Only the crazies who smell weird do long hauls in real time. TL DR, Long Haul flying requires you to work it into your real life schedule, and it's a pain in the fanny at times.
#Pmdg fsx missions simulator
A lot of guys don't trust the jet to coast on it's own for 9 hours, and are afraid of oversleeping and missing T/D, a simulator crash in the middle of the night, so on and so forth. I personally do this, but it's risky of course. Many long haul guys often times will depart and head straight to sleep, letting the autopilot and possibly FS2Crew handle everything, and wake up an hour or so before Top of Descent and take back over from there. Many people are simply not willing to put up with working their real world schedules around a virtual world flight. In that case, proceed direct to my 747 comments.) If you fly them in real time, they become a game of time management. warning? For a lack of a better word.įlying long haul jets in FSX isn't something you spontaneously do, "like oh, I'm just going to fly from LA to Tokyo tonight." (Unless you use time compression, which you mentioned.
#Pmdg fsx missions skin
PMDG may be exceptionally good developers and product designers, but there are more ways to skin a cat and I don't want to be closed minded to them.īut first let me offer a word of. It makes you narrow minded and needlessly picky. If you've only ever flown PMDG, it will probably have you tearing your hair out. QW must've done some silly coding to make that a limitation.Īlso, the QW787 Dispatcher uses sliders for fuel and payload, so it's difficult to get exact numbers, but that's nitpicky as all hell and really doesn't matter. I'd never want to use some awkward CDU based load manager for the Majestic Dash 8 though. Most load managers I've used, internal or external, can reload on the fly. The QualityWings 787 Dispatcher requires a sim restart for load changes I get way more information out of a more robust load manager than the PMDG screen gives me. In many respects other load managers are more effective interfaces than the kind PMDG has constrained to a CDU. How is it any different to using an overlay window? Everyone runs in windowed mode so the only factor this could affect is your sense that you're "in the sim". PMDG's jets allow you to configure your fuel and payload right from the aircraft FMC from within the sim. Since you didn't mention it as a potential purchase, I'll only talk about the 747 if you ask me to. If you care to know a bit about the PMDG 747 and why I think it's better than the PMDG 777, ask me and I'll let you know. the PMDG 747 QoTS II beats both the PMDG 777 and 787. I also strongly recommend purchasing the -300ER expansion. and the list carries on.ĭespite being a 787 lover, the PMDG 777 is in my option the superior purchase. The specific aircraft options, the FMC and autopilot, the flight modeling, the fab-u-lous sounds. The PMDG 777, well, what is there to say about this jet that hasn't been said before. Overall though, it is is superb aircraft. But you won't notice these small things unless you're on a nitpicking mission. The engines on the QW787 definitely feel a tad underwhelming when compared to real performance data. The flight model is good, but hand flying the 787 after the 777, 737 and 747 for the longest time was strange. The 787 has some awesome features to it, such as the EFB, the taxi map, superb sounds, however it is lacking in some regards. I've flown the PMDG 777 for nearly a thousand hours (which isn't saying much, long haul jets stack hours on fast), and the QW787 for a hundred or so.
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