mjl1966

Welp, I guess this is my cue to finally upgrade to X-Plane. I use Aivlasoft on every flight. Import Simbrief flight plan, get taxi directions, keep track of my flight. It is the best addon I've ever purchased. And yea, this is why online licensing is such a scourge. I've lost many things over the years because of licensing servers. Technically a breach of contract, but what are you gonna' do? I hope the maker understands the value of their product to the community. It was a fantastic product.

lol. ikr. I went through all the docs that come with it and was pulling my hair out trying to find what looks like a properly formatted checklist.

Where is this actually documented? I do not see this procedure in any of the docs that come with the Majestic.

Point being, sir, that PMDG has no 747 offering at this time. Since you took the old version off the market (for all the very good technical reasons you stated at the time), we are left holding an empty bag in terms of a PMDG 747 to fly. (I'm not going to reinstall FS9 to fly the one I do have.) It is difficult to not have anything at all than it is to have something old while we wait for the new. There is competition and they do have a product. You do not. I mean no disrespect, but I think you would agree that with no 747 to buy, we are not entirely unreasonable in asking the simple questions, "will you make a new one?" and "when?" You've said you are making a product and then treat us with some impertinence when we press for any details. We are not trying to be difficult, we are simply anxious to have something to actually purchase. You announced it - nobody you forced you to. A lighter touch on your part would be in order under the circumstances. I submit that "We're making something new but quit asking about it" will not rein in the pantheon of customer relations. -MIke Lawrence

Anybody know what Tom did in the Navy? I have a thought in mind for a promo video.

Just wanted to say thanks for sharing this. I had the exact same problem in a totally different airplane and the DX10 fixed it. I never would have guessed.

I ran into this as well, 30 minutes into my first evaluation of the product. This = dead stop on purchase.

Wow, talk about disappointment. I watched lots of videos and downloaded documentation from CLS which clearly depicted fully funcitonal INS. I used the CIVA extensively with RFP and this looked like a way to get back to that mode in FSX. Got all excited and bought the airplane today (FSX HD) and found the INS is not implemented at all, is now a sticker on the center console and has been replaced by two toy CDu's. What the hell happened? (Yeah, I know, "f-lite" happened. Pretty clear what the "f" stands for) So, is there any way to get the "real" version of this add-on or am I just screwed? Would just like to know if I have any hope here or just need to chalk this up to a wasted 30 bucks and move on. Michael J Lawrence

Every time I go to Flightaware and look up JS41 in the flight tracker, zero flights show up. I think I remember seeing one - just one - a while back. People are still flying DC-3s, but not the Jetstream. Any idea why this is? Mike Lawrence

I have done nothing but pull my hair out trying to get this product to come close to delivering what it promises. GREAT idea. POOR implementation. I don't know what magic the people who like this are using, but after reading the manual countless times and working with the program for many hours off and on over the past several months, it simply is not close to reliable enough to be sold retail. When I do get an airplane configured and an airline that likes it and a scheduled flight to actually be available in the CDU when I start the flight, it is a small miracle. This thing has been nothing but a time sink. It LOOKS great in the cockpit. It SOUNDS great in the cockpit. It RARELY WORKS. Frustrating as hell. It does work sometimes. But I never know when or why it's going to. It's like a hot girlfriend with a drinking problem. If there is a way to trip over something during the process, I've found it. I have literally sat with this thing 4 and 5 hours at a time trying to troubleshoot it. Finally realized I don't work for Dutch and uninstalled it and removed every trace of it from my machine so I wouldn't be tempted to "try again". Iv'e "tried again" four times now and I wind up the same way every time, severely frustrated.

Whether or not PMDG is developing for P3D has no effect whatsoever on the licensing of P3D to its end users. P3D is not licensed to be used by the vast majority of those reading this forum. I don't have a second cousin in a scenery company, nor am I legal counsel for anyone. I can, however, read. EULA's are designed to tell end users (that's us) the terms of use in a format that can be understood by people without J.D. in their title. I am also highly confident in my ability to discern the legal definitions of "home entertainment" and "consumer use." PMDG may be developing for P3D. This is good news for them and good news for us in that one of the prime providers of add-ons for our hobby will thrive and continue to make products for us - on FSX and XP. signed - Michael J Lawrence

My posts typically tend to range from the opinionated to the outright contentious, with the rare expression of contentment for good measure. Then there are those once-every-few-years occasions where I feel compelled to sing praise. I have flow a real stick in a 152, 172, Luscombe, Tomohawk and Archer. I learned to fly an airplane before I learned to drive and grew up around general aviation during its brief heyday in the 70's. I am not a PPL, but I have soloed. (Money, like time, is fleeting. ) In the sim world, I have hundreds of hours on the Falcon series, from F1 back in 1989 up through 5.0, which I set aside when I started my FS9 career around 2005 or so. I now have hundreds of hours on FS9 on a variety of aircraft, from 152 to 747 and lots in between. My experience with FSX is much less, but I have a few big brand names in my hangar, including PMDG. Throughout my "career" as a sim pilot, I have found myself on a quest for a good turboprop during most of that time. I have had a couple that came really close to being just right, but were missing that certain something or had minor flaws or imperfections that kept it from being "just right". The ones I remember as being the most enjoyable include the AFG 350 and the Aeroworx B200. Then there's the PMDG B41. After going through the tutorial and spending a few hours learning this fine bird, my first reaction is to wonder why everybody else can't do it this way. This bird sets the bar and is the best sim prop I have flown, hands down. There are a few little things that you can tell were probably difficult to accomplish that put this airplane, and the experience of flying it, into a class of their own. It takes off like a real airplane. You have to crank back on the yoke and it rotates slowly at first, rather than yanking off the runway like everything else in FSX. When landing, it slows down and keeps coming down when you start your flare, like you would expect a 20,000 pound airplane to do. Every single other turbo I've flown floats down the runway like a hockey puck. the J41 flies with a heavy stick and is quite stable, just like a real airplane, without feeling like it's on false rails. In short, this plane acts like a plane and responds to inputs the way a plane is supposed to, something which is oddly elusive in so many others. It also has a power curve that feels genuine. Getting into the teens, you sit back and wait a while as it moseys up to altitude. So many others don't seem to know the difference between SL and FL except for the gauges, whose indications are rendered moot by an airframe that over performs. These are the things that really stand out that I can sort of put into words. There's so much more, of course. And it does have its problems, just like any complex FSX bird, but they are so small compared to the sheer reality of the overall design that they are easily sidestepped. For my part, the only bug I have encountered is the navigation system flying north instead of on track. VOR is a great workaround, so it's livable. At the end of the day, though, the J41 is the turboprop I have been waiting for since my first FS flight in 2005. You can tell this one wasn't about the money. My only disappointment is that there isn't a full line of PMDG props. -MJL

Duplicate post due to "service unavailable" error.

I agree with you on the steam. I grew up on steam guages and could fly an airplane before I could drive a car, so it's very ingrained in me. My question with the fancy glass, especially on a single engine prop, is what happens when the engine goes out and the generator quits working? Pitot tube is still going to give me altitude, airspeed and VSI. Magnetic compass tells me which direction I'm flying. I can get home on that. Black glass with three little steam backups down by my knee? Seriously, is that really a good idea in a 172? Turboprops, not so much of a problem, but I still prefer the stuff that literally works on thin air.