iFly 737 MAX Major Update | Complete EFB Rework Review

Hey, very good evening to you ladies and

gents and welcome back to the Q8 pilot

channel. It is 1700 Zulu, 2000 hours of

local time here in Kuwait City, Kuwait.

Today we are going to be taking a look

at the new improvements that iFly has uh

integrated into their study level uh 737

Max 8. Uh in my opinion this is probably

one of the best airliners developed for

Microsoft Flight Sim 2024 and 2020 for

that matter. So today we are going to be

taking a look primarily at the um EFB

which they have revamped. The aircraft

when it was released has received

glowing reviews, but just about everyone

that has done a review of this aircraft

has spoken about the complexity of the

EFB. And of course, it came under heavy

criticism that there uh that the EFB

does not integrate with Simbrief. And

this didn't sit well with a lot of the

uh uh a lot of the uh community uh both

content creators and uh uh you know the

casual simmers. So today we're going to

get a chance to take a look at this uh

aircraft and we're going to be doing so

uh in a flight from uh Mexico to uh the

United States. And specifically, we are

going to be taking this flight today

from um uh Monteray uh Mexico from the

Escobido Escobido International Airport.

Uh Mike Mike Yankee. Uh and we're going

to be heading to George Bush

International Airport in Houston. uh an

airport that I have personally been to

in real life and we are using some

really nice scenery and uh map

enhancement as well to increase the

level of immersion during our flight.

Want to welcome fly bribe. Welcome

aboard. Glad to have you here. And we

have Man uh Manarv

1907. Sorry about that. From India,

welcome aboard. Glad to have you with

us. And we have live from the US of A.

So that the briefing is out of the way,

we can now start uh taking a look at the

aircraft. Now the first thing you'll

notice, what is the snipping tool thing?

No, we don't need that. Thank you very

much. [laughter]

Okay, so the first thing you will notice

in this version is the visual

enhancement. So the aircraft now, the

texturing, it was superb, but it looks

absolutely gorgeous. So, they've really

outdone themselves, the guys over at

iFly, in every respect when it comes to

the visuals. As you can see here, a

beautiful, beautiful uh cockpit that

looks very realistic. Uh, very sharp

textures. This is 8K textures, by the

way. And everything looks, you know,

very, very detailed and pretty sharp,

including the passenger cabin here. We

can take a look. Uh, very nicely done,

very nicely modeled. They really have

done a great job with modeling this

aircraft uh both inside and out. So,

let's take a quick look here at the uh

uh let's take a quick look here at the

uh at the aircraft from the outside. Uh

as you can see here, uh it looks really

really good. The texturing is quite

detailed and I really really like this

aircraft a lot. Uh it is actually one of

my favorite aircraft in Microsoft

Lightsim uh because of the high fidelity

uh of both the textures and the depth of

system simulation. The only complaint

that I personally had about this

aircraft was the EFB and this also this

version brings a lot of improvements in

terms of the performance as well. So,

this really is one of the best airliners

that you can buy today for Microsoft

Flights. I recommend it right off the

bat, guys. Just really an amazing

amazing experience flying the iFly 737.

So, the biggest change has been this

electronic flight back right here. So

let me just come in here and you can see

again the thumbrints here which is

always uh something I really like. Those

little details are really really nice.

So if we click here now you'll have uh a

completely reworked electronic flight

bag with performance navigation.

You know you're can customize your

plane. Uh lots of settings to choose

from and you have failures. You've got

the doors as well. You've got payload

and balance manual and it's got cabin

voices as well. And this is something

that you we will be taking a look at

throughout the course of this flight.

Hopefully the sounds will be um at a

proper volume so that we can hear them.

So the first thing we're going to do is

we are going to come to the weight

payload and balance here. Uh as a matter

of fact, let me go back and go to navig.

And now it's saying it's uh initializing

the authentication. And now as you can

see here we can just import the Simbre

flight plan. So if I click here it will

automatically import the full plan. We

are departing today from Mike Mike

Yankee to uh Kilo India Alpha Hotel. Uh

and you know you just need to put in

your Simbrief uh ID and it will just

work which is pretty cool. Right. So now

that we have the uh navig set up and we

fetched our flight plan, we can go to

the wait and balance and now we can say

read from and now we can read from

either Microsoft flight sim. So from the

sim or from the sim brief operational

flight plan. So we're going to click

here operate and now we can click here

to load the aircraft. We're just going

to choose immediately. And now it's

loaded the aircraft and now we have the

option of sending all the data to the

CDU. We will do that a little later

during our flight. Other things you'll

find here is uh all of the customization

that was really really cryptic in the

previous version is laid out intuitively

here under my plane. This is much much

easier uh in terms of the actual

navigation um of the menus and the uh

actual display of the different options.

Uh so I really like what they've done

here. This is much much better. I mean

just the difference is day and night

between what they used to have in this

aircraft and what they have today. Uh

and of course you have the settings menu

here for some general settings here as

well. Uh you've got the failure system

here which is quite extensive. So you

can set all these failures. You can

clear them. Uh maybe we'll do something

during our flight today. Um and of

course you have the ground services

which now has been revamped completely.

I really like it because now it is

visual. Visual is the way to go. You can

simply connect like we click here and

now you have the ground power unit

connected to the aircraft. So if I go to

the outside and let's see here if I can

go up here and show you. You'll have the

ground power unit connected as you can

see here. Yeah, you have it there. And

you've got the little uh plug coming in

and connecting to the aircraft. This is

a GSX, so we'll not worry about that.

But this is the ground power unit for

the aircraft. So, I really, really like

the changes that they've done here. I

think this was something that they've

been working on for quite some time, and

I think it's definitely definitely worth

the wait. So let's um stop blabbing and

let's start uh getting a very good very

good evening to you Owen. Welcome my

friend. Glad to have you here with us

during this uh live stream. Okay, so

first thing first, we're going to come

here. We're going to turn on the battery

switch on. And we're going to come and

turn the left app fuel pump on as well.

And let's just make sure that everything

we have the equipment, the circuit

breakers are all in. So we're good

there. And the um uh fuel uh fuel

switches are both in cutoff. Landing

gear is down. So all is good. I do have

a tendency to uh click on these by

mistake uh because they've used the

mouse wheel for this. So but not a big

deal. Okay. Uh that's not what we wanted

to do. Okay. So, very quickly here,

we're going to come over to the overhead

panel and let's see what do we want to

do again. Yeah, I when I move the mouse,

it kind of just uh we have the ground

power. So, let's turn that on. And we're

going to come down here. Everything here

is good. Uh circuit breakers. Maybe

we'll bring the lights a little bit.

Brighten up the cockpit uh a little bit.

There we go. That's good. Uh that we can

leave alone. Emergency lights are armed.

Fasten seat belts to auto. And let's see

here. We're going to turn on the window

heat

on. Pitos can stay for later. And we can

turn on the hydraulics.

There we go. And we can test the uh

cockpit voice recorder. Make sure it's

okay. And then we're going to move over

here to the trim is already on. We're

going to leave the uh engine bleeds off

and we're going to turn on the APU bleed

on. Uh let's take a quick note of our uh

altitude. Uh so we're going to come here

just to set this up while we're at it.

Uh so 36,000 ft today for the flight. So

36,000 is now set. Perfect. So all is

good here. And we can now go and set the

position light to steady. And everything

here is good on the overhead panel. Look

at this cockpit. Very very nice. Uh very

nicely done really by iFly. Okay. So we

can now start programming the FMC. But

first let's uh let's bring up GSX

and we're going to request boarding. So

let's say request boarding.

