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/images/notams/notams22/pm0730.jpgWe have released the second in our 737NG product series, the PMDG737-600. This product faithfully represents the smallest of the four737NG series airplanes. Measuring in at 102'7" (31,27m) the 737-600picked up where the popular 737-500 operated in the earlier 737Classic series. sharing a common flight deck and systems with thelarger 737-700 provided operators with a clear path to fit the rightsized airplane to its route structure with only minor operationaldifferences between them. Seen by pilots as a "rocket" the airplane'sreputation for improved performance comes from excellent mid and highaltitude climb performance afforded by the de-rated 22,000lb enginesand overall lighter airframe. Complete with an entirely customized sound environment, highlydetailed flight deck, dozens of user-selectable air carrier optionsand a full ground services simulation, the PMDG 737-600 offerstremendous game-play value for users of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Wehave packed this product with our characteristically in-depth systemssimulation developed with input from industry experts and operators soas to include every nuance and detail of the actual airplane. This,along with selectable failures and service-life failures combines withPMDG's highly detailed, customized engine simulation, autoflight andflight management systems to provide the finest airliner simulationexperience possible for MSFS. The PMDG 737-600 is an incredibly feature rich simulation withPMDG's halmark attention to detail- and the best part is that likeit's larger 737-700 sibling, the product is in an active developmentcycle that will see many new features added in the comingweeks. Features such as PMDG's new Universal Flight Tablet will beadded as a free update, giving users the ability to fully integrate tovarious online data sources such as Navigraph and SimBrief, as well asperforming enroute performance computations and displaying navigationcharts and operational flight planning data in real time just as inthe real world. The PMDG 737-600 comes with just the single airframe style everoffered by Boeing- in the form of a passenger variant. The 737-600 isalso made interesting by the fact that it was never certified withwinglets, and thus maintains it's original wingform. The 737-600 isoffered at $34.99 which represents a fantastic entry price for simmerswho may be new to high-fidelity DLC for Microsoft Flight Simulator,new to PMDG, or are currently enjoying GA flying but curious to seewhat feature rich airliner simulations are really like in thebeautiful environment of Microsoft Flight Simulator. PMDG has a longreputation for high quality, ongoing product support and continualfree update development- and we want to position the PMDG 737-600 as awelcoming entry point for customers who are new to the sorts ofproducts we provide. Once you have seen what PMDG can add to yoursimulation experience, we hope to welcome you as a long-time member ofthe PMDG Driver's community. The PMDG 737-600 is available now, at www.pmdg.com! Source PMDG 737-700 for MSFS Update to Build 3.00.0031One of the things you will see us doing now, is updating all of the737 products in parallel in order to ensure that all 737 users areenjoying the same features sets and changes as we continue to buildout this great product line of airliners. The biggest and most notable change is that we have folded in newPMDG Lateral Flight Path simulation, updating the very core of how theflight management system computes, plans and and draws the "magentaline" that ultimately gets followed by the airplane. The new LFPsimulation conforms to ICAO standards for computation of paths and thearcs flown to connect each segment of a flight plan, thus yielding afar more accurate simulation than all previous generations of PMDGproducts. In concert with this change, we have also provided asignificant improvement to the vertical profile simulation, as it isnow able to capitalize on greater accuracy in the mathematicalcomputations from the lateral path model, thus resulting in greateraccuracy and more consistent results along the vertical profile. Thesetwo are heavily intertwined, and this update represents a significantstep forward in the core flight management logic. To make all of this hum and sing, we have also improved the lateralcontrol module of the flight director so that it properly leveragesthe bank angle of the airplane to manage the lateral pathrealistically. You will notice that the airplane smoothly handlestransitions from non-curved to curved paths in the flight route,including entries and exits from holding, missed approaches and thelike- with very little wandering and tightly controlled lateraldeviation. (You do have to manage the airplane properly though!) We have made a number of other changes and improvements around theairplane- one of which I want to call out for attention because it isguaranteed to trip up even long-time users of PMDG products: With this update we have corrected some problems with the brakepedal position module that caused improper behavior whensetting/releasing parking brakes and when disengaging the autobrakeusing brake pressure as is most commonly done in the real world. Thisis going to trip up a lot of users- so here is what you need toknow: To set the parking brake, you must FIRST apply full brake then setthe parking brake latch on the pedestal. The red light willilluminate, and the latch will be locked in place. To release the parking brake, you must apply full brake pressure. In the past, simply clicking the parking brake latch would releasethe parking brakes, but that is not correct behavior and we have nowfixed this. The only way to release the parking brake is to get fullbrake application until the spring latch mechanism releases theparking brake latch and it pops back to it's stowed position. If youuse rudder pedals with toe brakes this will provide a satisfying,proper simulation of the brake release. If you use a keyboard orbutton for your brakes, be sure to hold it for a few seconds as brakepressure ramps up slowly. A simple tap of the button won't work- yougotta hold it until full pressure is applied. On the autobrake release side, to use the brake pedals to releasethe autobrake after it has engaged, simply apply pressure slowly onthe brakes until you exceed the amount of braking being applied by theautobrake. The brake pressure sensors will pick this up and send thetrip-off command to the autobrake control module, thus releasing theautobrake for you.
