BrammyH

So, reverse order of complexity isn't a factor? The tweaks to the -600 are a lighter lift than the -800. Same with the -900. The -800 with 3-4 airframes and different wing tips. I work in project management and this is pretty much the order I'd go in too. Now, yes, they should have just done all this before they released. But they didn't.

The -600 just has one airframe. The -700 has passenger, cargo, BBJ. Along with blended and split scimitar winglets. This is also why the -900 sits in the middle of the pricing.

Did you bring enough of what you are on for the rest of the class? 🙂 In this day and age I could use it.

You are thinking that PMDG will lower the price by $10? I mean the bird goes for $69 now. The -700 and the -800 had the same launch price.

I paid $69.99 for the -800 in 2023. It is now $74.99 The -700 shows $69.99 in their store. It is marked down on their end from $74.99 So I expect today, unless they give a grace period, the full price will go to $74.99 They ran a largely BS "sale" on the birds they said would expire with the 2024 version. For reasons I guess.

I think the upgrade price will be ~$30 USD. The full price will go $74 to match the -800.

I have the -800 and -900 for 2024, and the -600 for 2020 only. So the -700 for me is a full price. Plus, since with the -800 they ended the $5 "sale" price so I imagine the -700 will go to $74. It's going to come down to how many BBJ liveries are included. Maybe it's the lack of a paintkit, but the BBJ2 liveries are slow to appear on .to. I am more tempted to get the -600 upgrade. The -700 sits more in the middle of the -600 and the -800 so having a short rocket ship is fun.

Given the context of my question was: why not more Boeing stuff?, no, I was not trying to swing them. I want them to make the same peripherals for Boeing for sure. I fly Airbus more these days since I have the hardware for it. I only have the FCP and MCDU tho. While the stuff is inexpensive, it adds up fast. Also, don't forget just how popular the FBW A20n is. I see it all the time on Vatsim with airlines that don't even have them.

When I talked with them at Expo last year the rep said they routinely scrape airframe info from Volanta and Vatsim. The Airbus is more popular according to their records, so they focus on that. The rep said he is leading a charge for more Boeing stuff internally but his boss is very numbers driven.

They were pretty quick on updates to the MP with the a340. Also, transferring it over to the Ini store when it was available was very simple. Took about 24 hours and all I had to do was send a screenshot. I think they have an arrangement with MS to get the updates through faster.

No. the top end of the SID is not the cruise altidude. Lets say I am flying out of Boston to MSP with a cruise altitude of FL370. All the SIDs at BOS have a top of 5k. On Vatsim, usually departure will then clear you to 14k. It sounds like dialing in 5k on the FCP causes the bug. What it sounds like its happening is the plane wants you to set FL370 and not 5K in the FCP.

I am not too fussy over exterior and cabin textures. However, if the flight deck doesn't have good visuals it is tough to get past.

With SPAD, I just remove all the bindings for the device in MSFS. Then set that as default for all planes or whatever it is. That essentially disables the device.

@FPVSteve have you tried the new patch? We have similar systems and I m curious how it performs with the cabin lite.

A couple cups of coffee 🙂

Nah. It's pretty common with React videos where one content creator plays the other video and rebuts or supports. We get this a lot in other gaming spaces.

Fenix said they need to get the VNAV update first. When that comes out, I'll start looking forward to release. They also did one last year with a 6 month old window of "end of the year" and flew right by that one.

I am curious if the performance is better with this version. I also imagine SimAppPro will need an update for the new airframe type with the PW.

Disregard

V1 said he does it every now and then to keep his skills sharp in case AT fails.

One other suggestion, have it so you can upload a .csv file of your sceneries. As a bonus have it only give routes to sceneries you own. But at least showing on the list if you have the sceneries will work.

Yeah, that makes sense.

A lot of the VAs I am in do the shared type rating thing. So, having the a319, A320, A321 (and neo versions) grouped would be essential in my part. Same with the 737s. I don't mind a grind to unlock a widebody, or another narrowbody rating. But grinding out each a320 variant would be a non-starter for me.

Do you need to add the SDK stuff to the config file? Some of the ACARs I use needed this added to the 737_options.ini file. [SDK] EnableDataBroadcast=1 EnableCDUBroadcast.0=1 EnableCDUBroadcast.1=1

The 772LR is a fun bird. Thing is a rocket ship.