Quote Originally Posted by Melnato View Post
I just received and installed my X-Plane9.

There are some really good points about it:

Silky smooth
Textures load very quickly
Airport lighting is AMAZINGLY beautiful..unlike MSFS
FOV is much better than MSFS...
Lighting in general is awesome

BUT

Flight dynamics for the 737 are seriously weird...feels like a jet fighter,
and that was supposed to be the upside of XPlane?

Still a lot more testing to do...

Nat

I haven't received my copy yet but the 737 is the one I'm interested in. I have well over 300+ hours in a 737-700 full motion flight simulator and know exactly how the flight model behaves so I think I can give a pretty good assessment. The PMDG 737 was pretty damn close. I can tell you the stock FSX 737 is horrible and in general the yaw axis in both PMDG and the stock 737 is way, way off, especially in engine out behavior.

BTW, the 737 in general is pretty damn responsive (shouldn't be like a fighter though). My brother (who is a C-130 pilot), taught me how to do tactical assault landings in the 737 last time we were in the full motion sim, and the thing handled it no problem.

Off topic, but has anyone heard any rumors about when the PMDG 737-NGX will be out?

Thanks,
Matt