The usability of the FMC on multi-monitor systems is bad to put it mildly. All references in the article lead to the original articles in German. And if the nitpickers now go searching for non-functional switches or panels, they will quickly find something in this area: The radar image, which can also be overlaid on the ND, does not exist. I have to say, though, that I dont have any real aircraft experience to compare to, nor do I have the time to climb into one of the fixed-based simulators in my vicinity. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. Full featured failures simulation to cover nearly all QRH scenarios as well as real-world mean time to failure simulations model. Or if the FMC crashes completely because sloppily programmed clickspots cause me to flip the wrong switch on the overhead and power down the flight computers? Forums Index - All forums; Portal page; MSFS 2020; FSX - FS2004 and Earlier; P3D; X-Plane; Real World Aviation; Other Sims; PC Hardware But it is only natural that the cooperation with Boeing which has been stressed time and again and the use of original plans and blueprints should also have its effects here, and not only on systems depth. pmdg 737-600 cabin altitude warning. They are normally turned off for take-off (because they use bleed air which in turn reduces engine power) but have to be turned on after take-off, otherwise the cabin cannot be pressurized. Then set the landing atltude at the destination and the cruise altitude. If there is sufficient customer demand, the ER variants of the -700 and -900 may follow, but a final decision on this has not been taken. He is now our man for the fine details, and the focus of his assessment will lie on visuals, haptics and sound. Note: To update navigation data, you can use the Navigraph PMDG 737 NavData from this post (pmdg_737_msfs_XXXX.rar). And this is why the better the sound, the better the overall impression. An important indicator is always the transition to single-engine flight. Max landing altitude is 8400. But these are minor points, and moreover they depend on subjective perception. The basic concept takes some getting used to at first but should for the most part be familiar from previous PMDG products (particularly the MD-11). A home PC in a standard configuration is enough. This means it is certainly worth your time to take a look at an up-to-date manual. Instead of raising the pitch to 15 and accelerating with a climb rate of at least 1000 fpm, it tiptoes away with 56 ANU and 500600 fpm climb rate. With winglets or without. Frank Schmidts review of the Diamond Katana might have something to do with that I now have an i7 Sandy Bridge processor (2600K) that runs at up to 3.8 GHz. To read their verdict, click read more. No doubt there will always be some room for discussion whether the trim sound, say, is too quiet or whether the spoiler extension on landing sounds quite so or a bit different. The engines dont look entirely new from the factory, and the numerous official PMDG repaints are also a joy to behold. We do so because we feel that forums in which users must engage one another personally are generally warmer, more collegial and friendly. Hey I managed to taxi to the runway with an open L2 door in the 777 just noticed it Where high complexity and exact design meet, even a capable family PC can reach its limits. If I consider how an A320 with FBW behaves which, after all, supports you extremely well during this transition the NGX seems to me to be a bit too harmless in this respect. However, a few isolated but relevant problems will definitely still have to be fixed. Along with the advice above, may I recommend Emi's YouTube channel, which is a wealth of great information on everything 737. What do you think Stefan? I don't think those will cause the horn to go off. x[O0Oj3{1yy'>Mw{4o%w8MO]]Q/i2'wrtwQ-adceB(3Is+PXj42nW29;N$=)r@ Q|
H7d*'q$HzpoF.5uj K6[I$%=Up@.N)! Representing years of work to to leverage the very best that Microsoft Flight Simulator can offer, the PMDG 737-900 is the fourth installment in PMDGs simulation of the magnificent Boeing 737NG series. The directive applies to 9,315 Boeing 737 planes worldwide, including around 2,500 in the US. Ok thanks, now I know where to look. Oski: To a certain degree: yes! #1 Tobble 11. And there is an almost unlimited range of solutions to this problem. In such conditions, a flow experience will never come about. Oski: I would indeed make this recommendation in those cases where this experience has been gained with older FS aircraft. The horn only goes off if the cabin alt goes too high. If there is something to find fault with in comparison with a real autopilot it would be that turns are sometimes initiated a bit harshly in normal LNAV cruise. No, on the contrary: To start the engines, you. Also make sure ALTN is set to AUTO not MAN. Oski: I hope it wasnt me who made that claim. If we want to count all of the lateral and vertical flight guidance by the FMC with LNAV and VNAV as part of automatic flight, we have to begin noting the first imperfections. Sign up for our newsletter for the latest tech news and scoops delivered daily to your inbox. Oski: Objection, your honour! What use is the most detailed systems simulation if I have to click through three sub-panels in critical phases of flight with high workload? . What I observe time and again is that there are suitable and less suitable configurations. <>>>
