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Any time The PMDG Oracle speaks, this is good news for all mortals. Monitoring the clock on the wall, for the first sign of 2022. No cause for alarm. All is well in the known universe.

This is music to my ears for sure. Jaw dropping ground scenery, ultra-realistic weather and cloud rendering, all capped off with a PMDG high-fidelity heavy metal jet crafted for 2020's amazing MSFS. Great time to be alive for sure. I will make sure that I do survive long enough for the 2020 MSFS PMDG777 to be released, even if I am obliged to skirmish with that pesky virus in the meantime.

Much thanks for this explanation Snow Falcon. I did a perfunctory search before starting this topic, so I missed the topic already created to address the same question. Good to know that PMDG will roll out some Boeing jets for the 2020 Microsoft Flight Sim once it is released.

With the news two days ago of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 on final approach for touchdown by an August 18th 2020 release date, I got to wondering how long it might take before PMDG starts to craft a fleet of airliner masterworks for this new and very promising simulator platform. Will the 737 NG and 747 series PMDG creations easily translate into the new 2020 MSFS, or will a complete ground-up coding mega-project wind up as the only way to field PMDG airliners with this new platform ? Any thoughts on these musings of mine would be welcome, as I feast my eyes on the ultra-realistic ground scenery and aircraft detail unveiled in MSFS 2020 teaser videos now appearing on Youtube.

Wow thanks for this vital, time saving information Martin. I really look forward to flying the Q400, and to fighting that prop wash yaw with my CH yoke and Saitek rudder pedals. The Q400 FMS is reportedly a fair bit different from the Boeing FMS or the Airbus MCDU, and I look forward to learning this variant of auto-flight management. Now that all else has failed I might as well follow the instructions you have been kind enough to point out. and I can say with assurance now that the light at the end of the tunnel is not an approaching train.

I purchased the DVD version of Majestic's Dash8 Q400, but could not install it in my computer despite multiple attempts during which I get prompted for the DVD serial key code, which I type in, BUT then the system just freezes up and stops with no error message of any sort. I have never encountered such a failure to install with ANY of the numerous FS9 and FSX airliners I have purchased in DVD form over the years. At least with the procedure described by Martin here, I now have an idea about how to qualify for the privilege of joining the Majestic discussion forum so I can finally ask someone why my DVD version won't install. I do find it a bit odd that customers need to grovel and jump through hoops to qualify for acceptance into the hallowed realm of the Majestic discussion forum, though my exasperation is not quite as intense as that described by Ponco, perhaps because I hadn't yet tried to chase down the fabled "Invitation Code", so I can at least thank Poncho for alerting me that I would never have found the Invitation Code where I had hoped to locate it. Anyways, the Majestic Q400 does have such a sterling reputation with users that I would gladly dress up in a over-sized kangaroo costume and allow myself to be filmed swimming laps in a pool thus attired, if that is what it will take to get my DVD copy of this aircraft up and running.

Hello from a new buyer of the Dash8 Q400, I just purchased the DVD version of this highly acclaimed product, but I have run into a roadblock already. I get to the point of being prompted to enter the license key, and when that is done, the install program just hangs up and will not proceed any further. I have tried multiple times with the same result, and thus I am writing here to see if anyone else has experienced this lockout during the installation process. Any help that can be offered will be much appreciated. I waited for a long time for this delivery to be made, and now that the Q400 is here, I cannot even install or use it.

I should be so lucky. Oh well, I can at least consider myself an unwitting charitable donor of funds to the guy who runs Active Camera, which I suppose is as good a cause as any.

Let me know how it goes with those emails. I purchased Active Camera, but never got a chance to use it even once. The money I paid for Active Camera is gone, but is a small enough amount where I just decided to write it off as a loss, rather than make a fuss, especially when my emails to the seller of Active Camera met with no response at all.

Along with the entire AVSIM community, I bid a fond farewell to Tom. Most of us never had the privilege of meeting the man where he lived, but without question we have all derived benefit from his work informing and educating the online flight simulator community all these years. My condolences thus go out not just to immediate family and friends, but also to every one of Tom's "extended family" comprising flight sim enthusiasts, scattered across the globe. . Adios Tom. I tip my virtual wing in final salute.

Thanks for the reply Peter. I am optimistic that my difficulties with this program will be resolved, and I will fell slightly foolish for missing something obvious in my setup.

Much thanks Peter. I have emailed to you the contents of my Sim Starter Log Book, in the meantime while I continue looking for a file folder with the suffix "User Profiles, which if have not located in FSX or in Sim Starter just yet. I am hoping that the Log Book record of my scenery groupings might shed some light on any mistakes I have made here. Much thanks again for your help with my very basic questions.

I guess I can now see one benefit of only ever taking very short' low altitude flights of 15 minutes or less in duration from takeoff to landing, with all my addon aircraft. I have never once experienced the sudden "freeze" of the PMDG T7, as described in this thread, and, looking over the reports, it does seem to be a problem that most frequently appears after many hours of flying time.

Hello Peter, please may I request your customer questions email address here in this forum, if this can be possible. I checked the Sim Starter program and did not find the button labelled "About" , in order to find the email address, and I also checked your website, where there is also a reference to the "About" button, which I haven't located as yet. I hope to send my files by email today, but again my very poor computer know-how is getting in the way, with the result that I am having to request the email address that I am sure is already right under my nose. Much thanks in anticipation.

Apologies for my delay in responding, Capt Pero. I got sidetracked with various things going on here, but definitely over the next couple of days, I will send the requested files so that you can be able to offer advice about the correct settings needed to get the improved FSX rates that other SimStarter users have been seeing. I really appreciate your offer of help, and I am certain that I made a fundamental error that will be evident once you get the files to see the FSX configurations I have set with my copy of Sim Starter. My computer skills are very poor, I must admit, and this is why I need to devote more time to carefully following the instructions in the video clip that you have been kind enough to post here.