSIM and other enthusiasts sites do an amazing job and one that is often taken for granted. I remember when I got my first modem and my simulation world came alive due to the great community here and available on the other great sites, getting up in the morning to see the files that had been downloading overnight. Many younger members won't have experienced that joy. When serious injury ended my career and real world flying, it was these communities that kept me sane. It is really important that the people behind the products are simmers and behind the scenes we all get on. My close friends know I am a PMDG fan and have been since their first aircraft. I own a boxed version of the PMDG NGX and Ryan at PMDG owns a copy of the iFly. It is the competition that is making sure simmers are getting the best possible products. We are seeing some amazing products at the moment, scenery, aircraft, GA, Airliners, Military, and helicopters. We all look at what is new and how other developers have raised that bar and then set about looking to see what we can do. It is great to be a fan of your favourite developer, but also you need to open your eyes to what is happening and how as a simmer things could not be better. As has been mentioned we are incorporating ASN weather radar and have launched an open beta for our owners who make a donation to ORBIS and help save the sight of a chid. How does this help you if your a PMDG fan? Well I am sure the team at PMDG will follow on and add support for the great work Damien and Kostas and the team at ASN have done. We, like PMDG always said no weather radar because it was not realistic, now it is and as I said earlier it is a great time for simmers. Innovation is improving our hobby. For those fearing the worst about FPS, no panel is added to the aircraft it just reads the data from ASN. Back to the crux of the topic and I am the first to say that if your a 3D cockpit fan the PMDG NGX is really nice and yes the way they modelled their failures is impressive. When the iFly was first released over 3 years ago it was never intended to compete with PMDG, the product now has little resemblance to that first released and our current version is also a lot different from the SP that was mentioned. So please if you want to compare please compare the current offering and not what has now passed it's sell by date. Our great hobby is in a good place despite what some people will say. You are seeing amazing quality products at the moment from the Dash 8 and PMDG 777 and when the bar is raised it is a challenge for others to do likewise. There maybe less new products, but in my view quality over quantity any day of the week. When you post comparing one against the other it's nice to be nice, as we are all trying to make sure when you choose to going flying in your precious free time it is an enjoyable and rewarding experience. Happy holidays.

I see you posted on the IFly forums, I would follow their advice register your product and get full forum access and they will sort everything out for you.

If you post your issue over at the iFly support forums I would be happy to help you fix this. http://ifly.flight1.net/forums/default.asp

We are working on this as posted on our support forum and full details of whats happening and when it is available can be found there by our licensed users. We will be offering a Service Pack in the near future also fixing some other minor issue.

The comments from Agustin are based on the FS9 version and not FSX. I was approached by Agustin offering his skills to modify the aircraft, as we have a team with a lot of experienced NG type rated crews we his offer was kindly turned down as our test team at the stage was complete and most of the team had flown he aircraft in FS9 and FSX considerably longer than a couple of hours. I did explain that a lot of issues had be resovled for FSX and fixes for FS9 would follow in the Feature Pack for both aircraft. A quick look at the crossbleed start on the FSX aircraft will verify this. We alway welocme feed back from our users real world or otherwise as there is a lot of FS pilots who have taken the time to read in detail the FCOM's and other sources of information available. No one person has all the good ideas and this has been shown by the way the iFly pilots have contributed to the development of current and future enhancements that will be added to the Feature Packs for both platforms.

if you put the for example the Delta livery, Texture.CLDA into the iFly737-800 aircraft folder and then use the My Fleet tool to add

If you take these issue to the support forum I will help you there, as I am not seeing the issues you are reporting here. If you just report what you seeing after reading the topic read before posting as some of the answer will be there. I will be waiting in the iFly support forum to help you.

I would make sure you have Capt and FO on the same settings for call out on the EFIS panel often you see both set on different resulting in 2 sets of call outs. In reality The Capt should take priority and this will be the case in the Feature Pack. If you are experiencing something worse that this just post over on the support forum and I will be glad to help you with this.

As the person responisble for the support at iFly I thought I would put the record straight regarding wingviews. Unfortunately I don't know what your ifly user name is so can't check out what you were told at the time. Wing views are being added for the Feature Pack that will be available for both FS9 and FSX version adding lot of options to make the aircraft extremely flexible allow you to config the aircraft with a number of different options. The temp option of using FS recorder and looking at the number of videos available it seems to be one a lot of people like. I am sorry this issues spoiled your use of the aircraft, but that is why Flight1 offer a no a 30day refund if products don't meet you expectations. Hopefully you will be back in the air with the arrival of the feature pack.

Hello Ghiom, Since that it was me that replied to your issues in the support forum that created this belief you have that we are not interested in making the aircraft perfect, I feel that it is appropriate that I make everyone fully aware of my comments and the issue that caused this issue for you. In the forum you reported that the aircraft was not robust when in accelerated speed modes. When I replied and made you think I was being sarcastic I said that there were no plans to change how the aircraft behaves in advanced speed and then further replied We don't test or design the aircraft to work in advanced speed so are not going to change things at this late stage. I have used it in 2 and 4x speed to get to a test point on a route with no issues. What I don't do is leave it in those modes if there is a major change of direction as that makes no sense as it will not work. I fully understand that sometimes our time for a flight in the evenings maybe limited and for a longer route you do need to use accelerated speed but as with most complex aircraft it still requires you to monitor what is happening and if your route has a tight dog leg, you need to be abe to step in take control before then accelerated time. In the forum I have continually answered all your posts regarding issues you have had and seem unique to your setup and tested all these to make sure there were no issue. When I was honest and upfront with you on this occasion offering what for me seemed like sensible advice, you think this is my lack of interest in making the aircraft as real as possible. Since release the aircraft has come a long way since release and now with SP1 Rev3 and the Feature Pack to come is huge fun to fly. The Development Team have continually gone the extra mile for users to the point they added the option to hide the cockpit seats in the vc for one user with large high res monitors. It has been a huge learning curve for me as I was never a 737NG fan before becoming involved in this project and with many well informed users, but I have always tried to get the correct information and the development team have always updated the aircraft when it has been shown a system has not been modelled with 100% accuracy. I am not sure how much more we can do for the iFly users but it does appear an old friend was correct when he said you can please some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time.Steve MassoniFly/Flight1 support

Hi Rodd, Let me say firstly you are completely right to express your views on the iFly 737 and I would love to have seen you post them on our support forum as then I would been able to help you solve some of what were obvious install issues.With interim patch version 2 there have been huge changes with the aircraft but since it was launched it has autolanded perfectly and is one of the strong points. It is great that you were claim your refund because it is important to use that the aircraft meets your expectations. I am curious before you asked for the refund did you seek and support and for my own personal development could you provide me with your user name so I can see if there are any lessons I can learn from your experience which was obviously not a good one.

I meant to ask last night where you got the patch as it is only available the registered users forum. That could be your issue. Hi Chuck,I have replied to your issue on the forums, your are having a different issue as you are not loosing your flightplan.Hopefully we will get things sorted for you quickly.

If you follow this link adding your purchase details that will give you access and we will fix your issues.http://ifly.flight1.net/forumreg.htm

If you post in the iFly registered support forum I will be able to get you flying with no issue.

Hi I had no issues installing this on Win764 bit, did you remember to run as admin and with UAC off.Good Luck.