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Play the Mega Millions lottery. Win. Contract PMDG to build the 757/767 and all derivatives including the 764. We'll have it in no time.

What a relief thanks!

Will this ever be on FSX?

Either it will be August 2015, or August 2016.

The 787's flight deck is all-new. The 777X flight deck is supposed to follow the 787's, per most recent information. The 787 is a wholly different airplane than the 737, or any Boeing airliner for that matter. Almost all systems are completely electric, no hydraulic systems to speak of. Its a whole new animal. That said the 787 is the most likely candidate, it is new, there are two models flying with the -10 to come soon. While I would love it to be a 727 or 757, I doubt it.

I have been injected with a new hope in life!

How about the DC-6?

For those of you who thought I'd stir the pot about PMDG's *supposedly* upcoming DC-6, you were wrong! Rather, through my internet searching I have found a Douglas DC-6 for sale, and it looks quite familiar. Here is the PMDG plane, with both henning van Rensberg in the real thing, and PMDG's paint scheme: Here is the listing at Controller.com (Can't link pictures): http://www.controller.com/listingsdetail/aircraft-for-sale/DOUGLAS-DC-6/1958-DOUGLAS-DC-6/1357265.htm Listed as a 1958 Douglas DC-6B, this plane previously served in Zambia, Yugoslavia, and other places. Currently listed at $1,245,000, some negotiating could bring it down to an affordable $1,000,000 for anyone here who can't wait for a PMDG release; maybe we can crowd fund this purchase? I think this very well is the same plane that Henning and PMDG structured their development after. Thought you guys would like to see this.

Before or after the 747?

That all for radio navigation.

I'm interested in having a fictional repaint done for the PMDG 777F based on a real-life cargo airline, although they don't operate the 777. If anybody is interested, please let me know. Thanks.

Well, the 787 has been flying for nearly five years, in service for three. It has reached 1,057 orders as of today, so it is by no means 'didn't sell as well as the newer airplnes Boeing is making', especially seeing as though they are the newer planes Boeing is making. The main issue is that even when 747 v2 development is complete, say a year from now (as previous cycles would support), is that although the 787 will have been in service for four years, flying for six, and would likely have enough data to satisfy what PMDG needs, the stretch variant (and second most popular, with 435 orders), the 787-9, will have been in service for only a year, and the longest, the 787-10, still a year away from first flight.

You'll still have elevator trim to cheat with...

Go to Boeing's YouTube channel (or Airbus) and see their videos on the various flight test campaign items. Recreate these certification tests, it's fun. I also like to test the flight envelope protection systems; you can also try turning off the flight computers and do some approaches and procedures to see how dependent you get on them.

Be glad there's no price control for these sorts of things. If they weren't allowed to charge $90 for the product, it wouldn't be made (likely).

When do we expect release?

But the 737-700ER doesn't have comparable passenger capacity or short field performance. The difference between a 757-200 and an A321 or 737-900ER is that when it comes to the A321 and -900ER, when they do things that the 757 does, they barely do it. Plus, the super stretched other smaller narrowbodies don't have a larger variant for increased single aisle route capacity like the 757-300 provides.

I can't say about the straight -200 or -300, but I think the -200ER is the most likely, if any other 777 variants come later. As for the 777X, the 777X isn't set to enter service until 2020, and it will be at least 5-7 years before performance data satisfies the requirements for PMDG to develop a product.

SO, I just built a new system, cleans Windows 7, everything. I have a clean install of FSX on a proprietary hard drive, and I have the 737NGX installed and it works fine. I installed the 777-200LRF base pack, opened FSX and activated it. I then installed SP1, and then the -300ER, opened FSX and activated it too. However, nothing in the aircraft works. Systems, displays, knobs, missing gear, no animations, etc. I uninstalled the -300ER, then I uninstalled the 777-200LRF base pack. I proceeded to reinstall the base pack, I opened FSX and loaded the aircraft, to find the same problem. This time I was not prompted to activate. I uninstalled and re-installed again, to no avail. Any insights?

As of an ambiguous post made in their forum a few months ago, it is 'still in development'...

Logically I wouldn't buy it because most of commercial flying is in Delta colors, and they don't operate the -300ER. However they have a big order coming this fall, so maybe if I buy it I'll make good karma. You know, $35 is a good tipping point on the $3.5 billion side... When people say -300, they mean -300ER, there's no need to get all pretentious about it. Plus, with only 60 straight -300's built to the now 721 ER's, calling the 300ER just a 300 doesn't warrant confusion

Boeing prototype colors:

Don't forget you actually get to use the thing in beta test while the rest of us have to wait and wait.

600: Pan Am, Austrian, Janet, Boeing 700: Delta, Alaska, primer green 800: Delta current, Delta Color in Motion, Delta classic, Delta Skyteam Alaska, Alaska Salmon, ANA, Pan Am 900: Boeing, Delta