ferrariman15

Can you PM me please.

I bought the whole lot from Airline2Sim but I managed to get them all saved before the servers were closed. Let me know if you want me to share the ones you purchased with you. Normally I would frown upon this sort of thing but when people cannot access what they have paid for it isn't right.

Wow, one of the most detailed, high fidelity aircraft addons is on the cusp of release (I am no fan of this early adopters thing at all but I suppose it's up to FSLabs what they want to do) and you have a look on here just to see people moaning. I'm staggered by the level of detail by watching A2S videos. If you think it too expensive or too detailed for you just don't buy it, simples! But there are some of us who love actually learning an aircraft properly! Now I just need to find time to fly my Q400, 737 NG, 777 and now this when its properly released. (And there is a 747 on the horizon as well, help not enough hours in the day!!)

Indeed I remember RR's comments regarding P3D V3 when it came out saying that 64 bit is not the be all and end all people believe it is. In fact it could make some developers extremely lazy and not optimise their products. RR said a while back that when they are developing a product like the 747 v3 once they have the core functionality they want in the sim they will then spend some time optimising it. In fact I seem to remember as a result of the development advances of the 747 V3 they were able to optimise the 777 even more. I am very very keen to see what masterpiece of a 747 will be like. If only every other developer put as much effort into optimising their products as PMDG do then people would have no reason to whinge about VAS.

So you want to force the ESP community to Xplane? What about the people that have spent loads of money on ESP based products? People will convert to Xplane as and when they want to, if they want to. Very much looking forward to this new 747 for P3D. If and when a 64 bit version of P3D comes out that could kill Xplane.

You see I find it curious how people say boring to a modern airliner. Makes me wonder how realistically people actually want to fly their aircraft in the sim. Modern airliners like the 787 & 777 are far easier to fly realistically single pilot in the sim (even though it would be technically illegal in the RW). I've tried to fly the older less automated aircraft realistically and the workload is just too high to do it single pilot. With the 777 it's even possible with switch panels and LINDA to hand fly and do all your flows and checklists properly.

I certainly don't think a 787 would be boring at all. Flying the 777 by the book is certainly a high workload during takeoff and approach. Considering the 767 will mostly be retired in a year or two I would rather they concentrate on current aircraft.

I know there was a thread a while ago about a PMDG 787 but the real question about whether or not one is likely was never really answered. I know that a fully functional EFB that comes with the 787 in the world as standard is a none starter, but is PMDG able and willing to make a 787 in the future? I know that another developer is currently in the process of making one but we know that will be "reduced complexity", so would really like to know if a PMDG standard one is likely in the future? I've looked at many YouTube videos on the 787 and most of the advances in aircraft design don't actually apply to the sim, and it looks like this bird is right up your alley so to speak.

Well IXEG prioritised rain drops over fundamental systems like TCAS! In a PMDG aircraft all the systems work exactly how they should. I know what is a bigger priority for me and it certainly isn't rain drops!

Will the 747 V3 feature an Ipad CDU connection feature so you can program the CDU on an Ipad?

The whole 'Slave of magenta' thing. Modern airliners are designed to be flown by the auto flight systems. The DC-6 is from a period before that but it does not make people who use the automation any worse virtual pilots.

Sorry but which modern airliner is designed to be hand flown? The T7 is trim for airspeed not pitch with the FBW system. I am looking forward to the DC-6 but I believe it still has an autopilot albeit a rudimentary one.

It's not really the right section TBH no but until PMDG release the upcoming DC-6 then all I use X-plane for is to fly helicopters. And at that height above the ground you really want some decent scenery. I'm sure when I'm flying the DC-6, and I use flying in the loosest possible sense of the word (more like attempting not to crash it!), I'm sure I won't care about scenery except airport scenery. The one big advantage that the X-Plane community is at pains stress is the availability of freeware scenery. But what is the point of all that if the people you are trying to attract from ESP platform can't install it because they don't understand the file structure and don't have hours of free time to start learning it.

Marius, thank you for the link to that application. BUT your post is exactly the same tone as I've had before from the Xplane community before which really really bugs me. I've spent a lot of time trying to understand the structure of Xplane scenery, with lots of time spent downloading enormous files, to then boot up Xplane and find that it crashes because a file is missing. You really need to understand that Xplane is not intuitive at all! I've read that page on the Aerosoft forums before. Was it any use in helping me install World2Xplane, no because W2XP assumes that everyone already knows exactly which files and folders to download and where to put them. Not helpful to people who don't understand to start with! And that Ortho4XP thing, what is going on with that? Just a load of files and folders with no clear instructions. I don't want to spend hours trying to structure my scenery folders correctly, just want an installer that does it all for you, which is incidentally exactly what Aerosoft EGLL for Xplane does.

Jimmy, thanks for your comments but the posted link from xplane 123 above highlight my issues perfectly. With P3D my Orbx scenery just installs perfectly because the installer does it all. With airport scenery I just have to make sure the scenery library is in the right order which is really easy. Those links above for World2Xplane, Meshes and Ortho4XP (whatever that is!) just link to a series of downloads with no explanation of how to install. One of the downloads for the World2Xplane for Europe has installation instructions of basically 'delete all old files in world2xplane europe and replace with new ones', well what if you have no clue how to install them in the first place!!! And people wonder why Xplane has never taken off as much as the Xplane community wants it to?