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Not really anything new despite several updates. They recently announced a version 2 of the 727 with lots of updates and improvements. No real information on what the improvements or other details or any sort of time line. I guess we will know more in the future! I hope they throw in a non hush kit model at some point soon.

This is good news. I was planning to purchase it so I could fly into ATL and than into the new MK Studios Key West as soon as I can get in front of my PC. After the DRM news it was put on hold. I can now go back to the regularly scheduled program now.

I certainly understand the need to protect a developer from piracy and it is definitely a problem. I don't mind a kernal or whatever opening in the back ground to confirm my purchase as long is that is all its doing. What I do find incredibly stupid is the need to launch this program everytime I wish to use the product. This is not what I should be getting for the price of admission. I have a few planes that do have something running in the background but it does not require me to do anything when I use it. I get the piracy concerns but they need to find a better way. At this time it won't be purchasing the ATL coming out.

Thanks I am going to try this.... I am sure I got a few more that I will have to do the same!

Way back in the early days of FS2020 I purchased the Fly Tampa CPH (Copenhagen Kastrup) in the Marketplace. It has been updated and despite it being based on an older scenery package it still looks pretty good. It is supposedly FS2024 compatible but I don't think it is officially from Fly Tampa so this might be the problem with the FS2024 Marketplace. Many online retailers show it as FS2024 compatible. Today I decided I wanted to install it into my FS2024 since its supposedly compatible and it should not be a problem since I bought it for FS2020. However it simply does not show up in the FS2024 Marketplace. Even though I bought it for FS2020 they won't let me try it in FS2024 whether it works or not. Any work around? I suppose its a dated scenery anyway and probably sooner rather than later a nice new updated scenery for FS2024 will be released but for now it would sure be nice to use the scenery I paid for in the Marketplace. I typically don't buy from the marketplace in fear of this very thing but in rare cases it was the only option at the time.

I have had mixed results with SU5 and in a way I wish I could just go back to SU4. Everyone has different results and some of it is probably down to system specs but for me its a few steps back. Some of the positives I have noticed is the Dawn and Dusk lighting seems improved and last night I noticed the sun shining through the trees and made a nice shadow on the runway. Maybe this is not new but 1st time I have noticed it was with SU5? At the airport textures seem sharper than before and I notice less ghosting than before. At first when I fired up SU5 for the 1st time I was pretty excited for what I was seeing. However this morning I did my 1st flight and this time I noticed some pretty bad issues. Above a few thousand feet my ground textures are way more blurry than before. In SU4 I had pretty good looking textures. Not perfect but definitely very tolerable. Same for the trees in SU4 most rendered correctly and now most of them look like green rocks. Honestly at the moment its not a very good experience. The worst thing is at 36,000 feet my clouds looked very hazy and have this snow effect in them like on a old TV not tuned to a channel showing a much of snow on the screen. I occasionally had this before but its way worse in SU5. Also I am still getting many lines in the water and this was supposedly fixed. Performance however is of coarse very good even on my slightly dated system. I have noticed an improvement in the UI menu system. Before SU4 it was pretty bad and seemed to suffer from memory leakage issues. SU4 improved things greatly but was still not perfect. Now its pretty smooth and I no longer get those funny pops and clicks from my speakers when I use the system. For the record I have not had the time to go in and have a look at my user settings. Its very possible they have been downgraded when I installed SU5 and that putting in my tweaks that I have done will improve the looks. Hopefully this is all it is. Also I feel SU5 has done a good job of reminding me that my 2021 build PC is now slipping into lower spec category. A new system is the forecast in the Fall but it worked pretty solid before!

Like everyone else I can't wait for the Fenix Neo's. It seems more and more at my local airport I see more Neo's than Ceo's these days. Same for the Max I see more of them at times than the older NG's at this point. I think its becoming pretty important that we get some Neo's and Max's in our simulator. As much as I want the Neo from Fenix I am not fully expecting it to arrive just yet. My prediction is early to mid Summer time frame (hopefully). Some Neo updates from Fenix would be nice but I can see why they don't. It could just very well show up and drop in weeks time. So it just might be sooner rather than later! The Max is interesting. You have the iFly Max 8 which is a nice model and its already out. They are supposedly coming out with the 9 and when and if the 7 and 10 are certified they plan to do those. However we have not seen a single update from iFly regarding the Max 9 since they announced it last August. At this rate the Max 7 and Max 10 will be certified before we ever even see the Max 9. Maybe like the Fenix its coming sooner rather than later and they are just being hush hush about it. We supposedly have the PMDG Max series aircraft but we really don't know anything about it other than PMDG occasionally dangling a carrot in front of us. I believe I read the PMDG Max has been on and off the burner since 2020 so I am starting to feel its probably never actually coming. I believe it was real close but RR at PMDG does not want to go head to head with iFly but does not want to publicly say that. Very similar to the sound update for the 777. It will be coming forever! Maybe with a bit of luck the PMDG Max will drop between now and the 747-100? I think the 747-100 is a ways off and PMDG will need another revenue stream since they just released the 737-700. I would be really surprised if the 747-100 makes it before Xmas and PMDG could probably use some revenue in the 4th quarter of this year. Just food for thought but it does make sense!