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/images/notams/notams22/jane0729.jpgIf you're waiting for the PMDG 737-600 release you can now get a preview of what it will look like in action, thanks to a new preview video by "737NG Driver" on Youtube. He's a real 737 pilot and shows the plane in "Janet" livery on a flight from Las Vegas to Area 51. PMDG 737-600 May Be Coming This Week PMDG 737-600 Dev Update
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/images/notams/notams22/pmdg0724.jpgThe team has been hard at work with continued improvements in allareas of the 737 product line, including the 737-700, 737-600 and737-800. This is the first time we have had this many products indevelopment testing all at the same time and it certainly does keepeveryone on their toes as we begin spooling up to move through aseries of releases in very rapid succession during the weeksahead. PMDG 737-600 for Microsoft Flight SimulatorFirst up, lets talk about the Babiest of Baby Boeings: The PMDG 737-600! I mentioned last month that we had decided to use the 600 testingperiod as an iterative test program to bring in our new Lateral FlightPath model. This decision was made knowing that it would cause aslightly longer development period than the originally planned sixweeks for the PMDG 737-600, but it has proven to be a good use ofdevelopment and testing time. We are just about ready to release the737-600 and it will include the new Lateral Flight Path model, along asignificantly updated vertical path model that is finally able toleverage the improved accuracy of the lateral model into its owncomputational process. Specifically, bringing in the new LNAV and F/Droll channel model allowed us to unlock some advanced behaviors in thevertical path, with significant improvements to CDA performance andother vertical path computations that really have the 737 behavinglike its real world counterpart. We are chasing down a few last minute annoyances and we hope towrap up testing early in the week with one or two more conformingbuilds. If those go well, we anticipate she will be in your hands bythis time next week. (NOTE - STANDARD DISCLAIMER APPLIES: If we hitany hiccups we don't like- we will slide the release out as needed butwe'll keep you posted here!). PMDG 737-700 for Microsoft Flight SimulatorThis week we have a pretty nice update for the 737-700. The teamhas been hard at work continuing to add detail, adapt behaviors andimproving the overall depth of simulation for our flagship 737package. This update includes a broad range of items from texture andgraphical improvements to advanced logical improvements such asalternate gear extension. The change list is included here and you canscan through to see the wide range of areas getting attentionthroughout the 737. Concurrent with the 737-600 update (hopefully next week!) we willalso push another update to the 737-700 in order to bring the newLateral and Vertical flight path changes into the 700 series airplaneas well. One note we want to call out: For those who experience the dreaded"gauge flicker" in the 737: Asobo advised us back in mid-May that theyhad found the source of that problem deep within the Nano layer of theMSFS platform. They reported it was fixed and would push in the nextupdate. We have been testing in SU10 and can confirm that it is indeedfixed. This will be a welcome relief and will also allow us to turn onthe EFIS/MAP display configuration. Expect that we will do thisconcurrent with the SU10 release. PMDG 737-800 for Microsoft Flight SimulatorDevelopment work on the 737-800 for MSFS continues apace. Thisincludes the 737-800 passenger variant, the BBJ2, the BDSF and BCFversions of the airplane for a total of 8 models in the package. Withthe release of the 800, a number of equipment changes have been madeto the flight deck to reflect the systems differences between thesmaller siblings and the larger pair of airplanes in the fleettype. This work continues and we will turn our beta testers loose verysoon to begin showing you the airplane from their ownperspectives. The 800 is really the "ultimate" 737 variant from an adoptionstandpoint- being the most popular variant yet built by a wide margin,we are looking forward to putting her into your fleet in/around MidAugust. (STANDARD DISCLAIMER APPLIES: This timeline, like alltimelines is an estimate based upon current progress and remainssubject to change.) One funny anecdote from inside PMDG for you: We have all beenlooking at the 700 and it's much shorter 600 sibling for so long, thatwe made Jason go back and re-measure the 800 a dozen or so timesbecause by optical illusion and familiarity- the 800 (or in this casethe BBJ2!) looks like a 900 by comparison! PMDG Flight TabletI don't have much to update you with here except to say