Advanced animations techniques leveraging the new MSFS engine to truly bring the 737 flight deck to life. Can the PMDG be flown by the numbers? The aircraft they have delivered this time round, however, is really quite beautiful and modelled in great detail; it even features a cabin that is visible from the external view, which is not really typical for PMDG. Firstly it's amazing!!! Look for "Edit Post Signature." But I have every trust in the expertise of PMDGs team and in the communitys swarm intelligence. Stefan: To me, personally, the interaction concept of a panel is one of the topmost quality aspects of an aircraft add on. HiI have just done two flight in the 737-800NGX Winglets aircraft and on both at one point or another in climb i got the cabin altitude There are a few isolated flaws, but in view of the huge complexity of the add-on they should not be overstressed. NOW WATCH: Why in-flight WiFi is so slow and expensive, Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery team has had higher turnover than the rest of the company as launch delays and internal tensions roil the division. A marketing and sales director in real life, he is also a beta tester and project consultant and has been with simFlight for ages. Good things take time, as they say but has a good thing indeed come of this? Quite apart from the CTDs, the general principle of course always applies that where there is light, there is also shadow. This is because, strangely enough, the throttle quadrant does not have its own 2D panel. Edit: page 31 of the introduction PDF I turned off the autopilot, but I cant silence the alarm. Customized sound package that leverages advanced sound recording and playback technology for incredible realism. To guarantee some ahhhs and ohhhs from the FSX community, PMDG has collaborated closely with Boeing. This New Generation has a few years under its belt now, and the overhead panel really doesnt look exactly super-modern to put it mildly. In my view, PMDG has made clear advances here. Sound environment built using recordings from a purpose-instrumented airplane recording effort. As the model is obviously very detailed and consists of very many polygons, less powerful systems display a skeletal airplane for a shorter or longer period of time as the image updates. It can also happen that you experience lockups if you tweak the routing too much in flight. They were set to 38000ft cruise alt and 150ft landing alt on both occasions. I think I just forgot to turn the L and R recirc fans back on after en In the real world, after all, engineers go to incredible lengths to create a human-machine interface that is as optimal as possible this is true in many fields, but particularly in aviation. Is the first impression misleading? His task will be to chair this review and formulate the final verdict. An unnamed operator reported that the switches failed in tests on three different 737 models. 1 0 obj
Also set the altitude of the airport your landing at. I suppose a cockpit is anything but a quiet place. For FSX, this is a real quantum leap and the system is perfect for the PMDG 737 NGX. What is clear, though, is that even the NGX is not immune to such errors. I have to say, though, that I dont have any real aircraft experience to compare to, nor do I have the time to climb into one of the fixed-based simulators in my vicinity. Non related things I saw : Your off schedule descent is telling you, you never reached that altitude. We got to discussing the behaviour of the autopilot in good Flight Simulator add-ons and real aircraft. And at this point, I again need to make an important digression: As usual, I have read the whole spectrum of assessments in the PMDG forums from too sensitive to too sluggish. But those who know me know that I generally dont do this, as no further improvement is possible beyond a superlative. It is clear that PMDG has given a lot of thought to this area, and this has resulted in a first-class interaction concept. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. I think I just forgot to turn the L and R recirc fans back on after engine start. To date, PMDG has not necessarily been known for eye candy; an accurate rating for the external models of previous years might be solid work. Obviously, George also has problems from time to time with leveling off exactly at a given altitude or predicting a descent point precisely. You will never be able to learn to fly using a computer simulation, but you can certainly operate a B737 using correct systems procedures this add-on proves that beyond a doubt. There is a 12,000 foot mod. The CTDs occur sporadically, and the degree to which they occur depends on the PC configuration and any third-party add-ons that are installed. Each configuration can be tuned further to ones hearts content. If it breaks any of the above rules or can be easily answered by our FAQ, it will be deleted. This makes sense because I presume the max cabin altitude is somewhere in the 8-9000 ft range, but my landing altitude was set to 10,900. Doubt PMDG modeled this. Press J to jump to the feed. The following image shows an example of this that occurred with the SID RWY 28 ZUE 1V in LSZH. Stay up to date with what you want to know. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Thursday warned of a risk that pilots and other crew members could lose consciousness if the cabin altitude switches failed. Maybe even too precisely? Holger: Oski, why do you recommend that even experienced Boeing 737 NG pilots should use the documentation (at the very least parts of it) to familiarize themselves with this add-on? Press J to jump to the feed. I could really feel the large mass pushing: The aircraft was quite unwilling to lose airspeed and altitude. Reddit's Official home for Microsoft Flight Simulator. PMDG should really have deserved this distinction, which unlike the simFlight awards is awarded by the reviewers. The other animations are also executed very well. The 2D panel concept has thus not been implemented completely, which I dont quite understand. Im guessing its the alarm that you arent in landing configuration, but I have set the flaps for landing, gear is down, speedbrake is armed, what else is required for the alarm to stop? By default its at 10,000 and if your cruise level is going to be 35,000 feet for example you need to set it to that. In my view, PMDG has made clear advances here. In cases such as these, this also applies to vertical navigation, where a target speed sometimes does not behave the way it should. From what i can remember L and R packs were set to auto, ISO valve auto, bleed 1 & 2 on and APU bleed off and no illuminations out of the ordinary. It seems all the more understandable, then, that such a calculation can, on occasion, go awry To be quite clear: The absolute majority of customers do not have any problems with the product, and PMDG has already released a hotfix to help customers that are suffering crashes. Dr. Stefan Benzinger is a physician in Dachau and has been a member of the simFlight review team for half a year. Nothing to do with the ALT horn going off Paul. 4 0 obj
This page was generated at 03:28. My old computer, a first-generation quad core with 2.93 GHz (QX6800) should probably be able to handle the PMDG, too, but a mixture of complex sceneriesandthe 737 NGX would definitely be pushing it! Under the FAA's order on Thursday, operators have to inspect the switches every 2,000 flight hours, compared with the current 6,000 hours. I probably wont even install the PMDG on my good old dual-core Vista 32-bit PC from Aldi (though other PMDG aircraft and even the FlightSimLabs Concorde run quite acceptably on it). I learned that many airline pilots would sometimes welcome it if real autopilots flew as precisely as they do in the simulation. Leaving recirculation fans OFF would not prevent pressurisation. My specs are: Intel Core i5-2400 CPU 3.1GHz, 8 GB RAM, Windows 7 64-bit and nVidia GeForce GTX470 with 2 displays or one display for the 2D panel and a projector for the external view. I use only a sub-woofer and two tweeters all in all, a pretty standard PC sound system. There is no perfect add-on! For example, this applies to the air conditioning sound and more seriously to all of the altitude callouts including the altitude warning. But this is something I generally dont do after all, I want to assess the sound of the model I bought, not the model I fiddled around with. You took the time to be here, we want to get to know you. But before we can award the reviewers choice to this add-on, PMDG needs to fix the CTDs for good and then we will follow through. Please be courteous, English is not my primary language. It issued a directive ordering that airlines check them for faults. You need to set the outflow valve to auto. It has nothing to do with the cruise alt setting or the land alt setting. With the characteristic eyebrow windows or without. Ive had to wait a long time for this convenience the last payware product that offered this luxury was the Super 80 Pro by Coolsky/Flight1. Today, he consults for and tests various Flight Simulator projects. