wrberg12

Commercial ticket instrument rated around 3,000 hours. Never flew as a professional pilot but I try to fly like one. Currently fly an SR22 turbo with lots of bells and whistles. Owned a V tail Bonanza for 10 years. Best handling plane I've ever flown.

Owned one for 10 years - best handling airplane I've ever flown.

The Jetliner folks are great. I've had one of their builds for around two years now - very happy with the product and the service.

Guess I’ve reached my saturation point in trying to mess with all this software to get it working properly. P3D v.3 is a nightmare – seems to work more poorly every time I boot it up. GSX and FS Dream Team are virtually unusable. All sorts of excuses with software representatives about what’s going on but the bottom line is that it just doesn’t work. I’ve got a top of the line Jetline system, plenty of power and I update all this software as recommended. I’m not a computer guy but I’m not stupid either and I’ve managed somehow to enjoy flight simulation since 1982 until now. PMDG’s stuff is great. Never a problem. Virtually everything else sucks. I’m not one to want to tweak all this stuff all the time – I enjoy aviation and flying – not fooling around with software settings all day long. I’m a real world pilot and find that flight simulation is a nice adjunct to that and can actually be useful in flight planning and instrument practice – at least when it works. Sorry for the negative tone but I’m frustrated – obviously. Guess I’ll turn off the computer and come back in a week or two – maybe some of it will have fixed itself in the meantime.

What a great bird! You guys at PMDG have knocked the ball out of the park again. The airplane flies smoothly for me at good frame rates even into the tutorial KSFO (where I have the Flight Beam Airport add-on). Very easy to hand fly which corresponds to what I've been told by RW 747 drivers. All in all many thanks for a great simulation experience. Only issue which is really a non issue is that something curious occurred when I went back to a saved enroute flight in the 777. I was flying a 777 flight when I decided to download the 747 so I saved that flight and did the download with no issues. Flew the new bird for a while then I wanted to finish the 777 flight, so I exited P3D, brought it up again and pulled the saved flight up and got blank instrument panel screens and gauges and the plane wouldn't respond to control inputs. Repeated this a few times with other enroute saved flights and the same thing happened. Pulled up a saved flight on the ground and it worked fine. Not sure this is worth messing with unless it signifies some issue that has a bigger impact. I'm fine with it and thanks again for a great simulation product. Walter Berger

Take comfort knowing that your instructor is confident that you're ready. That should give you confidence as well. Relax as best you can, and look forward to how proud you'll feel when you've completed your flight.

I've had one of their rigs for around six months. Couldn't be more pleased with the product and my experience with the company was excellent. Walter Berger

Believe that's where former President Bush lives.

My only surprise regarding PMDG's pricing and the entire sim world in general is how inexpensive products are. The realism and overall quality of products, and particularly PMDGs is astonishing for what you pay. The only other way to get a similar aviation experience is to go to qualified training sims or fly real world and the price differential is huge. I still fly real world and the fully costed price of one six hour trip in a nice SR22 approaches what an entirely new rig costs plus a ton of software. Just my two cents, but the sim world is a huge bargain. Walter Berger

Works perfectly after the SP1c fix.

I like it. The new 318/319 has some improvements, most notably the fuel and loading page is incorporated into the MCDU. Also seems to have a functional weather radar. Seems to fly a little smoother, too. Still has some rather abrupt heading and pitch changes when on autopilot on my system, but totally flyable and enjoyable. Would like to see a 2D cockpit but I guess I'm just a Luddite on that issue.

I've had that happen a time or two and I noticed that the flight plan in the FMC had not filled in with altitudes. Seems to happen out of Seattle going west more than other airports. Pretty infrequent, though.

I still fly the 74 and enjoy it a lot. The separate fuel and loading program is a bit of an annoyance but regardless it's a great plane. I gave up on the new version of the 77 because of the time compression problems and went back to the original. Hope PMDG conpletes the 74 upgrade - should be a nice improvement to an already fine aircraft.

1982 or 1983 for me. Ran the program on an IBM PC, Jr.

66 1/2. Been flying MS Flight Sims since the early '80s. Started on an IBM PC Jr. with what was probably the first version of MS Flight Sim. Also fly real world and love 'em both! Both worlds, that is.