that workcontinues. We are primarily focused on working through the operatingsystem and adding in the various features that make the tabletuseful. As mentioned previously, simBrief integration is in place andNavigraph charts are currently being worked through. I am not braveenough to guess when this will be made live within the airplane, but Iam hoping to begin showing you some previews shortly after the 800 isreleased- as it has some pretty cool features to add to your simmingexperience. Post SU10 Updates (Things such as Weather Radar)Most of the development team is now working in the SU10 betaenvironment as we want to be certain that nothing breaks for you whenthe SU10 update is released. We are also beginning to get caught upenough with 600 and 800 development tasks that we can begin to pick atsome of the new features Asobo published as having been added with theSU10 beta, such as weather radar. We anticipate beginning to look atthe new MSFS weather radar feature before SU10 gets released, but atthis juncture I don't have enough knowledge of what that platform/SDKfeature includes- so I can't comment on schedule for implementationyet. If an actual radar image is provided and we simply need to laythat into a display, it is a simple thing that we can accommodatequickly- but if we have to build out the signal image simulation forthe signal refraction model, then it will take more time. There are a few new features listed in the SU10 beta that we willbegin to pick at once the team has some free bandwidth from theprimary focus of the development cycle. Our development plate israther full with two airplanes in testing, but we shall get to thiswhen things calm down. We are eager to see what was really added! Source
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/images/notams/notams22/pmdg0605.jpgAircraft developer PMDG continues to provide detailed updateson their latest development plans. Their update this weekend provides anextensive report on their plans for the smallest member of the 737 family,the 737-600. This will be their third product for MSFS 2020and the second in the PMDG 737 Next Generation family. More...
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/images/notams/notams19/pmdg1109.jpgPMDG Delays Release Of PMDG 737NGXu Base Package Update and thePMDG 737-600/700 Expansion Package. NOTAM: Today's planned update/release is in holding... Sorry -PMDG Simulations. We were planning to release the PMDG 737NGXu Base Package updateand the PMDG 737-600/700 Expansion Package today, 29JAN20. Unfortunately, my schedule changed and I have been called out tofly a three-day trip, returning late in the day on Friday. During our Thursday afternoon call, we will reschedule the releaseand let you know, but it is likely we will simply hold until a weekfrom Wednesday in order not to put the release on a Saturday whichplaces a coverage requirement on the support team over theweekend. You will notice that we are going to begin pushing more and moreupdates on Tue/Wed as it makes sense to us from a coverage andattention span standpoint and also allows the team to know that theywon't be unexpectedly on call due to any of the accidental things thatcan go wrong with an update/release. Okay, so stay tuned... we'll keep you posted on the schedulechange. Apologies for the late change. It is pretty unusual I get aschedule change this late in the game. Source
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/images/notams/notams19/pmdg1109.jpgOn Wednesday, we are planning to push an update to the PMDG 737NGXuBase Package and simultaneously we anticipate releasing the firstexpansion package for the PMDG 737NGXu product line. This expansionpackage will include the 737-600 and 700 series airplanes as well asdozens of liveries available to you freely via the PMDG OperationsCenter 2.0. With the entry into the new year, we are starting to realize thebenefits of a few years of work that have been going on in thebackground. This work is designed to simplify the processes we use totrack issues, implement fixes and push them to you. Software ascomplex as an airliner simulation is never really *finished* per seand about four years ago we started evaluating ways that we could moveupdates to you more quickly. Now that the machinery and software todrive those processes is completely in place, we are starting to adaptthe business processes in order to add regularity to the release ofupdates. During the course of 2020, you will notice far more frequentupdates and the establishment of some "norms" that keep all of ouractively-in-development products on a continual improvement program,rather than just an occasional update program. It will take just about all of 2020 to normalize the developerbehavior to support this, but I think the outcome is worth