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Weird, they pulled the page.... But they had open sourced code that could make cars in GTAV drive themselves... http://web.archive.org/web/20170111195314/https://openai.com/blog/GTA-V-plus-Universe/ ----- Bo Chen

Used A.I. and Deep Learning/Machine learning and created a nueral net and trained a bot to be able to do realistically the tasks of a real first officer. This would make FS2Crew obsolete. Eventually Boeing /Airbus buys this tech from PMDG to make the first self flying airliners. Just as Deepmind is doing machine learning using virtual gaming 3D environments, it would make sense to train an AI autopilot in a flight sim first rather than in real life. PMDG could do a persistent connection to all users and datamine the stuff and get enough data to do this. All it needs is require persistent intnernet for "activation" reasons and then collect the data, in effect using crowd sourcing to machine train. Guys I wasn't joking about this.... It is already happening for self driving cars in video games like GTAV: https://openai.com/blog/GTA-V-plus-Universe/ So next is for PMDG to partner with OpenAI to make a self flying Boeing and then selling it to Boeing. ----- Bo Chen

Is that a spin on Captain America or something or to avoid getting sued by AA?

Do you ever plan to sell boxed version of this on blu ray or 4k blu ray I perfer vimeo streaming and downloading it directly, but as with the Aerowinx for the PMDG, if purchasing it as a gift for someone, a boxed version works much better. Is the Cadet+ available for preorder or only the teaser is out by Jan 30th?

Yes, you are correct. Its about to be midnight and I was getting edgy waiting for 2017. I apologize. ----- Bo Chen

If I understood the OP correctly, he didn't state that he was developing or distributing these so called "alternative darker cockpit textures", nor did he explicitly stated that he had actually used or installed them. He was merely making an inquiry as to where he could find them. This, in and of itself, is not in violation of the EULA as written. There is nothing in his statement or post that would lead a reasonable person to conclude or permissibly infer that he was guilty of "alter, reverse engineer or otherwise modify any portion of this software". ----- Bo Chen

This is top notch compared to the Angle of Attack 777 training. The AOA 777 had a lot of videos on theory, but little on actual practice. A lot of things in groundworks that were promised in the videos to be later covered in flightworks never were. and there wasn't even a lineworks. The AOA Media training of the Pmdg 777 didn't even cover any failures or emergency situations... So definitely I would say Airline2Sim fills in the gaps where AOA 777 left off... and being able to download videos without having to pay a $20/month perpetual subscription on top of the subscription itself is an improvement. AOA purposefully capped the Vimeo downloads to a pitiful 720p when only 1080p was available via streaming on Vimeo, and the excuse was the AOA eventually wanted to sell the videos as blu-ray physical media but they never went that route and still charge $20/month for 720p downloads.... Bad business practices!

It is now tomorrow.

Maybe an PMDG F-22? OR Free open source, cross platform, Shared Cockpit, + SDK/API for all to use and for developers to adopt in order to advance the whole of flight simming in general (rising tide lifts all boats). This means Shared Cockpit coming to all PMDG addons as well as possible for all aircraft for all other sims. OR PMDG announce they purchased FSX/P3D code from Microsoft and will make own flight simulator from here on out. Hence forth we have 64-bit, DX12 support, + Vulcan, OpenGL, Linux, etc and the default aircraft will include PMDG in the sims. OR Used A.I. and Deep Learning/Machine learning and created a nueral net and trained a bot to be able to do realistically the tasks of a real first officer. This would make FS2Crew obsolete. Eventually Boeing /Airbus buys this tech from PMDG to make the first self flying airliners. Just as Deepmind is doing machine learning using virtual gaming 3D environments, it would make sense to train an AI autopilot in a flight sim first rather than in real life. PMDG could do a persistent connection to all users and datamine the stuff and get enough data to do this. All it needs is require persistent intnernet for "activation" reasons and then collect the data, in effect using crowd sourcing to machine train. OR Solve the cost/license issue with the EFB and now a simulator of Boeing 787 is possible. OR Merger with FSLABS and now an Airbus A350 is on the way. OR PMDG addons aircraft now uses its own flight models as opposed to the flawwed FSX/P3D. OR A passengers Mode where the aircraft flys itself and we can just sit and watch and look out the window the entire flight. The cabins is now rendered in really beauitiful 3d, and there are attractive flight attendants with beautiful physiques to watch and FINALLY A Shared Cockpit scheme where non-flying pilots (simmers) get to sit and watch for free. So that someone who has a PMDG product can "show" it to someone who does not have a PMDG product, essentially the other free individual can download and use only in "watch only" mode where he has no controls, and only when synced up in a Shared Cockpit mode where the flying pilot actually is paid for a PMDG Product. This is like free advertisment/exposure while at the same time advancing flight simming in this sort of shared cockpit mode... Kind of like the concept where a paid member of a dating site can contact a free member and the free member can then respond. Or scale it to multicasting, for example, instead of like Live YouTube or Twitch or whatnot, have this Shared Cockpit be scalable in a sort of "presentation" mode whereby it is a scalable one to many relationship, so that all those with the same PMDG addon product (or even a freemium "view only" version of the product) can join in "life" as the flight is taking place as if he or she was right in front of it, versus having to watching a mere recording of it via YouTube or Vimeo or whatnot.... And another idea is this doesn't have to be 'live' or in real time necessarily but can also be recorded for 'life' playback, and thus no more need for watching videos when doing airline2sim/angleofattack and can just download the shared cockpit recording etc. ----- Bo Chen

Are there any recommended 4k monitors larger than 32 inch that maintain the same 16:9 ratio? I currently have a 1440p 32" but want to go bigger like 34 or 35 even, but not much bigger than that. For the life of me can't find ANY monitors (at 1440p or 4k) that are larger than 32" that are 16:9 (they are all more stretched and widescreened than 16:9) --- Bo Chen

It is Dec already. possible to preorder this?

