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As a quick test of that theory, disable any windows or AV firewalls temporarily, and see if you can connect then.

It’s rough to try to troubleshoot without being there, my theory is that its a firewall issue. Your pc’s connection to the router has a different IP address with Wi-Fi vs LAN, and if Msfs has port forwarding requirements for your firewall, they only apply to one of the ip addresses, not both, so you need to duplicate any port forwarding in your windows firewall-AV suite-router

Robby randazzle said on many occasions that they lost money on it, or didn’t make enough to justify.

Actually I WAS going to pre order until I saw the exclusive variant ploy, and the fact that it is capped. don’t like rewarding that sort of thing. Ymmv

He does if he doesn’t want to use nearly 2 year old nav data to plan his flight.

Of course there will be, and with good reason, that’s a pretty lousy marketing ploy. On the other hand, the ER is just internally different, with an extra fuel tank and different perf numbers. I’m sure a modder will have one in about 10 minutes after release.

Real people died. Which is a difficult scenario to imagine happening with the release of a toy plane, earlier or not.

Well, to answer the question, no. I have only seen animals when I did a Botswana flight or two for the purposes of seeing them. But I don’t think that’s weird. The planes that most people fly and the places they generally fly them would generally preclude animal encounters. Add to that, most of the time, you are at an altitude where they would be hard to notice, even if they are there. This being a flight sim, I find their inclusion a little strange. Large migratory birds, yes. Bears? Not so sure, but whatever, it’s cool.

As Bobsk8 said, engines running will limit editing of the primary flight plan in the mcdu. reportedly, this is real airbus behavior. But thanks for asking here, as there will now be a google searchable answer to the question if it pops up again for someone.

It’s not like those words can’t be used to describe this place as well…

Avsim can be counted on to “protect” simmers from low to medium complexity products, even if they are done by decent people in a competent way. Devs who create hard core complex simulators can literally do whatever they want, including horribly reprehensible actions way in excess of Randangelo’s worst offenses and they will still find willing shills here. a poster earlier pointed out that pmdg pushes the envelope of what’s possible in flightsims, and they do (or at the very least, they did). But they also push the envelope on acceptable business practices, and adviseable public behavior. While pmdg doesn’t take whole strides over the line very often, they love to feel comfortable in riding the very edge. Pointing that out, continually if necessary, is not a sin.

Head of Bethesda game studios. Dev of many games including Skyrim. Not immune to controversy himself.

What do you "miss" that from? Every Flight sim and every traffic addon ever released has been some sort of variation of "bad" in some way or other. what you are describing sounds like the dream that we all have, not anything that's ever existed.

Wasn’t the OP speaking about online traffic rather than offline/injected from aig?

I haven’t forgotten. And I won’t.

No this was from fsx to 32 bit p3d. They didn’t pull this stunt again, until p3dv4-p3d v5. Which was slightly different, and I had checked out of p3d by then.

Yes. They altered their installer so that Took several steps to avoid installing in p3d 32 bit. Most installers at the time would pull up the fsx directory from the registry but would be able to be overridden manually. Some didn’t even take that step. But that’s actually the minor point of the problem. Pmdg did that to sell a 99 dollar addon for 140 dollars that was essentially unmodified. Other devs would charge an upgrade, which was fair.

well, you said it yourself. this is your first pmdg experience. It takes a minimum of buying the same product at least twice, and paying progressively more for it, while seeing the previous reasons for the higher prices discarded, and new ones invented, before you really get it. and then promises made and not kept, or rolled into the next paid package (not upgrade, since they don't do those) And of course you really haven't lived until you've had them insert code in their installer to prevent installation into a functionally identical sim, and then charge you a 140 percent premium to remove that installer code for the exact same aircraft code you already bought for the other functionally identical sim. But if you want a 737 they are the only game in town, after scaring off all competitors by falsely claiming the 737 for msfs was nearly ready to go 2 years ago, while then blaming the sim developer for the fact that it wasn't. fun times. The fact you haven't been ripped off yet doesn't invalidate those of us who have been. The plane IS good though.

I guess it speaks to human nature that some are so enamored with their toys that they will overlook any amount of dishonesty or malfeasance as long as the products keep getting made. I Love PMDG's products, always been a fan. but they have earned every speck of ill will they have generated as well. It's not a one way street. They have this coming, and have had for a while. doesn't mean I don't enjoy the products.

As another has pointed out SU10 is not released. And when it does release, the only thing that is changing is the sdk. So you will still wait until 3rd party devs insert the code, test and release their own updates. So hold off on getting your panties in a bunch for a while yet.

TBH my performance calculator (topcat) in every situation I’ve had where the runway is short and the weight on the higher end has ASKED for flaps 1, but to be fair, I haven’t tried at skiathos. My gut feeling is that the plane will handle it easily. The FMC will give you Boeing performance chart speeds, which except for extremely abnormal situations should be more than adequate for sim operations. The performance calculations used by airlines have more to do with money than whether the plane can handle it.

It might terminally agitate a case of pretentious flight simmer OCD?

It’s not necessarily knowing about the update, but if there is an update, with Orbx, it just updates it, rather than downloading zip files, running them, fumbling around for serials and shiz, and then cleaning all that up manually. If an addon is available there, that’s my first choice.

Turn around after the first couple startups with a new plane. A lot of simmers like to flex about being able to do something that isn’t that hard. Turnaround is more realistic most of the time.

No wing flex?