doing,especially as we get into releasing products for Microsoft FlightSimulator. Our goal is to target Wednesdays as our scheduled update-pushday. Once PMDG Global Flight Operations is fully operational, weanticipate you seeing some kind of product update weekly, whether itbe for Global Flight Operations or one of our airlinersimulations. Operations Center 2.0 Global RolloutOn Wednesday we are planning to roll out the PMDG Operations Center2.0 globally. Anyone who has purchased the PMDG 737NGXu product linealready has OC2, but for those of you who have not yet purchased NGXuthe rollout of OC2 will come to you via the normal Operations Center1.0 update process. Please note because this is important: In preparation forthis changeover, please open the Operations Center 1.0 and uninstallall of the liveries that you installed from PMDG. (If you downloaded alivery from someplace else and installed it, you can just leaveit... This uninstall order only applies to liveries you downloaddirectly from PMDG via the OC1.0) Explanation: The Operations Center (both 1.0 and 2.0) tracksliveries based upon the livery's "title=" line in the aircraft.cfg. Inpreparation for the release of PMDG Global Flight Operations, we havechanged the naming convention for all PMDG liveries (for reasons thatwill become more obvious when we release Global Flight Operations foryour use!) This means that liveries you have installed via theoriginal Operations Center may have a slight change of name wheninstalled via Operations Center 2.0. If you were to leave all of your PMDG-downloaded liveries in theOC1.0 and upgrade to OC2.0, they will continue to operate normallywithin the sim, but OC2.0 will not correctly indicate which liveriesyou have installed and which you do not have installed since OC2 won'trecognize the "old OC1" names. Confused? Don't worry. Even if you completely mess up, all of itcan be fixed by manually uninstalling and reinstalling liveries onceyou get to OC2. You won't do any permanent damage to yourself. Navdata/Flight-Director/New LNAV UpdateI don't often give you updates on this topic, mostly because theprogress is slower than poop moving through a turtle on a low fiberdiet, but we continue to make progress here. The developer on the teamwho was designated to do the foundational work on this majorcenterpiece of our strategic product update process was our dearfriend Michael who passed away unexpectedly during the summer. Due toworkload on NGXu, it wasn't until later in the year that we were ableto regain traction on this with a couple of other developers fillingin the role. The good news is that we are currently testing internally a versionof NGXu that uses the new database format from Navigraph to replaceall of the existing functionality that we get from the mashup of textfiles that Navigraph have produced for PMDG products since 2002. Thenext step is to expand beyond the existing functions and to startreading in all of the various procedural elements that didn'texist/weren't normally used twenty years ago, such as arc-to legs andthe various elements of RNP procedures and advanced departure/arrivalprocedures. Once we have that step completed, we will use all of thenew data to begin a complete rebuild of the processes that generatethe magenta line/lateral flight path track... and then we are in thehome stretch for a strategic upgrade that I have been pushing us tomake for more than a decade. Work continues. I will not make any estimates as to when you willsee the results, but this will get pushed into all of the fleet typesonce we have it ready. Everything ElseCurrently we are working simultaneously on NGXu updates, anadditional NGXu expansion pack (BBJs) and collecting data on the cargovariants. (If anyone works with them give us a shout... we have somequestions we are having a hard time finding answers for!) We are prepping an update for the 747 product line for Prepar3D v4users and I am hoping to hand that to testers in the weekahead. Additionally we are looking for a testing slot for an update to777 for Prepar3D v4 users, so that shouldn't follow too farbehind. Robert S. Randazzo PMDG Simulations Source
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Hello! I downloaded a Boeing 737-600 model from Project Open sky (this one to be particular: https://www.fs-freeware.net/downloads/download/52-civil-aircraft/1422-boeing-737-600-multi-pack.html) The problem with this aircraft is, when I brake at high speeds the nose gear sinks into the runway. This happened after landing and also during some aborted takeoff tests. I understood that the problem has something to do with the contact points, but I'm not quite sure how to fix it. Here is a screenshot, which shows what really happening every time I engage the brakes: I hope somebody can help me here.
