This work continues and we will turn our beta testers loose very soon to begin showing you the airplane from their own perspectives. With the release of the 800, a number of equipment changes have been made to the flight deck to reflect the systems differences between the smaller siblings and the larger pair of airplanes in the fleet type. This includes the 737-800 passenger variant, the BBJ2, the BDSF and BCF versions of the airplane for a total of 8 models in the package. “Development work on the 737-800 for MSFS continues apace. Moving on to the much more popular 738-800, it appears that it’s still on track for a mid-August release (once again, if everything goes well). If those go well, we anticipate she will be in your hands by this time next week. We are chasing down a few last minute annoyances and we hope to wrap up testing early in the week with one or two more conforming builds. Specifically, bringing in the new LNAV and F/D roll channel model allowed us to unlock some advanced behaviors in the vertical path, with significant improvements to CDA performance and other vertical path computations that really have the 737 behaving like it’s real world counterpart. We are just about ready to release the 737-600 and it will include the new Lateral Flight Path model, along a significantly updated vertical path model that is finally able to leverage the improved accuracy of the lateral model into it’s own computational process. This decision was made knowing that it would cause a slightly longer development period than the originally planned six weeks for the PMDG 737-600, but it has proven to be a good use of development and testing time. “I mentioned last month that we had decided to use the 600 testing period as an iterative test program to bring in our new Lateral Flight Path model. Speaking of the -600, we hear from CEO Robert Randazzo that it could be released next week if everything goes well.įirst up, lets talk about the Babiest of Baby Boeings: The PMDG 737-600!
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