PMDG 777 Released

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11 minutes ago, lwt1971 said:

short on youtube

I have my browser righteously configured to block such abominations. Objectionable and obnoxious little wna-ers. 

[MrFuzzy 2,141]

10 minutes ago, lwt1971 said:

The release announcement was a reel for their facebook page which also then got released as a short on youtube, and reels are 9:16 aspect ratio usually per facebook recommendations (definitely vertically oriented). Can't speak for 21:9 monitors, the official trailer shows as it should on my 16:9 screen for being a wider aspect ratio video.
 

It shows like this on a 21:9 screen, as I wrote before.

4 minutes ago, JRBarrett said:

Look at what? I don’t see anything obviously wrong in your screen capture.

Mmm... Okay 🙂

P.S.

PMDG please take my observations as suggestions to improve on these details, my intention is not to make fun of your work.

[JRBarrett 3,297]

18 minutes ago, MrFuzzy said:

Mmm... Okay 🙂

I’m serious - what specifically are you trying to show in the photo? If there is a problem, it is certainly not obvious to me. Again, I am viewing that post on a mobile phone. Maybe it looks different when viewed on a PC?

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52 minutes ago, JRBarrett said:

Why would you buy it via the Marketplace unless you had no other choice? Obviously if you are on XBox you can get it no other way, but if you are on PC it is far better to get it directly from PMDG.

The problem with the Marketplace is getting timely updates. If PMDG releases an update to the aircraft, you can get the update instantly using the PMDG Operations Center. The same update can take many days or even weeks to make it through the Marketplace acceptance process.

I go with the Marketplace when I can these days.   I'm happy to wait an extra week or two for updates than bother with the hassle of maintaining product keys, installs, separate accounts,  etc.    Plus reinstalling is a breeze.

I totally get why people prefer direct purchases with the creator given the benefits of timely updates and in some cases, features missing in XBox versions.    We all have our different preferences.   👍

Cheers,

Matt.

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16 hours ago, Konterhalbe said:

The PMDG 737 doesn't really pause the sim at the Top of Descend.
Will this issue be fixed  on the 777? Or has the 777 the same "Pause at ToD" logic as the 737?

The way I'm experiencing the pause issue is, say you wake up around 7 am and set off on a roughly 12 hour 737 BBJ flight. As long as you don't save your flight in between, the pause at TOD sort of works. You can take note of your ETA at TOD occasionally throughout the day. Also taking note of your estimated fuel on arrival at destination as your flight progresses.

But now it's around 6:30 pm, you're about to reach TOD, but kids are screaming, cats are meowing, dogs are barking, the spaghetti is overcooking, life outside the virtual cockpit. You don't get back to your computer til around 8 pm. The fuel and your position have been paused all right. But elapsed time since takeoff is now maybe around 12 1/2 hours instead of about 11 hours, what it should be.

It's not a huge deal, you can just try and fine tune the time slider back to roughly where it should be. But if you're a flight planning geek, you can pretty much only plan your fuel burn and just forget about your flight time. What's so strange is that if you go in and out of the developer mode any time as often as you wish and pause there, you can totally pause both fuel and time no problem whatsoever, and resume your flight. Sure, the live weather will continue to update as you resume, so it won't necessarily match, but one could use Active Sky to fix that if one were very particular. Just haven't figured out how to link developer mode pause to PMDG's pause at TOD.

So yeah, I basically agree with your statement up there. It's anyway still no real pause at TOD. The whole thing does what jet engines do with air, and it'll be a lot more annoying with the 777 when you want to really try and mimic long haul rw flights, perhaps departing with a delay, where you're running a tight schedule in addition to being worried about how much fuel you'll have when you arrive. But oh well, there are worse things.

[MrFuzzy 2,141]

41 minutes ago, JRBarrett said:

I’m serious - what specifically are you trying to show in the photo? If there is a problem, it is certainly not obvious to me. Again, I am viewing that post on a mobile phone. Maybe it looks different when viewed on a PC?

Not only that. It could have been made for smartphone screens and still look correct, considering that a phone can be rotated easily. Instead, there you have an image of a 777 which is so cropped that you can only see one "7" and only five windows.

I don't know how it can be considered correct. Maybe people are getting more and more used to consume content on smartphones, but the fact remains that our eyes are placed horizontally on our heads, not vertically!

Even when taking photos or videos with a smartphone, the screen should be kept horizontal. But I feel like this battle was lost long time ago... 😞 

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23 minutes ago, MrFuzzy said:

the screen should be kept horizontal

do NOT get me started....😡

[psolk 3,260]

So we can't complain about the lack of information anymore so we will complain about HOW they give us information including how they format their videos...   

There will always be something LOL.... 

[Tuskin38 7,141]

3 hours ago, MrFuzzy said:

It shows like this on a 21:9 screen, as I wrote before.

Mmm... Okay 🙂

P.S.

PMDG please take my observations as suggestions to improve on these details, my intention is not to make fun of your work.

Most people don’t use 21:9 screens 

[rjquick 308]

PMDG should delay the release of the 777 until they can get this promo video aspect ratio thing sorted out.

Edited June 20 by rjquick
Grammar.

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20 hours ago, Bdub22 said:

It won't work like it did with FSX / P3D because of live weather. The sim is never really paused. For example, if you hit the escape button during flight, it'll pause your flight but when you come back, you can see the sun and weather is in different position. 

Which does make sense if I start a flight with real weather and real time.
I always use real weather but a time offsett by full hours to real world time.

Pausing the sim and resuming should keep the real weather and time offsett setting.

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16 hours ago, Lord Farringdon said:

I presume its related to live. If you attempt a flight in live in order to simulate actual weather and day/night conditions then, any pause of the flight is not pausing live since then it would no longer be live. Which begs the question, why would you even want to pause a flight in live unless live was not important to the flight?  Of course if you're not using live, then a pause where the sim continues (because it needs that feature for live)  probably doesn't matter because you can just readjust the time as required with preset weather. I have no idea otherwise why they would choose that approach. 

Cheers

Terry

 

 

It does matter to me as I don't always have a combined and uninterrupted timeslot of 10-12h to do a flight in real time.
And I don't want to end up with 14+ hrs on the aircraft clock when I resume my flight.

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21 hours ago, Bdub22 said:

It won't work like it did with FSX / P3D because of live weather. The sim is never really paused. For example, if you hit the escape button during flight, it'll pause your flight but when you come back, you can see the sun and weather is in different position. 

I guess as long as I'm not completely away from the computer, like out on the road stuck in traffic, I can just set an alarm at the rough ETA for TOD. If I happen to be busy doing other stuff, all I need is maybe one minute to race to the computer, go into developer mode and pause. That'd be more or less like FSX or P3D, just less convenient.

It'd be good to have the best of both worlds, like you can assign a key for active pause so you can watch the giraffes feeding off acacias or whatever you fancy while suspended in mid flight, and assign another key for the pause function that currently exists in the developer mode that pauses everything, which for example PMDG could then utilize.

But anyway I did plenty of flights in FSX using live weather from Active Sky and often used pause. I never bothered with historical weather though, just went along with the changes when resuming a flight.

[MrFuzzy 2,141]

17 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

Most people don’t use 21:9 screens 

But that's not 16:9 either. Unfit for all.

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Black Aspect Ratio bars should never be used to decorate videos.