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Boeing had said earlier that the reported issues with the switches didn't pose a safety concern. But the thing that really amused me slightly was RSRs explanation for why the throttle quadrant was left out: He said it was due to lack of time. The Boeing 737-800 and -900 simply look incredibly good, too! The assessment of the flight envelope as a whole, however, delivers a very good result in my opinion. Oski: I dont even have to go that far. PMDG has currently released the third hotfix for this issue, but some users continue to experience problems. All new models, entirely new textures, a completely new sound environment and tens of thousands of changes, adaptations, improvements and fixes, the PMDG 737-900 is the ultimate realization of flight simulation, forty years in the making. What this means in practice is evident to the customer the first time they load the 737. All of these models will only be available for FSX; an FS2004 version is not planned after all, such a product already exists in the shape of version 1. By the way, the setup option in the CDU allows the acoustic backdrop to be adjusted to personal taste again, this is a real innovation and one of the strengths of the product. Even in critical situations I can make all necessary inputs using my mouse hand without having to let go of the yoke, for instance to open a panel (I have a Saitek yoke/throttle unit and rudder pedals). It really is a joy to work with. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Also same horn that doomed a helios airways flight one time! Another point that definitely deserves a positive mention: All of the load management passengers, cargo and fuel, including the correct distribution across the aircraft is carried out from the cockpit via the CDU. Information Developer: Precision Manuals Development Group, PMDG Distributor: PMDG Home page:http://www.precisionmanuals.com/ Price: 69,99 US $, available through PMDG, Authors: Oskar Oski Wagner Dr. Stefan Benzinger Holger Kistermann. I suppose a cockpit is anything but a quiet place. Do this by clicking the username pull-down at the top right, then selecting "User Settings." Stefan: Another example: The elevators have trim tabs with their own animations at extreme deflections, they move in opposite directions. As a result of this, the A pillar in these airplanes is more inclined, and the bulge does not remind me as much of the nose of my former Latin teacher as the one in the PMDG. I have good frame rates (20+ for instance at Mega-Airport Zrich) when in the VC and even better frame rates (30+) with the 2D panels. Holger: I bought a new computer only three weeks ago. Holger: Nick Collett from Angle of Attack has published a walkaround through the virtual cockpit on Vimeo that shows not only design-specific details but also introduces some of the systems. In such conditions, a flow experience will never come about. So in that respect there is not really a lot that is innovative. In this way, I can at least compare between similar aircraft. In the first few days after the release, there were also some slightly disappointed comments from time to time. WebCabin Altitude: Controllable or Uncontrollable 10,956 views Sep 26, 2020 190 Dislike Share Boeing 737 Pro 1.83K subscribers Following a rapid depressurization, this video shows Have fun! Instead, it is an add-on for intermediate or even (very) experienced desk pilots. All of this runs under Win7 64-bit. The customer has the choice. Holger: Sound is an aspect that should not be neglected after all, it accompanies us from the first click on the panel to the completion of the flight though we are usually unconscious of it. PMDG Simulations Official youTube content to aide new PMDG 737 pilots in getting the most from their purchase. High complexity, good design and great sound do not necessarily guarantee that flying the PMDG will provide hours of fun with lots of ahhhs and ohhhs. The investment has been worthwhile; with very high display settings, MyTraffic, ActiveSkyEvolution and REX2 clouds, the PMDG flies absolutely fluidly at a Mega airport with a good 20+x fps; at the gate, frames may dip to 12-15 on occasion. PMDG Operations Center 2.0 for easy livery installation and ease of receiving free product updates from PMDG. In the beginning, the acoustic backdrop seemed almost too loud to me, but if I hark back to the pre-9/11 era I recall that various airliner cockpit visits at the time really left a similar impression on me. The present 737 interpretation from PMDG, to me, is the climax of this development (for the present?). Also in the case are eight GB of memory and an Nvidia GeForce 570. Each Boeing plane has two pressure switches on board as a safeguard in case one fails, following a 2012 FAA mandate. WebCabin altitude alarm on 737-800NGX, I dont know how to fix it 22 13 Related Topics X-Plane Flight simulation Sim game Gaming 13 comments Best Add a Comment But lets put the 737 to the test, Captain! But the general impression is very good. I just muted the game tho and carried on unpressurized . PMDG gives their customers the good feeling of having bought a package that is very complete in terms of a serious Boeing 737 NG simulation. Should steel brakes or carbon brakes be simulated? You can also tell it would spread a Fire fast in any crash if ON. Fully customized system simulation for all major and minor aircraft systems and components.
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