

That said, there are plans for a number of items for these products, including LNAV, Navdata and Flight Director updates for the 777 and 737, a platforming update for J-41 and DC-6 and some harmonization between P3D DC-6 functionality and MSFS DC-6. Currently, PMDG is not actively developing any updates for the 777, 737, DC-6, J-41 on P3D.

Speaking of Prepar3D, Robert gave an update on product updates on that platform and what future development may look like. The vast majority of users won’t even notice anything, but PMDG is looking forward to the change. Development of this has moved to being initially rolled out on the 737 for MSFS, but will be rolled out across all products for MSFS and P3D in the future. Since 2002, PMDG has used the same format to implement navdata, but with a more modern format from Navigraph, PMDG is adapting to this new way. This functionality also links in nicely with the NAVDATA Source update. There is no clear timeline for when the update will be released on 64-bit platforms.

The developer working on the new LNAV functionality has had to split their time between the platforms but has also been working on changes to the flight director logic. He said that that progress has been slow as of late due to the focus on Microsoft Flight Simulator development. Robert began with an update on how the new LNAV and Flight Director updates are progressing for the PMDG 747 Queen of the Skies II. Those topics include the PMDG 747 Queen of the Skies’ new LNAV updates, the DC-6 for MSFS and the recent Marketplace release, future P3D Development, and also the 737 for Microsoft Flight Simulator. A new forum post was shared on the PMDG forums where Robert discussed many topics at hand.