Okay.

Not sure what happened here. There we

go.

Okay, perfect.

There we go.

Looks like the GSX is not exactly where

it should be. So, attach. No.

>> You want a board crew?

>> We're going to say both.

>> Crew bus is coming.

>> Okay. So, the crew bus is coming. And

then we have to it looks like uh I think

it was set to auto but I think the uh

>> All right. So now we can hear the

passenger announcement.

>> And if we go to my plane um taking

>> let's see here general.

Ah you get the music too. I hope this is

not copyrighted music, otherwise you

know we're getting in trouble. But yeah,

so let's go ahead and start setting up

the FMC.

Okay, so we're going to come here. I'm

not sure if uh if the doors will open

automatically.

Uh but we can always go back here

and we're going to go to ground

services. And let's see here.

Uh doors should be somewhere here.

Service door

>> starting.

>> Uh chocks. Grant power.

Yeah. No, the doors aren't here.

Maybe we use the forward stairs. Not

really sure. Ah, it did open the doors

automatically. Very, very cool. started.

>> All right. So, here are the uh cabin

crew here uh boarding the plane. Looks

really nice, I have to say. And we also

have the baggage uh getting loaded into

the aircraft as well. All right,

perfect. So, everything is happening

there. Let's come down here and set up

the um FMC. So, we're going to go to

FMC. Uh one thing we forgot to do is we

need to set the um alignment here. So

very quickly let's come and test the

mock air speed and the cockpit voice

recorder

works fine.

Stall warning test one.

Stall warning test two. Service

interphone is on. And we're going to set

this to nav.

now. There we go. Perfect. That works.

And then we can now start setting up the

>> MCDU is coming.

>> All right. Let's see if we can There.

There we go. All right. So, we're go to

position in it. We are at Mike Mike

Yankee.

And we select that. Go to the next page.

Copy the GPS position. Go to the

previous page. Excellent.

And uh I'm not sure if chat is quiet

today or uh or I'm having an issue on my

side. All right, so we have this set up

here.

Yeah, it looks like chat is quiet.

Okay, so the chat is quiet today. All

right.

Okay, so let's go to the root. Now,

here's the thing. Now you can see that

you have the flight plan request. So if

we click here and just give it a little

uh time it will load up the flight from

your simbrief plan and then we can also

send the there we go. So now you can see

we have the route one uplink is ready

and we're going to click here to load it

and it works just exactly as it should.

We are United Airlines flight 1853

service from Monteray to uh George Bush

International. Uh we're going to say

activate and execute. Next, we're going

to go to the departure. Uh now, for some

reason, the scenery I'm using seems to

be dated because there is no runway 12.

There is only runway uh 11 on this

scenery. So, let's come over here. We're

going to remove that here for a sec. And

let's take the MTYA.

Uh let's see if we get that.

Uh MTYA, that's the one. And runway 12.

But in the actual scenery, we only have

runway 11 for some reason. So, we're

going to execute that.

And we're going to go to back to the

index. We're going to go to the arrival

and the arrival is going to be through

the um Htown Houston Town 3 uh and 08

right

>> may boarding pass.

>> So Htown 3 and it's going to be the uh

yeha transition

and then it's going to be the uh 08

right which is this one here.

>> Good morning. Now we've got uh lots of

transitions there. So let's go to 08

right approach 08 right IS or localizer

>> and if we look here we'll have the there

is the tutorial lassie uh all right so

what do we have here uh we have the

lassie transition which is this one here

which makes sense for the direction of

travel so we're going to execute that

and now if we go to the legs page you'll

see that uh we do have one disco Go.

Oops. Let's erase that. All right. So,

let's select Lassie and put it there.

>> And now we can cycle through. So, let's

step through. Uh, this looks uh okay to

me.

>> Good morning.

>> Uh, let me

>> Hello.

>> Go up here a little bit and uh increase

the range a little bit.

There we go.

>> Welcome on board.

>> Good morning.

So if we go back to the legs page. So

this is going to be our departure.

Uh and let's step through. Step through.

Step through. And this is Yeeha. And

then step through. And there we go.

That's the arrival into uh 08. Right.

There we go. Right there. And it looks

like a straight out uh straight in uh

arrival at uh George Bush International.

Okay, perfect. So all is good here. Uh

so the Lex page are fine and we can now

move on. Let's go to RTE. We're going to

go to Perf in it. And now what you can

do is you can simply go to let me head

back over here and we can go to the

weight and balance since we already have

the aircraft loaded and say send to CDU

and it says send to CDU successfully. So

if you look back here now, you should

have all the information. Uh you have

your gross weight, the zero fuel weight,

and we only have to put in the rest of

the information, which is the uh

reserves, and the reserves is the final

reserves with the alternate. So 3 + 2,

that's about five. So that's five tons.

And then the cruise winds is 1807.

So that's 1807.

And the ISA deviation is 13. That's

positive 13. So we are going to enter

that there. It computes everything.

Transition altitude 18500. We're going

to execute that. Go to the limit. Uh we

already are. We're actually going to

derate the takeoff and the climb. We're

going to go to takeoff. Select flaps

five for the departure. And we're going

to enter the information here. Now for

the CG, we have 5.69 on the trim and

I've set it so that it automatically

sets the wheel trim for us. So now

everything here is set. The pre-flight

is complete and we can go back to the

legs page and we can now start firing up

the uh APU. So let's go ahead and do

that. We're going to cancel master

caution. [music] And we can come here

and turn on the APU. There we go. APU is

now starting. Really, really nice

aircraft. Looks so, so nice.

>> All right, let's go back here to map.

Looks like we do have alignment. Uh,

we're going to put the weather on the

captain's side and terrain on the first

officer side.

>> Yeah, it's a brand new update and it's

just really, really good. really good

one. Really good one. Uh they've really

done an incredible job here with uh

updating this uh aircraft. Service pack

one works really really well. Uh right,

so rejected takeoff here. That is set.

Let's set up the next FMC unit. We are

going to put this on V-NAP.

>> The cabin door is about to be closed.

All right, cabin door is about to close.

>> And it looks like the APU

>> still not available.

So, we'll just give it a little bit more

time. There we go. APU is there.

And the buses are now on the APU. We

have the APU bleed working. And

everything here is ready for us to go.

Let's turn on

>> the damper. Right. So, they're arming

the doors now. Let's take a quick look

here at the outside. And it looks like

all is good here.

We can disconnect the uh GPU.

By the way, this aircraft has really,

really nice sounds.

Okay. So, we're going to come back here

now that we have the APU running and we

can simply come to the ground services

and we can disconnect the GPU. Right.

So, all is good here and we are ready to

go.

>> Please observe the cabin crew member

closest to you as we're about to

demonstrate the safety features.

>> All right. So, they're doing the safety

features. Let's see if the voice

actually the sound actually changes in

the cockpit. No, it does not.

Okay. So you only hear it's in the uh

>> So all is good here. We are ready to go.

We're going to turn on our fuel pumps

>> and we're going to turn on the beacon

light. So anti-colision light is on. And

now we can go to GSX and we're going to

say prepare for push back and departure.

Four overwing wind.

>> Right there we go.

>> Hello, we are ready for push back.

>> You can see the stairs. Very nice

animations there from GSX and things

have really improved uh in GSX as well

since the uh latest update. Works really

Hello Johnny C172. Welcome aboard.

