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  1. BillC
    The usual moans about delays for the UFT despite their intention that it will a) be compatible with planes they havn't even started on yet, and b) be MUCH more than just an EFB (the clue is in the name UFT). Maybe wait until we've it got it and actually know what it can do before dismissing it? The constant cries of "other developers did it before breakfast" are totally meaningless until full functionality can be compared.
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    11 Nov 1982 - observing the silence for Remembrance Day of course! We'd lost soldiers, sailors and airmen that year thanks to Argentina and the Falklands so Remembrance Day was more notable than usual. Also 2 months into my new career which would occupy me for the next 40 years.
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    I still use it along with MSFS because of "horses for courses" and MSFS has a severe shortage of quality study-level long-haul addons. This weekend we have a 5,000nm group flight that we'll do on Vatsim and I have nothing for MSFS that I would trust with a flight of that length (well, other than the DC-6 and I aint using that!) . so I'll use FSX and have a wide choice of aircraft such PMDG 777 or 747 although I'm actually tempted to get the LevelD 767 out of retirement!
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    The pricing suits me perfectly. Previously PMDG forced me to buy the 800/900 in order to get the 6/700s that I really wanted. I now have what I wanted for less than I paid in FSX 10 years ago. Pretty happy with this arrangement.
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    A British Airways 380 flew over my house yesterday climbing through FL150 en route Vancouver, I believe. Defo BA.
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    You should always check what Simbrief is giving you! It is not God and cannot be assumed to be correct at all times.
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    For the Asobo devs to spend a week with some seasoned long time simmers and their systems so that they actually understand what we're talking about when we ask for stuff. e,g, They've never understood what we meant by "Replay". They've clearly never seen Active Sky in use nor ever seen Hybrid measurements in use in an aviation context 🙄
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    I just don't understand the apparent obsession with Simbrief and EFBs that are nothing more than convenient utilities. You'd think they were as vital as a pair of wings to succesful flight from the frothing on here. I've managed nearly 18 years on Vatsim in PMDG 737s without either utility but now suddenly anything which doesn't have both gets a good kicking. I don't get it #justsayin .
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    Zero performance problems with the DC-6 here and my system is a geriatric i7-2700k/1660ti
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    I've not seen such busted restrictions at all and since all my flying is on Vatsim one has to be on top of such things. VNAV does at all times work within the art of the possible and if one tells it to do the impossible then it will ignore it, it can't just stop flying. I've certainly never had it descend below a hard floor and if it were doing that as a matter of course then it wouldn't have been released.
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    No, the PMDG Support Portal
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    In PMDGs, black screens are usually an indication of, shall we say, a 'licensing issue". So the best way to fix it would be via PMDG, use their Support Portal as detailed in the documentation provided with the plane.
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    Not by PMDG it wasn't, so whatever the source of that it is pure speculation. Face it, NOBODY KNOWS except PMDG.
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    Except, as so often happens, that is NOT what he said. He is probably the most misinterpreted developer out there. SM is littered with people saying he's announced a release date and he just hasn't. Just like all the people who say they know the price of it. RSR knows he gets hopelessly misinterpreted so he picks his words carefully. FYI, he said he hoped we would have it BY next weekend with the usual caveat that it might not be if they find an issue.
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    Of all the items on the sample lists above, there are only three that I am interested in #justsayin
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    I don't waste my time with streamers at all. I'll watch good reviewer's videos since they will usually cover all I need to know. "Live" streaming just adds wasted time and mistakes #justsayin.
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    I think the message in this thread is: before blindly spending fortunes in order to "run" MSFS - try it on what you've got first because you might be pleasantly surprised.
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    My PC is mostly about 10 years old: a i7-2600k at 3.5ghz, 16gb DDR3, 1060 gpu,1tb SSD and it runs the PMDG DC-6 totally smoothly, no stutters at all. Just prudent use of graphics settings, nothing dramatic, and I'm totally fine with it. It's far better than I ever expected it to be. Btw, my last CTD was in September 2019 and it was my own fault! The thread title is totally correct. I don't expect to have to do any upgrading for the PMDG 737 which I never thought I'd be able to say!
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    Yet I don't understand how they had PPL training and STILL got the Hybrid measurements wrong! You wouldn't think that possible. Similarly the misinterpretation of Metar cloubases to be MSL rather than AGL is a glaring lack of understanding of the basics. But yes, a few focus groups with simmers or developers would have avoided a number of wild goose chases.
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    The Save issue is another where Asobo show their lack of knowledge of the FS genre then fail to understand what their customers are asking for. See also the Hybrid measurements that aren't hybrid and also just not grasping what people meant by a Replay system. They'd do well to sit down with some grizzly old simmers and get to grips with what we had got used to 10 years ago like replays, saves etc.
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    Your PC definitely WILL run it. It's streets ahead of mine (10 year old CPU!) and I'm using the PMDG DC-6 at the moment. What your PC WON'T do is run it with everything maxxed but that's rather obvious. Without doubt, try it before buying something else because it WILL run and then it'll give you a pointer at how much you need to upgrade to reach the level that you are happy with.
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    Metar derived wx for airports is vital for those of us who fly on Vatsim/Ivao etc because our ATC determine runway in use derived from Metars. It's important that they match. Also for cloud base (which MSFS doesn't understand), QNH etc. We need to be on the same page as ATC.
  23. BillC
    Is there a timescale for this to support Vatsim or is that, for some reason, not possible at the moment? TIA
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    Just to note that PMDG did not "promise" anything re release, they never do "promise" yet the interweb loves to attach "promise" to any, always vague, estimates.
  25. BillC
    I was testing it yesterday (well after the server issues) with a friend parked next to me and we could not get lights to appear on his a/c. He was on P3D and could see my lights (me in MSFS) but we could not get his lights visible at all. So in terms of inconsistency, it may depend on what sims are in use and a load of other variables but my MSFS is pretty much vanilla and I have not seen lights on *any* aircraft since the problem appeared. BTW, it's been confirmed that it's not a Vatsim generated issue.
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