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18 minutes ago, martinboehme said:

I don't know, I have my doubts about the accuracy of some of the things in this reddit post. Engine anti ice causing serious damage if left on? Why and how? All it's doing is supplying hot bleed air to the front of the engine nacelle. If it's OK to do that at +10 C in the initial climb, how could it cause damage at -40 C in the cruise? (Does someone have access to an FCOM to check this?) 

Somehow, this reddit post smells of sensationalism to me.

It's actually a known issue, reported here: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-wants-faa-to-exempt-max-7-from-safety-rules-to-get-it-in-the-air/ (https://archive.is/f514F)

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Little noticed, the Federal Aviation Administration in December published a Boeing request for an exemption from key safety standards on the 737 MAX 7 — the still-uncertified smallest member of Boeing’s newest jet family.

Since August, earlier models of the MAX currently flying passengers in the U.S. have had to limit use of the jet’s engine anti-ice system after Boeing discovered a defect in the system with potentially catastrophic consequences.

The flaw could cause the inlet at the front end of the pod surrounding the engine — known as a nacelle — to break and fall off.

 

6 minutes ago, ThomseN_inc said:

Could you elaborate that a little further please?

MAX's FMC and VNAV are bugged in real life, they should first fix it in real life before PMDG replicates it

I'm still waiting for a study level long haul airliner to start actually enjoying FS2020. Very disappointed by PMDG to not be able to deliver 777.

why would anyone waste paper to print these manuals ? use a tablet

Won't buy addons for FS2024 either, I will wait for FS2028

I stopped flight simming because of lack of historical weather in MSFS.

This feature was the one that provided me the most joy previously in P3D with ActiveSky

Being able to fly any route at any time, being able to accelerate the simulator and the weather would follow up.

Now I'm restricted to fly only with the real time, and without sim acceleration. Otherwise weather won't match time of the day. If I accelerate a long flight I may end up with daytime weather during night and vice versa. Imagine you arrive at a location during the middle of the night with typical summer daytime temperatures such as 90 °F and with lots of wind while it should be calm. It's unacceptable.

Since we are going to pay in average $100 dollars every 4 years

$100 / (4 * 12) = $2 / month

Would you prefer to pay $2 / month subscription ? I would because I could stop paying when I take a break for a couple of months. (which is currently the case for me since several months)

when you simrate the weather doesn't follow .. so you end up with incoherent weather with the time of the day. (it could be night with daytime weather if it's still daytime in real life)

very disappointed at PMDG I was expecting the 777 last autumn and they didn't even finish the EFB for the 737. what is going on ?

Aamir became a millionaire after the release. He probably took some vacation. I would do the same. This is the problem with successful projects, when you make so much money you have no reason to work anymore.

When I first saw the opening sequence I was worried I was on the wrong movie and that they were screening the first Top Gun, I had to check my ticket. (it was during the afternoon with very few people so it didn't seem impossible)

I suspect Fenix waited for PMDG release so that they can put a shadow on their release. Nobody talks about PMDG anymore. Good move.

So what do we do if we don't have an integrated graphics card ? (AMD) No optimization possible ?

My impression is that this product has been over hyped and I regret buying it impulsively as the performance is disappointing.

The only thing impressive in this product is the core simulation of the plane, which is just Prosim running on the background. What they did on top of that (sounds, graphics, EFB etc.) is not that impressive. So I would rate a 5/5 to the Prosim product and 2.5/5 for Fenix.

Fenix really cheated their way into the flight sim scene using Prosim. Very smart move but unfair to the other developers ... too bad no one ever had that idea before, I guess people never even bothered to take the initiative thinking a company like Prosim would never accept such a deal. This one move is single reason they have been able to achieve what they've done. They started with a simulator already made and already superior to PMDG, so they had all their time to focus on visuals and make everything perfect as possible.

26 minutes ago, abrams_tank said:

I think Aamir's original quote about ProSim, when he disclosed that the Fenix A320 was using ProSim, was that Fenix could also alter the ProSim code base.  So it shouldn't be too hard for Fenix to adopt ProSim for an A319 or an A321.

This will be entirely dependent of Prosim and the license they signed with them. It's hard to believe they would be allowed to do whatever they want with the codebase.

Fenix simulation won't release any other product than A320, because their product is based on Prosim. Prosim only has one A320 simulator. So far there is no proof Fenix is able to develop a plane like this themselves, even by using an already made A320 simulator they are taking too much time for release. Could you imagine how much time would they have needed if they developed from scratch ? 

3 hours ago, bendead said:

I find the posts on this topic way more gentle than Robert reply to FBW Iceman.

I think I missed this, where can I found his reply ? just curious

We usually get updates each month, but not this time....

They promised the release of the 737 for Q4 2021, which ends in less than 2 months yet we still don't have any interior pictures nor beta test announcement. I'd be very surprised if they don't delay it.

I have not been impressed by their presentation. 

On 9/29/2021 at 3:53 PM, Ray Proudfoot said:

Microsoft's servers will be costing them and who knows how long they'll remain free. Maybe a subscription model might come in which would definitely make some think about staying with them.

Do you need subscription to visit https://www.bing.com/maps ? No

We already have access to satellite data for FREE, from both google and bing maps. Millions if not billions are using it daily for different purposes (GPS for example).

So why would you think that MSFS users, who probably represent less than 0.00001% userbase of bing maps would cost Microsoft so much money that they would have to do a subscription model ? doesn't make sense to me.

Bing maps can be used outside of MSFS. Unreal Engine gives the ability to stream bing maps for game developers. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZXTZphgyps) 

So in order to compete with MSFS, one developer might use unreal engine and he would have the same technology available.

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Due to an unexpected Out of Office from one of the members of our Dev Q&A stream

My guess is Seb. The other one with long hair is not really necessary for the Q&A they already made Q&A without him. But Q&A without Seb would be impossible. 

A more tough question to answer would be the opposite : what are serious things to do for an adult who loves complex airliners in MSFS ?