>> Departure checks completed. by

>> Very very cool.

And you get to see the beacon light

properly. That's uh that's a big thing

in MSFS.

All right. Here's the tow truck.

>> All right. Locking gear

>> to inflate the vest. To manually blow

into the tube at your shoulder.

>> Okay. So, let's set things up here real

quick. We are going to set the altitude

to 36,000 ft, which is our final cruise

altitude for the flight today.

>> 36,

>> right? 36. And the speed, let's just

very quickly get our speed and one limit

>> and take off 143. So 153.

>> 153,

>> right? 153. All right. We're going to do

nose to the right. No, we're going to do

nose to the left. There we go.

>> Okay. Parking brake. We need to press

the pedals.

>> There we go.

>> All right. And we have clearance to

start our engines, ladies and gents. So,

let's go to ground.

>> And we can see that the engines are

spooling now.

>> If needed, oxygen masks will drop from a

compartment.

Very nice looking aircraft. Beautiful.

They've really done a very very good job

with this aircraft, I have to say.

>> Looks like we have some pockets of bad

weather.

>> All right, let's set the parking brake.

Parking brake set.

>> All right, and let's go ahead and give

it fuel

>> and let's switch to the outside.

Wow,

those engine sounds are really, really

nice.

Hello there, Timmy. Welcome aboard, my

friend. Glad to have you with us this

evening. [music]

Very very nice uh engine sounds there on

startup. All right, let's go ahead and

start the uh

engine number one. Engine number one is

now spooling.

Right, we'll wait for it to finish

motoring and we're going to turn on the

flight director

on both sides. Perfect.

We're going to set the heading to runway

heading which is 1 12 0

1 120 is set.

All right. And we can give it fuel now.

And let's switch to the outside.

Oh yeah.

[music]

>> Cockpit to ground. We have a good engine

start. You can disconnect.

>> Wow. The engine sounds are just amazing.

Those are Boris quality sounds.

They're the best 737 Max sounds indeed.

Gamer guy, welcome aboard.

All right, there we go.

Wow, look at the animation there. Uh FS

Dream Team has really done a remarkable

job with GSX.

I really wish that they would create

something uh for XPlane uh of this same

fidelity because I think it really is

very very well done. Um,

uh, I don't think that that's going to

happen, but it would be really really

cool to, uh, you know, to get something

like that for, uh, for XPoint.

All right, pins are removed and we'll

just wait for the wave off there and

we'll be good to go.

Excellent.

All right, that's the wave off.

All right, thank you very much for your

service. We are going to turn on the

taxi lights. Engine start switches to

continuous. Gen one, gen two, uh, APU

off, and we're going to turn on the

engine bleeds. APU bleed off, packs to

auto, isolation valve to auto, and we

have now everything ready to go. Let's

turn on the probe heat.

Probe heat is on, and the aircraft is

fully configured uh for departure. Let's

set flaps five.

I know I have one of those views set.

There we go.

Very nice. Very nice animations, very

nice sounds. Um, all in all, this

aircraft is just really uh a very very

authentic uh rendition of the uh uh of

the 737 Max. And I love the details uh

in this aircraft. I still need to figure

out my views properly, but uh it is

really uh a very well-made aircraft for

uh for Microsoft Lightsim. Right,

parking brake released and off we go,

folks.

This is, by the way, the scenery of uh

Monteray here in Mexico. Mm Y is a

freeear scenery. Uh so, and that's why

it's probably very dated. Um the George

Bush International though at Houston is

that of FS Dream Team, which we're going

to be flying into today. And that is a

payware airport and probably one of the

best I've seen uh of uh Houston.

Okay,

>> ladies and gentlemen,

please double check that your seat.

>> All right, you can hear the passenger

>> uh announcements there in the back.

reading light. Press the button above

you with the figure of a light bulb on

it.

>> All right, here's our departure runway.

Now, I know it says here 11, uh, but

it's actually 12 in real life. Uh, but

it looks like that this is a bit dated.

>> Uh, which is okay.

>> All right, let's bring the aircraft to a

All right, so we are ready here. So,

we're going to turn on the lights and

strokes. We're going to turn on the auto

throttle. And we are now ready to go,

folks. All right, let's go. Let's start

our clock here.

And we're also going to uh come down

here and set TCAS.

Uh if I can remember what it is.

Okay, let's uh let's take a look here.

Um

TKS, come on. Where are you?

That's the ADF.

Where? There it is.

Okay, perfect.

All right, we're all good to go.

Wow, look at this aircraft, guys. Look

at the lights.

Yeah,

very, very nice. Look at the strobes.

Look at the wing flex.

This is a must buy for Microsoft

lightsim. In fact, one of the reasons I

fly in Microsoft lightsim is this

aircraft

uh alongside the Phoenix and the flyby

uh uh A380.

Uh those are just amazing uh aircraft.

I actually like this aircraft a lot more

than the uh uh than the PMDG uh aircraft

uh to be completely frank with you guys.

All right, so we are ready to go here.

And this is our toga switch. So let's go

ahead and take it to 40%.

Release and toga.

Check out those sounds.

All right, maintain the center line

here.

Looking good.

Very smooth.

>> V1 and rotate.

Positive rate gears going up.

That is very very cool.

All right.

Right. Flaps up.

Okay. VNAB.

Eln

and command A.

Wow, look at that guys.

That is very very immersive and tell you

MSFS is starting to look really really

good especially with map enhancement.

I totally agree with you because I

purchased uh real ops and I can't get it

to connect to Simbrief. Uh I'm XP lane

person. Arrow Mexico livery is nicer.

Yes, indeed. It is nicer, I have to say.

But, uh, yeah, I think I have it. I

think I've downloaded the Aramxico uh

livery. But, uh, this is still very

nice. Yeah,

the cloud smoothing in Microsoft Lighten

is really, really good. There we go. We

are now flying above the clouds.

The clouds though in Microsoft Light

Sims sometimes look really nice and

sometimes look very very bad. Uh today I

think they look pretty okay, don't they?

Right. So 8,000 or 9,000.

Right. And as soon as we hit 9,000, we

can uh turn off the lights. Right. There

we go. Close enough. Landing lights off.

Runway turn off lights off. Engine start

switches to off position

and everything else here is looking

good. Perfect.

Wow, look at that guys. Look at those

clouds.

Very nice indeed.

All right, we'll adjust the range. Let's

put the vertical profile

uh there

again for situational awareness

comes in very very useful.

I see they updated the EFB. Yes, that's

exactly why I actually made this uh this

live stream is to showcase the EFB which

is now great uh full integration with

Simbrief if you've got failures and it's

just really intuitive and this is

something you know very important guys

uh and I think um I really have a lot of

respect for developers that take

community feedback and then improve

their products. They don't just you know

develop something and leave it to rot.

Uh and you know this is where sometimes

you know you feel that you know you

don't really get uh you know your

investments's worth. Uh there are many

developers. You've got the weather radar

as well. Looks really really nice. Very

very cool. And we've got the terrain

radar here. Let me increase the range

here a little bit uh so we can see the

uh terrain as well. There you go. You

can see the terrain radar works well.

You can see the weather works well. This

is really an incredible add-on, guys. Uh

I highly recommend the iFly 737.

Uh it is really by far one of the best

airliners alongside it. Sits right, you

know, next to the Phoenix uh and the,

you know, inbuilds uh PMDGs of the

world. Uh uh I just think that this is

slightly better than PMDG and in terms

of performance much better than inbuilds

uh which seem to you know develop

aircraft that are you know very resource

hungry I understand because of the

system simulation uh but then you know

we have uh someone here so we do have uh

you know iFly it's developed a very

sophisticated aircraft uh but actually

is not, you know, very resource

intensive. Uh, so it works really,

really well. Yeah.

