Bdub22

Have you not been on the internet since its release?

I have the PMDG 777-F, so - same thing and there are parts of that flight deck that really bug me. Just over the MCP panel, there's this portion of very low texturing that always annoys me because it always seems so silly on a place to try and save some data, considering we look at the glare shield so often. The PMDG 777 series displays annoy me also during day time ops. When you try to brighten them, they just seemingly lose contrast, instead of becoming brighter. I let this slip because the night lighting in that plane is some of the best night light modeling you'll find in any 2024 plane. I think my problem is that I compare everything to the Fenix A32x's and they've spoiled me when it comes to modeling and now with V3, system depth -- and when you consider they're asking for the least amount of money compared to the others, well -- there's some frustration. To answer your original questions (sorry), the PMDG 777 has better texturing and modeling than the bluebird 757, considerably.

The last word I would describe the cockpit is breathtaking. I was actually pretty disappointed with the texturing and overall quality of the modeling work considering this plane is considerably more expensive than the Fenix A320, which has a flawless cockpit and modeling. I'm also a little ticked off they've kept their Discord off for nearly 24 hours now, inhibiting real time discussion / trouble shooting with other users. I understand there was drama with the delayed release, but surely Bluebird knows this is the internet and there will always be tin-hat, absolutely terrible people making assumptions, but by keeping their Discord off this long, I'm sure that's not helping at all.

Yeah, whenever LRBS speaks, I pretty much shut up and listen. I've learned A LOT over the years of reading what they post and if they're saying the flight characteristics are off...they're off.

If go to Flight Radar 24 and filter for the 757, you’ll see there’s a 757-300 flying to Hawaii to Denver right now. Edit: sorry, I noticed after I posted you specifically called out Delta. My bad.

Interesting, I booted up MSFS2024 about an hour ago and I didn't have an update and they're always forced updates.

This is one of the reasons I love the flight sim community. People working tirelessly to create something this in-depth and beneficial and completely for free. Does anyone know if this dev has a donations page?

I've seen some folks on FsElite criticizing the exterior model, especially the engines. I don't usually look at previews with a magnifying glass and kind of gloss over them relatively quickly, but I'm wondering if anyone who has seen the exterior modeling previews has any opinions on it.

Is the clown emoji your signature?

Ok, it’s official: they’re saving big changes and upgrades for their next version release. These beta updates are so small that it only makes sense now that they’re saving more ambitious features for future versions. My opinion, at least.

My fear, and I guess what I strangely hope for, is that they're saving major weather updates for the next version of MSFS. Weather, that is in 2028 or 2030. See what I did there? I'll see myself out.

When I read through these update notes, that's the first thing I thought. They're just fixing small, under-the-hood stuff, which is welcomed -- but I think they're saving all these bigger issues we really want fixed for the next version, whether that's 2028 or whichever year. It's not the end of the world so long as the next version really does address these issues. Would be nice to get them sooner than later.

Honestly, I thought the FBW and the Ini Airbus was good enough until I purchased the Fenix. It's on a totally separate level that most other addons don't come close to. Who knows how much longer the NEO's will be and if you've got a spare 50 bucks or so, it is completely worth it.

Water is on ultra and as I mentioned, the tile lines can and still do happen on land, so....

Only 2 things really bug me right now: 1) the giant tile lines that are mostly present in water, but sometime on land -- that you can see through the clouds and 2) the newly added airport lights at all airports are comically huge from far away. They leave little to the imagination of having to try and locate the field when giant white boxes are hanging above the airport.