As far as I know installation went smoothly. I can always uninstall and reinstall it but I doubt it will make a difference. I suspect its some sort of missing texture that is preventing the view from rendering correctly. Maybe some of the paint jobs are still being worked on? View is fixed so you can't zoom or move it. Mostly 100% stock FS2024 install. I don't use Chaseplane or anything like that. Some of the other views are also a bit messed up but others are fine. Some show part of a window frame texture and look fine. I don't spend a lot of time in these views but it comes in handy when you see something cool and you want to take a screen shot showing the wings. Comes in handy when you want to see those flaps coming down. A nice clean view like before would be a nice touch.

I think I got it figured out... This is what I get in my wing views with the new model. Not sure if its a missing texture or not but I like it better when it was mostly just a clean wing view. This is the passenger version. The left side is much the same but not as bad.

I would love to do a screen shot but not sure how? Let me see if I can figure it out! Right now I am flying from SIT-SEA in the Alaska 737-700 colors.

Picked this up on release day. For me its okay and I don't seem to have any performance issues with it. I do get the VRAM error but I also get it with many other aircraft and it never seems to cause any issues. Sometimes I feel its more of an internal issue with FS2024 than anything really wrong at least on many systems. In the cockpit it looks a little better but not hugely so. Same for the exterior textures don't seem to really really be much different. I am hearing the exterior textures in this release are not the final versions so guess we can expect better textures in the future. A lot of extra modeling detail both inside and out which was not mandatory but kind of cool. I am looking forward to the same updates for the 600, 800 and 900. I also a bit perplexed that all the effort PMDG is putting into this plane in order to improve it but for some reason can't be bothered to do a non winglet version. I guess we will just have to wait for a competitor to make a better 737NG. Only real issue I am having that is bothering me I am a wing view nut at times. In the models for FS2020 and the earlier FS2024 models you would get a nice clean view of the wing. For now the same views exist but you got some sort of annoying box looking thing in the way. For example go to Views and Showcase and select External 8. You get a nice view behind the wing but it has some sort of textureless box destroying the nice clean view you had before. Not sure if its just anomaly with my particular paint or will be magically fixed in a future update but for now I liked it better before.

I have had an issue occasionally with the PMDG 737 in FS2024 when the Jetway does not properly meet the aircraft. It will be about 2 meters away. It does not happen all the time but does happen maybe 50% of the time. Is this the issue you are having? Sorry I don't have a fix but the PMDG model is the only one with the issue so PMDG must have not configured something correctly. This is the new FS2024 model. I never had this issue with the PMDG 737 in FS2020! Right now I just hope it fixes itself in a future update.

I thought it was a great interview. It would be a truly outstanding achievement if they can deliver everything they say they can this year. I am naturally skeptical they will be able to deliver it that fast but if it has already been in the works for a while now it might be possible. We will just have to see what they deliver and the ball is in their court so lets see what they bring to the table before jumping to conclusions. One thing I can't help but wonder if at least some of the team that worked for Qualitywings on the 787 are now working on this plane for Vector Studios? We may never know the answer to that question but I am thinking probably! Also I feel at this point we need some actual credibility from Ellie. If you have worked on many planes for previous sims and for FS2020 what planes are they? I have been into flight simulation since 1984 and we have many famous names when it comes to development and I don't recall any of them having the first name Ellie. Granted my memory is not as good as it used to be but if we actually know some projects they worked on we will know what kind of credibility Vector Studios has. I truly believe our hobby is evolving and in many ways its out with the old and in with the new. We witnessed this with Fenix which nobody knew anything about yet they have this outstanding product with award winning support. So it's definitely possible here with Vector and the 787. Of coarse for every Fenix and Vector Studios projects you are bound to get some real bad stuff as well.

FSS has said it will come in a future update eventually. However that was a while ago and we have not seen it yet. Actually the freighter version was originally released without a hushkit but it went away with one of the updates and it has not come back yet. Seems like a fairly simple thing to accomplish. They could probably even have it so you can select them in the EFB like the winglets option. The FSS 727 and PMDG with the lack of a non winglet model for its 737NG is really the only thing that bothers me about these developers.

Same here...I am hesitant on picking this up because they have not announced the 1 yet. If they create the 1 it makes it very easy to complete the rest of the series (50, 100 and 250). If they do in fact announce they will make the 1 I will gladly invest in the 500. I thought I heard they just might do the other variants if it sells really well. So hopefully its a big seller.