Okay, there we go. Let's go back here.

And we're approaching the uh transition

altitude 8,500.

Also, this does not cost a cup of coffee

for an upgrade. Yeah, it was actually a

free upgrade. So, um that was really

really uh commendable from uh I play uh

because this is a major rework uh of

their uh of their electronic flight

back. So, all right, here we go.

Standard barrerow set

and cross checked.

Okay, all good here.

And we continue the climb now to 36,000

ft.

Rondoza would never

wait. Why do you like the iFly more than

the PMDG?

Okay, so first of all, uh I think in

terms of the visuals, I think it's a

whole lot better than PMDG to be to be

completely honest. I think they took

their time in developing this aircraft.

Uh and it looks fantastic. Uh so that's

one reason. The second is this aircraft

is very unique to a handfly. So it's not

like PMDG. It's a little bit different

and I feel that this one has it's more

immersive to fly than the PMDG aircraft.

Um uh I like the uh layout of their

electronic flight bag uh again more than

PMDG uh to be honest.

Um,

yeah, I I do like it a lot more. Uh, the

visuals, maybe the immersion, the

overall immersion is much better on the

uh uh on the iFly uh 737.

Uh, in my opinion, I think they've just

put in a lot more effort into making the

aircraft look more realistic and more

authentic.

Agreed. Uh they uh textures on PMTD of

Xbox users. Ah

well see look you have to also

understand the economy uh of of these

businesses. So, I don't know how big is

the iFly team compared to PMDG, but

PMDG, I would suppose that maybe they're

a bigger team and maybe they have bigger

bills to pay. Um, so I mean that plays a

lot by the way into the economy of

software development for flights. This

is a very very niche market guys. And so

when the developers charge for an

upgrade, in my view, at least the way I

see it is if this upgrade is substantial

and it really is not just, you know, an

upgrade of the textures and the name of

the aircraft. Like for example, you

know, some of the developers would, you

know, just put in a few upgrades, their

minor upgrades, and then they call it

instead of, for example, let's say, uh,

Q8 plane, uh, instead of Q8 plane, it

becomes Q8 plane pro, right? And just

for adding that pro, they charge you 15

or 20, you know, 25 or even $30 for that

upgrade.

uh and just say that this is a brand new

version and you know they charge you for

it. Now that in my opinion is a ripoff

and it does not sit well with me at all.

But I tell you, if the guys over at iFly

had imposed a $5 upgrade fee, for

example, for Surface Pack 1, uh, and

called this, you know, a reworked

aircraft and charged five, you know, I

would have swallowed that happily just

to support the developers.

Um so I I really have a lot of respect

for developers in this community guys in

this industry flight sim industry

because it's very niche and so the

developers will have to depend on the

volume of sales right um so for example

uh yeah exactly real life jet fuel won't

pay for itself thank you very much yeah

so I wouldn't really go very hard on

developers that charge for, you know, a

new version uh of the plane for, let me

let me rephrase, I wouldn't go hard on

developers when they charge a fee for an

aircraft for a new version of the sim.

Why? Because

what you see, what you actually see in

this sim, you'd think immediately, well,

you know, the cost isn't justified. It's

just the same plane. It's the same

thing. But in fact, there's a lot that

goes into the background, the actual

code that is written in order to make

the aircraft work with, you know, the

new sim. see the flight simulator

uh franchises whether it's Laminar or

Microsoft Flight Sim those guys don't

really pay too much attention to you

know what makes it hard for the

developer to continue development they

they are worried more about developing

their product and making it the best out

there. Uh now maybe they do work with

the developers but in the end you know

they're going to make changes and those

changes in a lot of cases are breaking

changes and so the developers will very

quickly have to go back to the drawing

board and say oh so now all of these

things that used to work perfectly will

no longer work uh because of the you

know new version of the simulator. This

is something we've seen with XPlane,

we've seen with Microsoft Lightsim, uh

we've seen P with P3D in the past. So

this is a reality guys and those

developers have bills to pay especially

those who are dedicated uh you know to

development. So this is their actual

bread and butter. Um, so yeah, I' I've

seen some some very nasty comments, uh,

you know, you know, directed towards

PMTG. Um, and but I do understand, you

know, where they're coming from. Uh,

maybe not every time. So maybe you know

when they charge uh you know for every

single um version of of the plane for

different sims maybe they need to

consider also that you know we have

invested with them um you know several

times in in many aircraft and so maybe

they can think more of the loyalty

program at PMDG

and that maybe can ease off a little bit

of the

you know,

of the frustration, you know, that a lot

of the flights sim uh community has with

with PMDG.

Uh but in the end, they're a business

guys and they got to pay for, you know,

their bills and and pay salaries to the

to the developers who are, you know,

working uh on developing these add-ons.

Me too. But PMDD don't help themselves.

that I will have to agree with in a lot

of respects. Uh they have uh ask them

versus relationship with loyal

customers. Yeah. Yeah.

So uh we are approaching our top of

climb as you can see here and probably

not a bad idea to add in the uh let's

see here. Not a not a bad idea to add a

fix uh for our arrival which is going to

be uh 08

right. So I believe we can put uh 08

right in here and it works like it

should. And then we're just going to

give it a 10 nautical mile radius just

for situational awareness. And we'll go

back to the LEX page here.

Perfect.

And you can see the vertical profile.

We're almost at top of descent. About

3,000 ft uh to top of descent. Let's

just make sure that yeah, we've set that

correctly. Perfect. Let's switch to the

outside here a little bit. And there you

can see again, beautiful flying over

Mexico. Uh always a pleasure.

And we're using of course map

enhancement which has been working very

very well. I think for Microsoft lights

and by the way, we're flying at maximum

settings. So, everything is pretty much

maxed out. The only thing that I've

turned off is the uh the traffic that

comes with Microsoft Light, the default,

but everything else is pretty much maxed

out. So, this is Microsoft Lightsim

totally and completely maxed out.

