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Just one more observation from my 2 hours in the 777 sim at United - you used manual trim frequently on approach to keep the needles centered... Colin Ware Seattle

I find this topic interesting. I had the good fortune to fly the 777 simulator at United's training center in Denver during the Avsim Conference all those years ago. The plane is amazingly easy to fly - it goes where you point it. I hope that is represented in this simulation. It should be easier to control than the MD or the 737. Colin Ware Seattle

I really hope the DC6 is next out of the chute. The 747 is yet another button-liner in the same vein as the 737 and 777...

I'd prefer the DC6 before the 747...I want to fly, not push buttons. Colin Ware

The sim is very good at representing the mind numbing boredom of long haul cruise.... Colin Ware

This is my concern - the automation is so sophisticated you pretty much sit back and don't do much...my favorite plane right now is the Cool Sky DC9 Classic because you always have something to do...

I have a similar rig, running at 4.8 on liquid cooling, with one vid card, and I get that performance in cruise or at several thousand feet above default scenery. I'm in the high teens and low twenties on final into a busy airport, taxiing and take off. That's why I don't like this poll. In cruise you can make even old out of date machines seem like rockets.

Quote: There is also a disturbing trend of Intel users having problems. Many are seriously overclocking their processors which is not good anyway, but after all that they still complain of 10 FPS. I suggest the processors are not liking the overclock. This is a completely baseless statement. I've been running overclocked for a year now and never once had a BSOD or crash related to overclocking. Ever. With the right cooling, overclocking is not the cause of any of these problems here.

Ridiculous or not, it works... this solved my OOM problems with the NGX and the MD11...

I think the group has covered this well - that the FMC uses both VORs and ADFs in addition to it's own INS and GPS to keep track of the plane's location; that many general aviation planes still have VOR recievers etc. But one other fact is that GPS is very easy to disrupt. So you better have all the other stuff. http://www.economist.com/news/international/21582288-satellite-positioning-data-are-vitalbut-signal-surprisingly-easy-disrupt-out Colin Ware Seattle

This has always struck me as a solution that would have benefited Microsoft far more than the Flight fiasco. A "Platinum" version of FSX that embraces modern graphics cards and processors, included their upgraded sceneries like Alaska and anything they had in the pipeline, would probably have sold well. I would have bought it. Colin Ware Seattle

But it doesn't have a taxi camera... sorry, could not resist. Colin Ware Seattle

How do you manage your throttles please? I have a very old Cirrus II (serial port version) and I have a lot of trouble getting the throttles to not conflict with the AT.

The company differences are profound. I have a friend who is a first officer on Alaska, but broke into the majors with Continental. Her comment was that both airlines fly the NG quite differently. I had the pleasure and good fortune to end up in the T7 simulator at United at the AVSIM Conference all those many moons ago and got to shoot three approaches in the left hand seat, and two in the right. The procedure the check ride pilot used, and confirmed as being SOP at United then, was to use AT all the way to the threshold, then retard the throttles to idle, which if I remember correctly, brought the engines to idle thrust for touch down. I don't remember if the AT was disconnected by that, however, but you rode the AT pretty much to the numbers. United also taught a crosswind technique which was to crab into the wind, then transition to wing low several hundred feet up - the check ride pilot said the plane misbehaves when you uncrab it in level flight at that speed and altitude. What is complicated in the sim world is that hardware can conflict with the sim's throttle commands. I have never managed to get my Warthog to work with complete satisfaction with the NGX AT. It would be nice if PMDG had found a way around this - but given how many different throttles here are out there, I won't be surprised if it still does not work 100%.... Colin Ware Seattle

So, let me get this straight. PMDG is developing a model of a 160 million dollar airliner that is has a cockpit and procedures that are about 95% accurate to the real plane, and you are getting bent out of shape because it doesn't have weather radar (for the reasons stated so many times it has become tedious to revisiti), and because it doesn't have a taxi camera? Seriously? The level of detail and accomplishment in these products, to bring real world procedures to a $60 flight sim program, is staggering, and you are complaining because it doesn't have a taxi camera? Did you dump your last super model girlfriend because she had a birthmark on her thigh?

this is a running joke between Tom and Robert - explained at the conference this year Robert was a captain for a regional flying the Jetstar that PMDG made - but Tom insists the worst flight ever in a regional came in a SAAB at Robert's hands... I want to see pictures of the DC3....

Nonsense. The tickets work fine. I've used them several times...

A little patience folks. The Coolsky DC-9 got off to a very rocky start, but is now a a very good airplane worth every dollar of its price. We will probably be saying the same thing in a few weeks about this one... I was on many 200s when I flew on United a lot for work in the late '90s. They ran a lot of them out of the DIA hub for shorter midwest runs, like Minneapolis and Detroit. I think the dot.com recession did them in...

You need something like Constant Comment which will manage the outbound delivery of emails to help avoid being labeled a spammer...

Perhaps you should wait to see if anyone has any issues before getting all huffy and self important.... After a rough start, the coolsky DC-9 is an excellent airplane with full systems modeling. If you want to do some vor to vor flying, it is a good choice.

Rob owns (either by himself or with the PMDG team) a flying DC3. Several folks at the conference in Kansas who have worked with Rob suggested it is in their queue... Colin Ware

MD11 had these decades ago...what's the big deal?

Sadly, as you have discovered, there are not solid 757s out there. The CS is a half-finished piece of junk. The FMS is a joke - probably about 20% of the real thing's functionality. And CLS makes "lite" planes - very light on systems. Maybe, before I file for social security, Level D will release their 757... But that has been so long in development, I think it was originally going to be offered with a dial-up modem. Colin

We are never going to get any new planes if all of the developers' time is spent updating old ones...what's next, an update of the Fly! 757? Colin Ware Seattle

I think that was the one released with the fan blades showing in the tail engine - like the DC-10. Certainly not as real as it gets...