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On Approach to Dallas this evening in the FSL A320X...enjoy Oh and do visit my YouTube page to see the full motion versions previous adventures

Hi PMDG/All, I have had the 747 since release day and I wanted to provide some constrictive feedback which I hope will generate healthy discussion. It is appropriate to note here that I am overall impressed and the quality is consistent with previous releases (to which I have thousands of hours logged). I wanted to focus this post on the parts I would like to be improved/future features. I think it was good for the community as a whole to have the release co-incide with the FSL A320. I do not want to go into the comparative release issues with that product but I feel like I wanted to start by highlighting parts of that product I am extremely impressed with and wonder if we can have it included in the PMDG product line. 1) Comparatives to the FSL A320. - FSL comes with a functioning remote MCDU/FMS that is accessible through chrome on a remote device (iPad for example). This adds to the immersion massively and saves having to purchase 3rd part apps. Could we include this? - GSX integration, I feel that FSL has gone beyond the norm here with GSX integration. For example, one puts the fuel required into the init B (INIT REF) part of the MCDU and GSX, through the refuel function, will refuel the aircraft in real time, same with the boarding. This is incredible immersive and lacks in the 747. - Clouds, in darkness with landing lights on, the lights bounce and reflect off the clouds in overcast conditions, again, incredibly immersive that would be nice on the PMDG. - Flight dynamics, general question, I massively notice that the FSL flight dynamics are taken out of the sim, is this the same with the PMDG? As I feel it still behaves similar to the p3d/fsx flight dynamics engine. 2) General feedback - The visual external model is fantastic and the most notable 'step up' from previous PMDG lines, - The sounds are great - Performance and VAS usage for release candidate is very impressive and not easily achieved in our environment, bravo. - Systems are great, in my opinion, further can be done to general wear and tare (service based failures across all fleets, (i have noticed the engine oil quantity feature) 3) Room for improvement a) - See comparatives section b) - Overall, I was expecting more innovation from this product comparing to how long it's been since the 777 release. Maybe these will come in future service packs. I know this is a vague sentence but hopefully some of my first section highlights some of my thoughts. c) - FIX page FPS drop - I've historically talked to the TECH team about this known issue where FIX page range rings bring FPS down significantly, I hoped this would be fixed for the 747 release but have noticed it here. d) - Ground friction, speaking to current flight crew, they all consistently mention that brakes need to be regularly auctioned when taxiing in (and sometimes taxiing out) (riding the brakes)) on idle thrust. I removed the dynamic-friction FSUIPC mod as Ryan suggested but find that there is too much ground friction compared to real life. e) *EDIT - The animations are notriously jerky (refresh rate), really noticeable and takes a lot of immersion away (ref# 'warbirds' comment) 4) Comments that may be out of my knowledge (possible bugs?) a) why is there no 250/10,000ft speed restriction in the fmc by default? Thanks guys, I may notice further comments later and will but a *EDIT by the comment. Really interested in your thoughts. Cheers,

when I select (C) this option jumps to the parking checklist and does not execute the sub actions within the "After Landing Checklist" and I have to go back so that these checklists are carried out. I really don't know what happened or what went wrong with my V1.8 update. Any help or solution to this please and thanks for the update