Anything on the EFB to fiddle with? Yes,

as a matter of fact, there is. So, let

me come here. All right. So, first of

all, you'll see that you have the

failures. So, in here, uh, you can set

up, you know, all sorts of failures. You

can go, for example, to the ice and rain

engine cal

so closed, uh, autoflight. You can fail

the FCC, auto throttle fail, electrical

power failures, uh fire protection,

engine fire, APU fire, all sorts of uh

things here that you can uh set. You can

clear the failures obviously or you can

select a random failure uh which is

pretty cool, I think, you know, for an

extra challenge. Um also, if you have

the um aircraft manuals, I think this is

how all aircraft should ship. um you

know the the manual should be available

through the EFB and you have all the

information here that you've got like

some 34 pages there. So you can just

simply cycle through here if you want

and read through. Uh, I really like this

because in a lot of uh in a lot of the

before I actually do review videos and

when I'm learning an aircraft, I

normally like open the PDF and then I

keep switching back between the PDF and

the plane. But this really gives you a

very nice uh way of uh you know looking

at the aircraft manuals there. And you

can zoom in, zoom out, use your mouse to

move it uh along. Uh you can save and

load here. So you can set your default

um you can have all your flight plans by

the way here but you can also set the

panel configurations here uh very easily

before engine starts so on so forth. Uh

maybe we can see on grand power uh cold

and dark here. So we can set this to set

this to default. Uh there we go. Uh we

don't want to load it obviously but this

is now the default state and we can just

say save and ah it wants to put us just

leave it for now uh I don't want to mess

up things here then uh one of also the

nice things that you can do is you can

go to the cabin voices and this is

enable says enable autoplay mode. So in

this setting in in this mode what

happens is that all of these uh

announcements will be uh played

automatically depending on you know the

stage of the flight. You can turn this

off so that you can click on them and

listen to them if you like. Um and you

can also increase the volume. So we can

increase the volume there. So we're

going to increase the volume a little

bit so maybe we can hear it a little

better. there. That's the boarding

music. And uh yeah, of course from

Navig, uh also you can uh aside from the

fact that you can import your Simbre

flight plan and set the send the plan

directly to the FMC without reading it

from the FMC. Uh there is also all your

terminal charts here. very very nicely

done uh by iFly the way they integrated

uh the anamograph charts and there is

your operational flight plan and again

very nice you can just simply click here

and jump to the various parts of the

flight plan so very very uh very

well-developed uh electronic flight bag

think it works really well and uh it's a

huge huge improvement over the previous

version uh of the aircraft and service

pack one by the way brings in a lot of

fixes, improvements as well to the

visuals both inside and out. So this is

uh a completely reworked uh plane uh if

you ask me. Uh but probably the most

notable fe feature is the electronic

flightback. By the way, this aircraft

has full CPDLC support as well. So if

you want to try a cars uh you know it

fully supports it works very very well.

I tested it with the uh say intentions

and it seems to work very well.

Uh does it have state load? I think I

don't know. Uh let's see. Um maybe not.

Maybe not. I don't think it has. No,

doesn't seem like it's got a uh, you

know, a situation.

I don't think it's got that feature, but

yeah.

Okay, so we are at 36,000 ft and about

133 nautical miles before top of

descent. So, very short flight today.

Uh, let's do that. Here we can see

that's top of descent right there. You

can see the weather radar working pretty

well.

Yeah, very very nice indeed. Nice

contrails as well.

The Mark Rich. Hello my friend. Welcome

aboard. Glad to have you with us this

evening.

Look at that, guys.

I mean, they really nailed this

aircraft. It looks exactly like the uh

in terms of authenticity.

It is a definite match to the real

aircraft in terms of the dimensions.

It's built to scale without a doubt.

Very cool.

Here we can go to the passenger cabin as

well. Let's explore it a little bit. And

uh again, you can see here that the

visuals are done very very well. Not

sure these are non-interactive.

Um

uh yeah, you've got the door here looks

pretty good

and uh the cabin, the lights as well.

Everything looks really nice. This is a

one class uh 200 passenger uh aircraft.

So very nice uh passenger cabin. Does it

work? Oh, look at that. Pretty cool,

huh?

Huh? That's cool. All right, let's see

if we can uh open the tray. No, the tray

doesn't seem to open, but the overhead

uh compartments do work, which is always

a cool thing. And so, uh yeah, we'll do

a quick tour here of the passenger

cabin. Uh I know that you can play with

the uh windshield there. Let's see here.

Yeah, there you go. You can open and

close that. Look at this. Wow. Very

nice.

And you can see all the details there.

Uh the lights, you know, very nicely

done. The texturing is done very very

nicely uh on the aircraft. Uh overall

just really uh an allound, you know, A+

uh aircraft by iFly. Uh I don't think

that they've developed anything other

than this one. The cargo guy, welcome

aboard. Glad to have you with us, my

friend.

Welcome.

Yeah. So, we've got the Looks like the

uh lavatory works. Aha, it does work.

And you can flush the toilet. Looks like

I can't hear anything, but it works.

Yeah.

Nice sounds as well. Uh very very uh

very nice aircraft overall. Uh does this

work?

Ah you can actually turn on the

emergency exit lights here. Aha. And you

can also play with this. Look at that.

We can change the lights here. So we are

in cruise. So we'll set that to cruise

and zone control. Uh you can set it the

way you want. white brights, white

medium, or you can turn it off. Uh

environment, uh you can set the vacuum

waste. Uh okay, it's empty. Portable

water is full. And we can go Oh, wants

us to put a code. All right. So, that is

doesn't do anything right now. But this

is really cool. You can actually, you

know, change the lights here for

takeoff, landing, and you can turn them

off and manipulate the forward entry

area as well here from the general

lighting uh options there from uh which

normally cabin crew takes care of it. Uh

so yeah, it's a it's a pretty pretty

cool aircraft really and uh one that I

highly highly recommend. Uh very very

nice aircraft, very welldeveloped by uh

iFly. Okay. So, here we are going to be

needing uh the ILS. So, we're going to

come here to

uh this page here, and we're going to

note the ILS for 08 right at Houston. Uh

109er.7

niner 10 niner 7 0 and ah

first let me All right. So 10 niner70

and the mode is island. Oh, come on. 10

niner70.

There we go. And we'll set that as the

active. And let's uh change the mode

here. Supports GLS as well. Uh 10

niner.7.

And we set that as the active. The

approach course is 87.

All right. So, we're going to come here

and set this to 87.

Right. And we'll do the same thing here

on the uh first officer side.

And by the way, you can use your left

and right mouse buttons here to set

this. So press hold and press the mouse

button uh press and hold the mouse

button uh in either. So if you click the

right mouse button and hold it, it will

turn clockwise and if you click on the

left mouse button, it will turn

counterclockwise.

Uh which is again from usability

perspective I think is a very very

intelligent thing to do. uh makes just

working with uh all the uh uh controls

at the aircraft uh just a tad easier. Uh

okay, so all is good. By the way, we do

have the headsup display, but I don't

think that I have it enabled for this

aircraft. Uh so I just downloaded this

in in real life. This United uh aircraft

does not have the electronic the headset

display. So that's why you don't see it

here, but it is available if you want.

What do we Ah, that's just that. Okay.

Right. So, we've been flying for about

29 minutes uh since we started the

clock. Uh again, you have all the flight

information here. United Airlines 1853

transponder 1200, which is by the way

not correct for this flight. Uh so, we

can just put 2,00 that's fine as an IFR

flight. And yeah, all all is good here.

What's vacuum waste? Uh, my guess is as

good as yours.

Will it go uh will it go up if we keep

flushing? I don't know.

Hello Q8. Apologies for joining the

stream late. Oh, no need to apologize,

my friend. Just uh glad to have you

here. I just have a quick question. Does

the GSS integration function in the

iFLime same manner as the Phoenix just

as automatic ground services? Uh I did

not see that the ground services are

automatic. Uh we can check maybe here uh

in the settings. Um, but I know that

once you call for boarding, it will

automatically open the doors, bring

everything, and when you turn on your

beacon light, it will automatically, you

know, dismiss everything. But we can

come here. I don't think this is here.

Maybe it's under my aircraft. So, let's

go to my plane and uh let's see. Maybe

under miscellaneous cabin options. Uh,

accelerate mode, time compression.

Uh, oh, it's good that we have time

compression. It doesn't seem like, um,

you know, it doesn't seem like it's got

the automatic GSX.

Uh, maybe it's here somewhere. No, it's

Let's see. I scroll down here to see.

Uh, no. I don't think it's got that. Uh,

runway awareness. Uh, other systems.

Yeah, these are only just aircraft

systems here.

There we go. Beacon light, slow, fast.

