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Ok when you say everithing works ok i only spend time on a 737-600NG Full Motion Simulator 20-30h ) i can not say what a 737 do in real life... It was 26 Years ago as a Passenger on the JumpSeat with the B733 D-ABWB Condor .... EDDM-LEPA and it was my first Flight .... since this i have a Love 737 Thank you @Litjan best regards

No, it doesn´t help. The startup sequence was modeled according to videos I made of the real 737 starting up and things like starter cutout are modeled according to the real manuals (it does not depend on N1, but on N2). Also note that the exact start sequence depends on many factors like when you move the engine start levers to run, ambient pressure, and temperature, APU start pressure, engine age, etc. No two engine starts really are the same, so even posting a video would not prove anything. I am pretty happy with the way we portray it and I don´t see us changing anything about it. Cheers, Jan

Hi NZWW, thanks for the kind words. Most of the things you mention we are well aware off and agree - they are on our list of improvements to do! Some things are harder to whack - i.e. the GLIDESLOPE warning is realistic - its just that in real life there is no reception of the glideslope as you use the opposite runway to depart on, hence no warning. I do get that nuisance warning in XP as well. That being said, I am not sure which SOP´s require setting navaids for immediate return - all the SOPs I am aware of require to set navaids for the SID, instead. The autobrake works fine for me (and most people) - make sure that your thrust is really idle upon touchdown. The deceleration rate is default X-Plane, but I did some measurements and found the values to be pretty much in the ballpark for the real 737´s autobrake. The "cockpit lit with seatbelts off" is a X-Plane limitation - it is actually the cabin light "bleeding" through the rear cockpit wall. To avoid that, just keep the belts ON. You can see the dome or emergency exit lights in the cockpit illuminate (fixture is bright) when they are lit, so you can confirm it is neither of them. I have to check the climb N1 again, but I was pretty sure it gradually washes out to full N1 during the climb... Cheers, Jan

So I thought I might share some screenshots of a new feature that's being developed for the aircraft: terrain synthetic vision. This was always one of our aspirational goals, but we couldn't get it to show underneath the PFD symbology due to a lack of programming interfaces to the stock X-Plane G1000 to accomplish such a thing. So we've done the next best thing: we've added a tablet to the yoke (which you can hide/show separately) and modeled the synthetic vision system (SVS) modeled loosely on the SVS of ForeFlight: It is still a work in progress, but among the features are of course dynamic terrain display, with automatic mesh detail rescaling for terrain that's far away from the aircraft in order to keep the performance high, background terrain loading from X-Plane DSF files and also neat little things, like dynamic runway number rescaling on approach, so you can more easily identify close parallel runways: Part of the SVS is of course relative terrain height indication by dynamically coloring in any terrain that's close to our height, in this case yellow for terrain that's less than 1000 ft below the aircraft and red for terrain that's less than 100 ft below the aircraft. Terrain more than 1000 ft below the aircraft is colored in using the absolute height scale employed by the Garmin G1000 (basically, the lower to sea level, the greener and the higher the terrain, the browner). In the screenshot below, we're on approach to Aspen, so approximately 7000 ft above sea level. Notice that we have a 200m-scale north-south-east-west grid pattern overlaid on the terrain. This helps terrain shape recognition, make recognizing motion to the terrain easier and also gives the view a sense of scale. When high up, it's useful to know your gliding range in case of an engine out. We have range rings placed at 3, 5, 10, 20, 30 and 40 NM (the dark bands in the screenshots above and below). The range rings dynamically adjust to terrain contouring, helping both in terrain shape recognition as well as knowing how far the aircraft can reliably glide before running out of energy: The SVS includes an auto-declutter display mode, where the compass rose and VS indicator momentarily disappear during extreme bank & pitch angles, to help you recover from abnormal flight attitudes: As I anticipate a question about integrating a web browser, let me preemptively answer that so far we're not looking into this. And that's all for now folks.

Any updates?