A new b747

[Charl]

http://ifly.flight1.net/forums/forum_posts...ed-for-approach

Made for FSX, P3D... and FS9!
Goodonya lads, each sim has its followers; after this I will not be told you can't split the development 3 ways after you've done all the groundwork.

Now all that's missing is a Pacific Wave repaint, an FS9 NZAA, and we're flying the way we remember!
Crowdfunding, anyone?

[Ian Warren]

Well everyone wants a crack a Boeing, not that I need one PMDG dose me fine, but I guess it would be a lot cheaper so iFly with my little eye something beginning with Boeing.

[deeknow]

Nice one aye. I've never splashed out on the PMDG 744 as I don't fly many long haul routes so am super keen to see how iFly price this one.

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Oct 19 2014,1:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well everyone wants a crack a Boeing, not that I need one PMDG dose me fine, but I guess it would be a lot cheaper so iFly with my little eye something beginning with Boeing.

How many can we have ? but i do agree with Charl " after this I will not be told you can't split the development 3 ways after you've done all the groundwork." FS9 is alive and doing well.

[Ian Warren]

I do also have the PMDG FS9 747, its good someone is working on a cheaper jobbie .

[cowpatz]

I have the old FS9 PMDG 747 (which really got me started in flight simming) and I'm a beta tester for the iFly747.
It really is an awesome aircraft with some great features. The FS9 version will breathe life back into that platform.

[NZ255]

QUOTE (cowpatz @ Oct 20 2014,7:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I have the old FS9 PMDG 747 (which really got me started in flight simming) and I'm a beta tester for the iFly747.
It really is an awesome aircraft with some great features. The FS9 version will breathe life back into that platform.

Good stuff, I'll most likely be looking at it over the PMDG version - depending on how far away each is

[cowpatz]

One of the good things about the iFly team is that they keep improving and updating their products as much as possible and with excellent support. The PMDG product will be excellent as well...it just could be a long time coming.
Do any of the PMDG products support a RF leg type yet? The iFly 737 and 747 do and make for some good RNP approaches.

[NZ255]

QUOTE (cowpatz @ Oct 20 2014,3:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

One of the good things about the iFly team is that they keep improving and updating their products as much as possible and with excellent support. The PMDG product will be excellent as well...it just could be a long time coming.
Do any of the PMDG products support a RF leg type yet? The iFly 737 and 747 do and make for some good RNP approaches.

I don't think the do. Does the iFly 737 have RTA implemented?

[omitchell]

I love the 747 so I'll probably get it just for that reason, but I would have like to have seen them do something that hasn't already been done numerous times before. There is a lot of aircraft out there just waiting for a modeller...

[AlisterC]

I'm so pleased to read a thread with nothing but good words for Ifly. They really deserve it. I am a huge fan of their 737 in both FS9 and FSX. I'm keen to see what they can offer in the 747 dept too. Good luck to them.

[deeknow]

QUOTE (AlisterC @ Oct 20 2014,6:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'm so pleased to read a thread with nothing but good words for Ifly. They really deserve it. I am a huge fan of their 737

You know Alister, I'll be buying this MOSTLY because of your feedback over the last year or so on the iFly 737. I know you how much time you spend in it and that you will have given us an honest appraisal.
Plus with CP on the Beta team this thing is gonna rock !!

[Charl]

QUOTE (cowpatz @ Oct 20 2014,7:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

... and I'm a beta tester for the iFly747.
It really is an awesome aircraft with some great features. The FS9 version will breathe life back into that platform.

Excellent!
I will buy it as a matter of course.
My only fear is that I'm not advanced enough for it...

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (Charl @ Oct 20 2014,8:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Excellent!
I will buy it as a matter of course.
My only fear is that I'm not advanced enough for it...

Dont be silly , of course you are Charl. Just do it man !

[Charl]

See, these days my (somewhat abbreviated) flightsimming involves loading up a nice new plane to see what it looks like, pressing <Ctrl-E> to hear what it sounds like, and then flying a few circuits to see if it handles as I imagine the real thing would.
90% of this would happen in spotview, so as to see the lovely new scenery I have just installed.
Perhaps a screenshot would follow.

I do not have time in my life to do justice to a fully-simulated high workload airliner!

The last and only aircraft I ever worked through comprehensively was the Aeroworx B200.
I am still pretty current on it, but it was enough.

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A typical major airline new-hire has a college degree, an ATPL, 3,000 to 5,000 flight hours (you graduate flight school with about 250), and 1,500 hours of captain time in multiengine, turbine-powered aircraft.[/quote]

This hobby is meant to be fun y'see.
If I wanted to be an airline pilot, I would've signed up 10,000 hours ago.

This does not stop me greatly admiring guys who like Alister fly vast distances in authentic ways, but me? not advanced enough.

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[AlisterC]

To tell the truth I'm only mildly advanced Charl, so don't put yourself down too much. I can only fly Boeings or Beech.
Realistic Airbus, or McD Doug, or ATR, or DeHavilland skills all elude me. So I cheat with freeware versions for them. But as for throwing a plane around the sky for 10 minutes before landing where I took off, no, that sort of thing isn't for me That's certainly authentic flying all the same (yay for flightsim freedom!)

Dean, I've watched plenty of PMDG videos on youtube, and seen a million screenshots, but I've mostly just not yet got around to it. I save some money, and then decide to get something else (most recently Elite Dangerous, but then, that's another topic)
Most off putting with PMDG, is the cost in order to get a full package from 600-900, and because I already have a perfectly good 737 fleet with the ifly. Ifly comes with a BBJ model as well, and for me, given the 700 series BBJ is my favourite jet, ifly win the race for my choice. The ifly is highly functional, extremely well supported, has an excellent model, heaps of features and options to activate or deactivate. I believe the PMDG looks better in VC and model, and would be voted by the majority to be the best 737 EVER released for flightsim, but that's not to say that the ifly isn't a fantastic plane in it's own right. Because it is. In the last four years 25% of my flying has been done in an ifly 737 (a little over 250 flights)

Sorry, back to the 747!

[Ian Warren]

Alister I believe all models have there pro's and con's PMDG is definitely the price that hits the con button, realistically when you think about a 737-200 will be the same as a 737-200 , current one one special from Deans PC-aviator, same with the 747, a lot also depends on your system and how might handle it, I currently don't have the PMDG 747 on the PC, simply have not installed it yet .... again