You can even adjust the uh hydraulic

type, which by the way, I'm big hers. It

looks like this is the just fluid type.

Uh but yeah, it doesn't seem like it's

got and by the way, you can change the

display units here. So all this is fully

customizable as you can see, but I don't

think that there is anything for GSX. If

you go here to ground services, as a

matter of fact, it's got its own tow

truck. So you can actually select here u

straight line, distance, degrees, and

then you can say the kind of push that

you want. And it's got all of the

different uh all of these, by the way,

once we're on the ground, uh all of

these elements can be dispatched to the

aircraft. And it's got some really uh

cool maintenance features as well as you

can see here. So, we've got wastewater,

portable water. You can bring all of

these uh you know uh other systems. What

do we have here? So, oxygen, battery,

brake temp, uh extinguishers, IDGs, uh

is closed. Ah, it's got a a a dome. Oh,

maybe we'll try to open it once we are

uh once we are at our destination.

So, yeah, it's uh it's really done very

very well. I really like I really like

what they've done here. All right, if we

look here, we are 51 nautical miles from

top descent. So, we need our platform

altitude for Houston. So, let's take a

quick look here at 08 right.

That's 08 right. We have everything here

set correctly. And the final platform

altitude is 2,000 ft. So, let's go ahead

and set this to 2,000.

And there we go. 2,000 ft to set

and we'll begin shortly. Looks like the

weather is really bad today, isn't it?

Look at that, guys. Look at map

enhancement.

Wow. Looks fantastic.

I mean, this scene right here looks

very, very immersive,

very realistic,

very cool.

I think this is the best MSFS has looked

uh since the launch of 2024

and uh I am using the latest uh Nvidia

driver. Give us a flyby. We're sure.

There you go.

Very very cool. Let's switch to

cinematics here a little bit

and this will cycle through uh the uh

you know the different views.

very very well uh developed aircraft by

iely

and it definitely receives my highest

recommendations and recommendations. If

you fly in Microsoft Flight Sim, this

aircraft will definitely bring a lot of

joy to your flying experience in this

sim. So, highly highly recommend it,

guys. Definitely worth the money.

Definitely worth the money.

Like I said, even if they, you know,

they would charged like, you know, $5

for this service pack, I would have

thought that it would have been, you

know, a justifiable

uh, you know, charge just considering

the amount of work that went into this

electronic mind.

I missed the chase plane animations.

Yeah. Ooh, look at this view, guys. That

is absolutely gorgeous.

All right,

let's take a quick look here at things

in the cockpit and how

Thank you very much, Owen. Coming in

with $499

super chat. Thank you so much. It's

going very well now. Hello, Captain Ray.

Welcome aboard, my friend. Glad to have

you with us this evening. I hope you are

well, my friend.

Uh, I need to figure out why the super

chat is giving those really strange uh

sounds. Um, I have configured so that it

sounds like a ding-dong from the

cockpit. But yeah, thank you very much.

I really appreciate it, Owen. That's

very, very kind of you, sir.

All right, so 23 nautical miles before

top of descent. So, we're almost there

now. And, uh, I wonder what's the

weather like in Houston these days. Is

it hot and humid? If there's anyone uh

anyone in the region there can maybe let

us know.

The weather has been uh getting hotter

and hotter here in Kuwait.

And uh

yeah, it's being in the outside after

10:00

is just unbearable.

And the sun starts going down. It feels

a little bit better, but still very very

hot. It is extremely hot. It's been 40°

see in the UK. Yeah, I heard. No AC.

Yeah. Yeah, I heard because my uh my

folks, my mom and dad uh own a uh an

estate in the Canari Warf area and they

told me they just did not want to leave

the house at all uh because of the uh

because of the heat. So this year

though, it feels as if you know it's

kind of gone longer than usual. So, in

previous years, I know we've had heat

waves in the UK. Um,

I, you know, I travel there, my family

travels there every single summer,

sometimes twice a year, uh, during

Christmas time and during, um, the

summer. I don't go as much as they do.

But, uh, I know that there is like a few

days where you get a, uh, you know, a

heat wave, but then things subside. Um,

but nowadays it's kind of more frequent,

isn't it? I remember when I was young,

35 C is high temp. And the news will

report now it's the average summer is

38. Uh, I'm in Asia, by the way. Oh, I

see. Uh, yeah, it's it's uh the Kuwait

remains to be one of the, if not the

hottest spot on Earth. It is extremely

hot here. Um, but I will have to say

this, although it is hot, the the way

things are set up are set up for that

kind of, you know, weather. So, you

don't really have to suffer from the

heat unless you're walking outside. So,

if you have like if you work uh on on a

side on an external side, then yeah, I

mean, it's going to get to you. But most

of the indoor places in Kuwait are uh

you know have air conditioning and it is

actually so cold when you walk into mall

in Kuwait. The houses have also air

conditioning units and they're are not

split units. They're actually huge

units. It's a central air conditioning

system that we have here in the houses.

So yeah, it's it's not a big deal if

you're inside the house or if you're in

the car or you're at the office or at

the mall. Um you know, it works just

fine, but uh it's designed for Yeah, it

exactly.

All right, so folks, we are at uh the

top of descent mark. The aircraft, as

you can see now, has begun the automatic

descent. has the throttle and

we have begun the initial descent

towards uh Houston uh in the state of

Texas and uh

the this aircraft works exactly as it

should. So VNAV LNAV calculations work

very well. Um so far so good. Everything

is working exactly as we expected to.

And uh

>> ladies and gentlemen, we will be landing

soon. Please fasten your seat belt.

Return your seat back and table

position.

>> We'll just have to wait and see now the

remainder of the flight

>> and where your safety

>> where's this going to take us in terms

of uh you know the top of descent. We

just want to I want to make sure um that

you know it does the proper calculation

which so far it seems that it is. Uh so

far we haven't had any issues with this

aircraft in terms of the uh climb, the

cruise, the descent. Uh so far

everything's been working really really

well. Uh very optimized uh as well in

terms of the you know performance. So it

works really really well here. The

weather radar works fine. You know the

terrain radar works fine. Everything

works exactly as it should. We're going

to set the auto break to two.

here for our arrival today into Houston.

And uh we should be making it uh

shortly. We've been flying for about 39

minutes now uh since takeoff and we

should be making it shortly into our

destination.

How are things with you and your over

three

uh with you over there these days? Uh

when I watch the news, I always wonder

if you and your family are okay. Well,

my friend, we are okay. Thank God. And I

really thank God for that. Um

the situation here uh has been worse.

It's improved slightly. Um but every you

know every time there is an attack uh

you know we lose definitely lose sleep

over it. Uh unfortunately in many of the

occasions there were also human

fatalities

which uh you know which is very sad uh

to see.

I think last week uh I'm not sure which

day it was. I think Wednesday or

Thursday uh I literally jumped out of my

sleep. uh because of the uh uh you know

of the uh missiles intercepting

you know those drones and uh the the

noise you know those ballistic missiles

when they're intercepted the noise is

enormous guys it's just it really is

scary I have to say so uh so yeah we've

had a lot of that uh I am a little bit

more um at ease now because most of my

family is traveling. Um so I'm not as

concerned. It's only me here now. But um

yeah, there all my my uh daughter is

studying uh over in New Zealand. So

she's out there. Uh she's in fact now

crossing the uh crossing the sea just

passing Indonesia right now. Uh I was

checking her flight over flight radar

and my wife and son are in the UK. Uh so

I'm here with my other daughter. So um

but things are okay. So things are okay.