I had a GTX 1050 Ti Mini that I got on Amazon for less than $130 and I can get roughly 50fps in 1440p with high settings, but was suprised when I spent $700 on a upgrade to GTX 1080 that it only went to 60fps... I know that FSX is CPU bound, (I have 4790k OC'd) but isn't P3D GPU scalable??!

Life imitates art is the saying. I think it is fair to say that a lot of times form is the essence of function (Bernoulli's principle)... and any fidelity of simulation is predicated upon the underlining systems and processes being simulated in the first place. For example, no one is going to come up with a 18-wheeler simulator in the same manner that PMDG/etc has produced airline simulators (yes I'm aware there is grass simulator, goat simulator, but those are largely jokes and not meant to be taken seriously) because simply said driving a truck is not as prestigious as flying a jumbo jet... so reality and simulation cannot be decoupled or divorced... one platform relies on the other. So having said that, with the NEW PMDG 747 on the horizon and about to debut, I can't help but feel a bittersweet sort of nostalgia of it all. Firstly, not counting cargo, but just for passenger side of things, 747-400 is all but dead. No one really flies it that much anymore. (the real issue is that unlike the PMDG Douglas DC-6 Cloudmaster, I don't think that was the INTENT) And Boeing has toyed with deciding whether or not to cut production of the 747 altogether... After having basked in the PMDG 777 for so long, revisiting the new screenshots of the "new" 747 (and they look great, much much improved from the legacy 747 from back in 2005) I'm suddenly reminded of just how outdated the 744 really is... from the green monochrome of the DOS-era FMC/CDU to the flight deck design arch. reminding me of the interior of a 1980's Oldsmobile, etc... everything about the plane just seems so "old". The irony is that we can now have at our desktop PC a full simulation of the 744 and its avionic and computer systems and subsystems just underscores the absolute advancement of computing technology and how outdated the 744 really is.... In ten or twenty years from now will airline aviation still have a future in the sense of pilots and cockpits or will aviation be completely automated? It feels like we are on the brink of an AI exponential explosion in which self-driving cars, and so many other things are just on the horizon. Uber, Google and Baidu are all making their self driving cars. Elon Musk is making Hyper Loop to obsolete airplanes altogether. Now I hear that Amazon got FAA approval to start testing automated drone delivery of packages in order to cut down on costs/time and to get rid of middle man like Fedex/UPS/USPS /etc. Forget for a moment the fact that soon there will be "kits" that can retrofit existing 18-wheelers and make them fully drive autonomously - thus cannibalizing an entire trucking industry at large - pretty soon with the advancement of 3d printing and autonomous UAVs and sUAVs and things like VR/Hololens/Augmented reality, this may cut down on all forms of air travel altogether from leisure and pleasure to business and commute to transport of the just-in-time inventory logistics etc... once 3d printing can print themselves and computer AI can come up with even better AI themselves, then we could reach that singularity point of no return... In such a world, it would be hard to imagine that real life pilots will still be needed or that indeed there will even be need for a manned aircraft at all... Given the proven potential in machine learning and deep learning as of late (this March a Google Deepmind AI program beat the world's strongest Go player, something most in the AI industry predicted was 10 to 20 years away and some predicted would never happen etc) by neural "training" on same sets, and having this same generalized AI technical applicable to a largest array of other tasks from playing games to designing shoes (Nike) it seems that no job is not replaceable by computers. IBM Watson for example can do better what doctors, lawyers, politicians and businessmen can do, making decisions that are optimized near perfection. Sure traveling saleman type problems are not NP complete, but when an AI can do it faster and better than humans, why would you let the human still do it? So FAA is a bit slow to the scene with things like NextGen and using texts/tweets to update aircraft/pilots in multicast mode on the FMC/CDU as opposed to two-way radio system of communication, but in this day and age especially with the new 787 and 747-800 etc the job of airline pilot is more systems administration than raw 'flying'. The real big picture is instead of needing a human to tie the loose ends together, if a trained AI can do it even better, then why not cut out the middle-man, so to speak? Just look at the DJI Mavic for example, that thing can fly itself, auto-track, take selfies, and has a 7 km range, and small enough to fit into a pocket. It is also fly by wire, so that even if a prop falls out it can auto-compensate (better than TAC, etc) it can finds its own landing to go back home down to resolution of one inch, etc... with redundant GPS systems (and GLONASS) and integrated sonar, lidar, etc.... has real-time obstacle avoidance, can hold position in mid air steady enough to be used as a tripod and sports a 4k video camera, and so many things that make the automated in airbus/boeing seem almost pitiful in comparison... Silicon valley predicts by 2020 self-driving cars will start to become mainstream. What implications for airline aviation? --- Bo Chen

Thanks! the ARPT_RWY fixed it. I don't know how but I think Orbx (or something other third party scenery) messed up my airports... Seems like this is not a PMDG issue after all. --- Bo Chen

I have the same issue I uploaded my flight save and panel state, can someone confirm or duplicate? https://spideroak.com/storage/OVPXG4DJMRSXE33BNNPWC5LUN5PTCNBTHAYDS/shared/1254217-29-1009/PMDG_EGPWS_ERROR.zip?59700a9de5a49971dd40ef78a412060e See video that goes with the saves https://vimeo.com/192984062 --- Bo Chen