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Next in my series of "How cool is PBR?" 😁, here you see another PBR metallic effect, this time on Virgin Australia's text. These are 3 shots in the same position, but 3 different times of day. Look how the appearance of the text changes (and the lady in the front) as the sun changes position. Looks so cool in the sim. While this livery is relatively "easy", with anything metal on the plane, you're painting on 1 albedo (normal) texture map, and a metallic map's 3 of 4 channels. One thing you learn (unless you like duplicating work a lot), is to have the base texture to its final version before working on the PBR effects, or you're doing the work on 4 different places every time, LoL. The finished effect is very cool though, and well worth the effort IMO.

Hehe.....the paint is hard to look at in bright sunlight...but is somehow "appealing" to me. 🤣 (Full-on Banana pun) I'm actually enjoying painting this one 🙂

So I am playing with the 700 series add-on for PMDG and I have a couple of questions that are probably answered somewhere in the 3000 pages of manual but I want to make sure it is not a bug and see if anyone else has the answer right off the bat rather than searching for hours in a book thicker than the Bible. SEE IMAGE BELOW. CLICK ON TO FULL SCREEN IT. 1. When I turn on the lighting for the cockpit and turn it just past halfway the back panels on the MCP LEDs turn blue. Is this normal ops? It never did this in the 800 series. 2. The TCAS Indicators never went away on the MFDs. The indicators were on during power up, pre-flight check and on into the flight. I use FS2Crew to do the start up sequence and he didn't seem to indicate a problem with the TCAS system but the markings persisted throughout the entire flight making it hard to see my VSI and altitude. 3. When I turned the lighting nobs to turn on the background flood lighting on the MCP and the MFD panels they had no effect on the lighting until AFTER we landed and started the shutdown sequence. Then the lighting turned on. Normal operation in the 800 was for the lights to activate the moment you turned the dial and light up the consoles. 4. I use FS Passengers X and had to go through the whole FS2Crew work around to get the FSPassenger mini window to show.. however... it has ANOTHER panel icon that sits on top of it now and will flicker off and on but mostly it stays on, covering up the damn mini window... -_- Anyone experience these problems (if they are problems on the 700 series PMDG 737) and know a work around? Thanks.

So I am playing with the 700 series add-on for PMDG and I have a couple of questions that are probably answered somewhere in the 3000 pages of manual but I want to make sure it is not a bug and see if anyone else has the answer right off the bat rather than searching for hours in a book thicker than the Bible. SEE IMAGE BELOW. CLICK ON TO FULL SCREEN IT. 1. When I turn the lighting for the cockpit and turn it just past halfway the back panels on the MCP LEDs turns blue. Is this normal ops? It never did this in the 800 series. 2. The TCAS Indicators never went away on the MFDs. These were on while on the ground and never went off. I use FS2Crew to do the start up sequence and he didn't seem to indicate a problem with the TCAS system. 3. When I turned the lighting nobs to turn on the background flood lighting on the MCP and the MFD panels they had no effect on the lighting until AFTER we landed and started the shutdown sequence. Then the lighting turned on. Normal operation in the 800 was for the lights to activate the moment you turned the dial and light up the consoles. 4. I use FS Passengers X and had to go through the whole FS2Crew work around to get the FSPassenger mini window to show.. however... it has ANOTHER panel icon that sits on top of it now and will flicker off and on but mostly it stays on, covering up the damn mini window... -_- Anyone experience these problems (if they are problems on the 700 series PMDG 737) and know a work around? Thanks.

Here are a few screenshots I took on my routes using the Boeing 737-700 and -600 by PMDG. All use default scenery. Trip #1 Southwest Airlines KMSY-KEYW (New Orleans - Key West) on the 737-700 Pushed out of gate, taxiing to the active: On the runway on takeoff run: Rolling to the right, about to fly over water: Flying over some of what I think are the keys: Just after touchdown: Flight #2 WestJet CYVR-CYWG (Vancouver to Winnipeg) on the 737-600 On take-off run on the active: A nice slice of Canada: These clouds don't look too nice: Cruising at 37K: Finally, landing in the snow at Winnipeg: Thanks for viewing my pictures, they do need more work... default scenery isn't the prettiest!

Requesting the Wynn Resorts N88WR livery for the PMDG 737-700.

Slipstream Virtual Airways recently released its new repaint for the PMDG 737-700 NGX. Check out this video by one of our pilots on YouTube.http://youtu.be/mdgfFAy2GFAVisit us at www.slipstreamairways.comSlipstream Airways is also on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/SlipstreamAirways

Hi guys, great job on the 737-800/900!! Now where is the teaser images of the 600 and 700 series. You can count me as a costumer for that expansion. Same you can't pre-order it!! PMDG is there any news on the Expansion Pack??? Thanks, Aaron G.