It's not it's not as as bad as it was uh

you know during during the war. It has

subsided now. But uh but yeah, I hope I

hope I really hope that things end up

peacefully and that things do not

escalate.

Um many of you probably know that I am a

man uh of peace and uh I do not I do not

like wars. I do not like warfare. Um I

don't even like it in games. So I don't

like to play war games or things like

that or um so yeah unfortunately this is

something that I or no one here has

control over. So we just uh pray that

you know we are safe that our loved ones

are safe and that everything you know

deescalates and ends peacefully.

I'm over in Canada. My heart goes out to

my Well, thank you very much, Rystar, my

friend. I really appreciate that. Thank

you, Owen. I really appreciate it. Thank

you, LJFP. Thank you very much, guys. I

really really appreciate it. And thank

you for keeping me uh in mind. I really

appreciate that.

One other thing I I noticed uh so you

know when when you go to the supermarket

now is a lot of the you know brand names

that you know were so used to buying are

no longer there. Um

so yeah definitely some things are

you know it's starting to take its toll

I think on on everyone and everything.

though.

Fingers crossed and prayers

and we hope that everything just goes

well. Here is a flyby as we make the

turn here with this beautiful United

livery as uh we fly over US now heading

over to Houston, Texas.

And just look at that ladies and gents.

Just really beautiful, beautiful map

enhancement.

um

much much better than the actual

Microsoft likes uh Bing maps. I think

this looks far more uh realistic

and uh more up to- date. I think map

enhancement is actually one of the

one of the good investments that I've

made as far as, you know, add-ons go.

And I have built both versions for

XPlane and uh uh uh for XPlane and

Microsoft Lightsim. Uh Vice the Ling

asks, "Where are you from?" Q8. Well, Q8

stands for Kuwait, and that's exactly

where I'm from. I'm from Kuwait,

right? 23. So, the Let's grab the

altimeter real quick. So, we're going to

go to the weather. Let's check the

weather.

Uh we have lots of clouds as we arrive.

Uh but the visibility is not bad. 10

nautical miles. Uh 40 at 8 for the wind.

Uh so that's okay. And the altimeter is

300 niner.

Okay. So 30 0. All right. Let's set

things up here.

It says drag required. So let's do that.

Okay. and we're going to go 3 0 and 147.

So, we're going to add that there.

That's the for the wing correction.

Everything here is set. Perfect.

And let's see. All right. So, we can

bring back the

Right. We can bring that back. Perfect.

And we are almost there now, folks.

Some really pockets of bad weather here

throughout the flight.

All right, let's bring the range. All

right, we'll zoom in here a little bit.

I have been map enhancement for uh XP.

Yeah, that's uh

that's very uh uh highly recommended.

Highly highly recommend it, guys. Both

for XPlane and for Microsoft Lightsim. I

mean, here look at this. I mean, the

Bing maps look terrible. Uh and this

looks really, really good. Uh in

anywhere you look, you know, you'll just

find some very nice and very realistic

textures there. As you can see, uh I

noticed that one thing when uh in

Microsoft Flight Sim,

uh the quality of the maps are better. I

really am not sure why, but uh in XPlane

sometimes I get a lot of anomalies uh in

terms of you know you get like a map

here and then you know the map right

next to it like two one region but

you'll have one section

all photoreal but one section doesn't

look like anything like the section

that's right next to it. So I do get

that a lot with explain but not with

Microsoft lights. I don't know why, but

yeah, that's the case,

right? So, all is looking good here. 30

niner. So, we're going to go to 300

niner.

There we go. And we're going to cross

check 30 niner. Perfect. All is good

here.

We're almost almost there. Let's

increase give it some drag here

just to keep our speed down.

I think default MSFS sat image is good

enough, especially regions they feature

in world updates. Um,

yes, I agree with you. Do you use Google

or Apple Maps? In this video, I'm using

the Google maps. So here, let me just

very quickly here. So we're using Google

Maps one and two. Uh they are good

enough in the areas of the world where

they have Yeah, I I agree with you. But

if you want to fly anywhere outside of

that, then uh you know, it's really bad.

So map enhancement definitely uh is a

solution that gives you a lot more

immersion. Uh and then of course I also

remember that I always like to support

the developers. Uh so I purchased both

versions. Uh you could do without the

MSFS version, but just to kind of

encourage the uh developer to continue

uh updates uh on this uh add-on, I

decided to purchase uh the one for MSFS

as well. The clouds are looking really

nice today in Microsoft Lightsim. Yeah,

there. Let's take a quick look here. I

mean, those are really sexy clouds.

And we are almost there. Okay, let me

bring this back.

And we're going to arm the speed brakes.

We're looking good.

So, one of the things I feel that I need

to be doing a little bit more of is

tutorials for MSFS.

Um, I don't think that I've done a

tutorial where Microsoft likes them in a

very very long time. And quite frankly,

um, you know, and and maybe I should

because there are a few things that I've

discovered myself that makes the sim

works, um, a lot smoother. Uh, and, uh,

it really harnesss the power of your PC.

Um, but I just in all honesty guys, um,

I haven't been really feeling

that much motivated when it comes to

Microsoft Lights Sim. Uh, I I really

don't know why. Um, but I just, you

know, every time I, you know, turn on

Microsoft Lightsim to do something, I

say, you know what, no, I I I don't feel

like really flying in Microsoft. then I

go and you know fire up XPlane. Um

so yeah, I think I just really need to

do that though. Uh because I think

there's there are a lot of things that I

can uh probably share with you guys and

a lot of you would probably benefit from

it as well. So

yeah, hopefully we can do that. All

right. Why is it uh

maybe we should have uh introduced the

drag a bit uh earlier, but that's all

right. We're approaching 10,000 ft. We

should be at 250 knots.

So, right, 10,000. Landing lights are

on. Runway turn off lights are on.

And let's see. This is So, let's turn

that on.

All right, it's finally pitching up a

little bit to slow down.

That's our 10 nautical mile. If I turn

this off, this is our 10 nautical mile

radius. So, I think we're doing fine. We

just need to slow down a little bit,

which I think we're doing right now.

Look at this view, guys.

Wow, this is really, really nice.

So, do you guys want us to record the uh

the landing?

Bit of a tailwind. Yeah.

So, if you guys like, we can definitely

do a recording of the landing.

Yes, please. Okay. So, I think we can

come here. Let me just make sure.

Uh, let's see.

FCR. Okay. So, it's there. Fine. Okay.

So we'll do it right just right before

the arrival.

And we continue now to descend.

And we are very close now. Speed brake

extended. Ah okay.

All right. Speed brake is armed and auto

break is set

and everything's looking good. Perfect.

uh remained uh I wonder if it's because

of Q&H remained at 30009 instead of Q&A

29iner niner2. Uh no. So we've passed

the transition altitude and 309 is the

uh barrow. So if you come here, you'll

find 30. Now that's the altimeter uh

right now at uh Houston. So

yeah, if you click standard, then it

turns to 2 niner niner2.

Uh I thought it should do that close to

No, the transition altitude in the

United States is 18,000 ft.

So you need to do it at the transition

altitude.

Right, we're definitely slowing down.

So, the aircraft management of the

altitude and speed so far has been, you

know, pretty spot-on.

All right, let's go to the Lex page

except that we needed to be at 250 knots

below 10. Oo, is that a lightning?

Wow.

Looks like there's a restriction here.

Yeah, that's definitely a lightning

right there.

Is it really raining in Houston right

now?

