PMDG 777 Released

[MikeH99 163]

2 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

I may pass on this PMDG aircraft I usually do flights that at are most about 1 3/4 hours . Not a typical route for a 777. 

Fair enough a good route would be RJAA to ZSPD tho due to good 3rd party airports and nice scenery (Mt Fuji)/weather to fly around.

  I'm more interested in the MAX myself I'm sure you're the same?

Edited June 17 by MikeH99

[Freq_flyer44 145]

Great news, gonna start reading all Razzo's posts from the last 1 year, should finish by the 25th

(looks at watch)

Crikey, better get started!!

[Wise87 1,358]

According to  Mathjis the 777 will come with a Special Time Compression for those who don’t want to do long flights. 

Edited June 17 by Wise87

[Gazzareth 885]

1 hour ago, micstatic said:

Hopefully the freighter comes quickly 

Definitely, no point me buying the pax version. Freighter all the way.

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[UrgentSiesta 1,046]

2 hours ago, F737MAX said:

Not typical, but plenty of short-haul flights using the 777 exist, mainly in Asia.

Also: https://simpleflying.com/shortest-boeing-777-flights-guide/

A surprising number of 1, 2, and 3 hour flights!

Just goes to show it's really about moving lots of bodies and not always about moving them long haul.

All I really care about for routes is whether the runways are long enough 😃

But there's quite a few good ideas in here I wouldn't have otherwise thought of. Gonna dig in...

[regis9 4,091]

18 minutes ago, Wise87 said:

According to  Mathjis the 777 will come with a Special Time Compression for those who don’t want to do long flights. 

PMDG has long had the best auto time compression system, generally reverting to 1x time compression for turns or other things that could make the aircraft unstable.  Even if they just use the same one in the 737, it can reliably make very long flights quote short. 

This is one thing I wish all other devs would take and implement in their own aircraft (especially looking at you INI Builds!).  I've never had a PMDG flight fail (ie fall out of the sky or otherwise crash) due to using the auto time compression system.

[wan2fly99 38]

Any body read or heard if the CDU can be connected to a tablet (ala FBW A320) which makes entering data into the CDU easy?

[ljk811 30]

3 hours ago, YukonPete said:

I will say US$80

us$77.73

[Bobsk8 13,076]

20 minutes ago, regis9 said:

PMDG has long had the best auto time compression system, generally reverting to 1x time compression for turns or other things that could make the aircraft unstable.  Even if they just use the same one in the 737, it can reliably make very long flights quote short. 

This is one thing I wish all other devs would take and implement in their own aircraft (especially looking at you INI Builds!).  I've never had a PMDG flight fail (ie fall out of the sky or otherwise crash) due to using the auto time compression system.

I fly with A Pilots Lifer, so can't use time compression. 

[JBDB-MD80 1,589]

4 hours ago, Amon1973 said:

Anyone fancy guessing the price?

I'll go for £60.

I think it will be a little more than the 737's so I'm guessing $77.30

[ryanbatc 13,186]

Maybe if there's a BBJ version I'll bite.  I need to fly it as part 91 hahaha 

[JBDB-MD80 1,589]

1 hour ago, Wise87 said:

According to  Mathjis the 777 will come with a Special Time Compression for those who don’t want to do long flights. 

Time compression is a waste of time just do shorter routes. Its flight sim and not the real world after all.

[Tuskin38 7,106]

28 minutes ago, JBDB-MD80 said:

Its flight sim and not the real world after all.

And that's why Time compression is useful.

[Paladin2005 451]

1 hour ago, JBDB-MD80 said:

Time compression is a waste of time just do shorter routes. Its flight sim and not the real world after all.

Thats exactly the benefit of a flightsim, not to waste time with long flights but condense them to the interesting phases with time compression. ☝️

Or do you think, real pilots do 10 hour flights in the airlines training sims? 😄

[JBDB-MD80 1,589]

3 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

And that's why Time compression is useful.

Who wants to sit back and watch a High Fidelity 777 by PMDG fly like the speed of a Concorde. Makes no sense not to me anyways. I'd rather fly flights from KLAX to KLAS or EGLL to EGCC rather than doing a 10hr flight at warp 4 speed. That is a fake of a long haul anyone could imagine.

Edited June 17 by JBDB-MD80