Hello simmers, I recently got great Southwest Airlines textures for my POSKY 737-700, even the winglets were correct. However, one detail I noticed was not included was the radar pod. Most of Southwest's -700's have radar pods on the top, and I was wondering if anyone knew how to included this. I have a WestJet 737-700 with the radar pod, and i've tried applying SWA textures to that model, but the radar pod wasn't textured, or placed in the correct spot. Does anybody know how to do this? This is a real picture of the radar pod I took at Minneapolis-St. Paul Intl at the Humphrey Terminal. This is another picture in which you will see the radar pod on both 737's in the picture. I found it on Flight Aware, a live flight tracking website. If you don't know about this website, you really should check it out, I track real flights on it all the time, and model them on FS9. Check it out here. Thanks

So I am playing with the 700 series add-on for PMDG and I have a couple of questions that are probably answered somewhere in the 3000 pages of manual but I want to make sure it is not a bug and see if anyone else has the answer right off the bat rather than searching for hours in a book thicker than the Bible. SEE IMAGE BELOW. CLICK ON TO FULL SCREEN IT. 1. When I turn on the lighting for the cockpit and turn it just past halfway the back panels on the MCP LEDs turn blue. Is this normal ops? It never did this in the 800 series. 2. The TCAS Indicators never went away on the MFDs. The indicators were on during power up, pre-flight check and on into the flight. I use FS2Crew to do the start up sequence and he didn't seem to indicate a problem with the TCAS system but the markings persisted throughout the entire flight making it hard to see my VSI and altitude. 3. When I turned the lighting nobs to turn on the background flood lighting on the MCP and the MFD panels they had no effect on the lighting until AFTER we landed and started the shutdown sequence. Then the lighting turned on. Normal operation in the 800 was for the lights to activate the moment you turned the dial and light up the consoles. 4. I use FS Passengers X and had to go through the whole FS2Crew work around to get the FSPassenger mini window to show.. however... it has ANOTHER panel icon that sits on top of it now and will flicker off and on but mostly it stays on, covering up the damn mini window... -_- Anyone experience these problems (if they are problems on the 700 series PMDG 737) and know a work around? Thanks.

Hey guys....been on a painting binge lately, and being part of the PMDG beta team...I was lucky to have early access to the excellent Baby Boeing they are getting ready to release (according to an official post by RSR). Anyway....here are 8 of the Baby Boeings I have ready and will start uploading now. (one may be a Baby Baby Boeing, hehe). I think you guys will like the Baby Boeing....she is sooooo cute! and SHORT! After painting all those A330-300s....this thing looks absolutely stubby compared to it! I'm tired. 😴

I have no idea when it will be released, but they released the paint kit to the Beta Team painters (and I happen to be one) 🙂 This one will be ready for your hangar when they release it (Trust me...I have no clue when that will be...I'm not on the team that has that info...and even if I were...you know I can't tell ya!) 🙂

Hello simmers, Has anybody been able to make/acquire winglet textures for the Southwest Airlines 737-700 by Project Opensky? I recently flew Southwest, KAUS (Austin-Bergstrom Intl)-KDEN (Denver Intl)-KMSP (Minneapolis-St. Paul Intl), and I was lucky enough to get a window seat right on the wing. I took some great pictures, and I decided to recreate this flight on my FS2004/FS9. I already had wing views installed, and as I was taking off from Austin-Bergstrom, I looked out my window, and realized that my winglets were just generic blue, red, and gold. THIS MADE ME VERY ANGRY!!! Could somebody please tell me where I could find winglet textures for the Project OpenSky Boeing 737-700 for Southwest Airlines? I have been going kinda crazy all day trying to find them!!! Thank You!!

Hi all Along with the release of the -600 yesterday, Mr. Randazzo also mentioned features included in the update to the -700. As this update seems to have gone unnoticed here at AVSIM, I'll list some of the main points here and a link to the PMDG announcement. Forgive me if there's already a thread on this. The biggest and most notable change is that we have folded in new PMDG Lateral Flight Path simulation, updating the very core of how the flight management system computes, plans and and draws the "magenta line" that ultimately gets followed by the airplane. The new LFP simulation conforms to ICAO standards for computation of paths and the arcs flown to connect each segment of a flight plan, thus yielding a far more accurate simulation than all previous generations of PMDG products. In concert with this change, we have also provided a significant improvement to the vertical profile simulation, as it is now able to capitalize on greater accuracy in the mathematical computations from the lateral path model, thus resulting in greater accuracy and more consistent results along the vertical profile. These two are heavily intertwined, and this update represents a significant step forward in the core flight management logic. Magenta line drawing is far more consistent and accurately matches real-world results along programmed routes of flight. Improved accuracy of lateral deviations from flight path. (LNAV sticks to the line like glue in most scenarios) Lateral Path accurately predicts arcs to be flown and will show "unflyable" arcs if aircraft speed plan is too high for the procedure. LNAV now provides descreet data to other consumers for improved aircraft performance and accuracy (VNAV, FMS, Fuel Prediction, etc)Greatly improved accuracy and stability of VNAV path computation. Full VNAV Constant Descent Angle capabilities with correct approach behaviors to real world application. Improved roll model behavior of flight director to conform to expected aircraft performance. There's also an update to the parking brake behaviour to make it behave more like the real aircraft. This caught me off-guard yesterday when I loaded up the aircraft. The trick is to apply full brake pressure both when setting and releasing the parking brake. https://forum.pmdg.com/forum/main-forum/general-discussion-news-and-announcements/206425-29jul22-pmdg-737-600-is-released-and-some-other-news-bits-too