I mean, I don't know, but that's what it

sounds like.

All right, so we should be out of the

restriction in about 5 nautical miles.

Wow, this is looking

like it's going to be a really involved

approach into Houston. Yeah, the seat

belts signs are already on. Can do a

quick check here if you want. uh no

smoking and fast and seat belt signs are

on. And for the final approach, we're

going to also put the engine mode

selector to continuous. Lights are on.

Runway turnoff lights are on. Speed

brake is armed. And here we are making

our turn towards Houston, Texas and

specifically George Bush International

Airport.

Very very nice.

All right. And let's see here.

We should clear the uh 7,000 ft in a

minute here.

Let's see how it works because there are

a few restrictions. So, let's see how

the aircraft actually manages those

restrictions now.

Wow. Did you guys see that? Got

lightning today.

It's looking really, really good.

All right, let's see here. 7.

We should begin the descent shortly.

There we go. So, that's exactly what we

expect.

And the aircraft is definitely

respecting the restrictions.

All right, there we go. That's the del

mark right there.

All right. And right here, we're going

to go to approach.

We're going to start reducing our speed.

Uh, there we go.

185 180.

All right, let's just

There we go. All right, speed check.

Laps

five.

We've captured the localizer.

Light slope is active.

The final speed is going to be

uh let's take a quick look here. 147.

All

right, the speed is set.

Hello there, K

Krock 24. Welcome aboard. Just in time

for the landing, my friend.

Wow. Looks really a very nice approach

today into George Bush International

with those really beautiful clouds.

Looks absolutely gorgeous. Look at that.

We're looking good, folks.

I still don't see the runway, though.

So, visibility is about 10 nautical

miles. So, uh,

right, we're approaching the 10 nautical

mile ring now, and the airport is just

just right ahead of us.

Hey, Rand is in the house. And we

have also Fly Lelo. How are you doing,

my friend? The aviation gamer. Hello, my

friend.

All right, we're almost there now,

folks. 3,000. We're looking good.

Here's the 10 nautical mile ring. So, we

are exactly 10 nautical miles now from

the O. The lightning seems

>> crew seats for landing.

>> Oh, did you hear that? Says cabin crew

seats for landing. So, again, automated

cabin crew announcements, which is very,

very cool. Very immersive. Uh, so that

is working very, very well right now.

All right, we're looking good. Let's go

ahead and go to the reference speed,

which is 147.

There we go. And we're going to select

gear down

>> 2500.

>> And we're going to go to flaps 15.

Looking good. Let's go ahead and before

I forget, let's click on FCR. We're

going to click record and record. All

right, we'll put that here in the top

corner.

Okay, and laps 30.

I I think I can see the runway now.

Wow, look at that.

Just gorgeous, isn't it?

There's slight crosswind as you can see

here.

Right, we're looking good.

At 1,000 ft, we will disconnect the

autopilot and auto throttle and handfly

the aircraft.

You can see the traffic here. This is

actually a really nice approach into

Jordan. Oh, Rand just coming in

with five Q8 pilot gifted memberships.

Thank you so much, Rand. Really

appreciate that, my friend. Very, very

kind of you, sir.

Guys, make sure that you thank uh Rand

or

um if you've received a gifted

membership from him. Thank you very much

again, Rand. That's very very kind of

you sir. I appreciate it.

All right, we are almost there now.

1,000 ft.

>> All right, there we go.

>> Autopilot off.

>> Auto throttle off. My aircraft. Did you

guys see that?

Approaching 0 8 right.

>> Wow, what a beautiful approach, guys.

Look at the airport.

Wow, this scenery is amazing.

>> 400

300

200

100.

50 40 30

20

5

and reverse.

Ladies and gents, welcome to Houston,

Texas.

Ladies and gentlemen, for your safety,

please remain seated and keep your seat

belt. And

>> there is the cabin announcement again

for your cooperation.

>> Wow, very nice.

>> For your safety, please keep your seat

belt fastened and mobile phone powered

off until the seat belt sign is off.

All right, let's exit the runway and

let's take a quick look at our

uh where is the terminal there? Okay, so

let's go to uh we're going to stop the

recording and we're going to put

>> on taxi way. On taxi way.

>> Okay, let's put this away here. Uh maybe

we'll go a little bit right here. There.

1,00.

>> All right, that's exactly when we

disconnected the autopilot.

>> Wow, look at that, guys.

Is that cool or what?

Wow. Very, very nice indeed.

Here we go.

Wow, that's very cool, guys. All right,

let's just go a little bit more. There

we go. Play that.

That was pretty cool, I have to say.

All right.

Thank you, The Aviation Gamer.

Appreciate it.

Question. Do you recommend the 737

Classic?

Um, Rand, are you referring to the IE EG

737 Classic?

Uh, take control. Okay,

so we're going to turn off the landing

lights. Runway turn off lights are off.

Taxi on. Those can go off. Then we can

that goes off,

right? I think we can go somewhere there

and uh bring the aircraft to a stop. Uh

we need to start the APU though. So

let's start the APU.

Very

beautiful rendition of uh George Bush

International by uh FS Dream Team.

All

right, let's retract the flaps.

Very, very nice rendition of uh George

Bush. really highly recommended by FS

Dream Team. Very nice.

All right, there we go.

Let's line it up properly here.

Not sure why it is not working.

All right, there we go. Parking brake is

set

and the APU is available.

APU bleed on. Engine bleeds off.

Flight attendants, disarm and crossch

checkck cabin doors.

>> It's very cool.

All right. So, everything here is off.

Taxi lights off.

And let's see here.

All right. So the APU is on

and what we can do now is turn off the

beacon light.

So strobe and anti-colision off.

Okay. And now we can go to

back to GSX and request deboarding

>> requested.

>> And we're going to select uh why is it

to Swissport? Okay. Well, that's fine.

There we go.

Very, very cool.

Again,

automatic door opening there. And you

get all the ground elements coming to

the aircraft to begin the deboarding

process.

And uh there you have it, ladies and

gents.

>> Sport expanding. Yeah.

So there you have it, ladies and gents.

The iFly 737 Max service pack 1 update.

This update in my opinion really brings

this aircraft to the next level. I think

the new EFB is a definite gamecher for

the iFly 737 and or Microsoft Flight Sim

2024 for that matter. The aircraft

really performs very well. It is highly

optimized for performance. Uh though I

have to say that the visuals are

absolutely stunning. Even with that I

think this aircraft performs much better

than the inbuilds aircraft or even PMDG

in terms of the FPS. Um, the electronic

flight bag now has all the features that

we as simmers require in order to

operate the aircraft with ease. And it

even has got an a complete custom

failure module that allows you to um

initiate random events uh to really put

your skills to the test. Overall, I was

very, very pleased with this update,

which comes, by the way, absolutely free

of charge. And a big thank you to all of

you guys who've been with me uh during

this live stream. And of course, I want

to thank the developers over at the Fly

team for their hard work bringing

Service Pack One update to the

community. If you are looking for the

recommendation or the seal of approval,

this aircraft receives my highest

recommendations and the Q8 pilot seal of

approval. I probably give this aircraft

an 8.5 out of 10 just to kind of, you

know, push the developers to, you know,

improve it a little bit more. So, I want

to thank you again, guys, for being

here. It's been real. It's been a lot of

fun. I hope that you've enjoyed it as

much as I enjoyed streaming it for you.

Until next time, please take care of

yourselves and each other. I will see

you all very soon. Thanks for tuning in

and bye-bye for now.