Skybird05

This probably has been asked before, but I only find discussions of the default eyepoint position in VC. I got the RealAir Turbine Duke, and in its manual there is the option mentioned to have several of the panel-zoomed perspectives (3D) linked to quick access keys in the FSX keycommand menu. One only had to assign keys to cameras 5-9, (1 probably is the default pilot view, 2-4 are missing), since 5-9 corresponds with these zoomed VC views on different parts of the panel. Give it a key, and you can jump to it directly. I did, and it works, and it is nice. Better, much better than needing to cycle through all them in sequence, by pressing A. I would love to have the same for the PMDG 737NGX. TBH, I do not even know why they took the time to design 2D panel windows, especially the 2D head-up panel is more difficult to read (Sh-6 it is, I think), than if cycling to the 3D pendant of it, it also breaks immersion a bit to have this contrast between 2D and 3D panel. Now, in the 737 you have the panels in "D accessibale via Shift-key and a number. I would like to have quick keys, but not calling up (and leaving again) the 2D panel windows, but the 3D pendants that you get when cycling through them via "A". I expected to have gotten at least some of them now, since I entered keyboard commands in the FSX menu for cameras 5-9 as explained earlier. But they do nothing in the 737s. Is there a way to have the virtual 3D-subpanels, zoomed, linked to the quick-view keys Shift+Number ? (Or a different combinatioin, I use a programmable HOTAS). Thanks.

People sometimes underestimate the fingerprint left by GEX and especially UTX. Both can put stress on system resources, and what is available from that to the simulator. If you do like me and now fly IFR at high altitude exclusively, with the 737NGX (and occasionally the JS4100), then consider to fold over these UTX/GEX addons, since at 25K+ altitude they mean little to your eyes anyway. And traffic, both AI planes and sea and road traffic - these are potential sim killers. Running FSX with PMDG planes, AS2012+REX2, and plenty of Aerosoft Airport sceneries, and owning an i5 2500 at 3.3 GHz with 8 GB and Win7Pro-x64, I initially often ran into system freezes and CTDs, even when having AIO traffic at less than 5%. But since I turned all traffic off (except airport-related ground services), all system crashes are a thing of the past, and even hours-long flights work flawlessly now since months. I have frames externally fixed at 30, use an auto-tweaked config, have visual settings at max, and clouds at full display. No problem. Switch AI plane traffic to 2 or 5% - and some minutes after getting airborn, CRASH. Little sacrifices, leaving me with what is really important: marvellous cloud and weather envrionment, and two fantastic PMDG working places. UTX, GEX and AI traffic therefore not in use over here anymore.

Hi, I'm looking forward to the DVD release of the 737, and follow the developement since long as a silent observer. I'm patient. I note that there seems to have been some trouble with people complaining about the delay for family reasons, social misbehaviour over that complaint by some posters, and the suggestions to make this a forum for registered users, i assume what is meant is registration by product activation. Allow me two or three thoughts on all this. I do not know anybody in the PMDG team, but it is a question of reasonabilty and politeness to understand they are humans too, with a social life and a family life. Somebody of the PMDG team is needed by his family. This is to be respected by all of us. Period. I hope all things turn out well for the individual in question, and his father. Having been a forum mod myself for several years, I want to encourage the mods NOT to turn this into a closed forum, for two reasons. First, to monitor the forum and to moderate where misbehavior or dispute arises, simply comes as part of the job. In some forums, communities are such that many problems pop up with people. In others, it is less often happening. Anyway, dealing with these issues and sorting them out - is part of the moderator's job. That'S why he is there. The less he is needed, the better, but that still means: it'S part of his job. Second, skimming a product forum before I form a decision whether or not I buy a product, to me and many others has become part of the routine, and for the producer it is a great opportunity to raise interest for his product and to attract potential new customers: by convincing with a good display of community interaction, and allowing said new customers to collect information by other people'S feedback. It is no clever thing to close this entrance door for potential new customers! The Space Shuttle Mission simulator handled things like this initially, they were very hostile towards potentially interested people and demonstrated a signficant lack of interest to invite people into getting insights and information that led beyond the very glossy and superificial official advertising (telling by own experience, I even contacted their customer support over a question with the download and installation procedure, and got some very snappy reply, with the only result that I decided against them and lost all interest immediately). After some time they understood that this conduct of theirs probably was a mistake, and opened their forums a bit more, at least that is what I was told meanwhile. They had taken a growing ammount of fire and I assume a not unsignificant loss in customers by doing so. That was not needed, and nothing was gained for anybody! Several other examples could be mentioned as well. So please, do not make forums like this a place locked to everybody who has not already bought the product. In the end, it translates into slamming the door into the face of interested potential newcomers and new customers. It reduces the number of people finally buying the product. And last but not least that cannot be in the interest of PMDG. On the names, keep in mind that just because somebody signs with a name, this does not mean he really is that guy. Again, what it really is about is politeness and manners in social behavior. I sign with Marcel below, but that means not more and not less to anybody than my 20+ -years-in-use avatar "Skybird", even less when I tell you that many people in my real life also nickname and call me "Sky". Mandatory use of names - solves nothing if there is a problem with manners in a forum. You need to sort out the troublemakers. That's the only thing that really works. And in a forum, we all are just ghostly voices or scriptures on a board - not to be mistaken with our lives in reality. Greetings,Marcel "Sky" Heller,Germany