When I hover my mouse over this screw – a tooltip shows up explaining which button I need to click to get the result I wish to see. The clickspots – there are a few hidden clickspots that give access to buttons that are hard to reach – for example a screw on the glareshield serves as AP/AT disconnect button and TO/GA button (depending on how you click it). I like the datalink feature of FMC – it is very efficient (I plan my flights in PFPX).īack to the clickspots (I sorry if you find this text a little chaotic – it follows my notes with only minor changes to give you my real first impressions). It is white for the primary selector and gray for the secondary. The cursor changes it’s color if there are two selectors grouped together.

Down – decrease… Just as it should be… but a recently tested aircraft of a different developer shows that is is not always the case – I never knew how to click a button or a switch. Scroll works intuitively – up – increase or right or clockwise. Left mouse button click turns the knob left, right – right (or clockwise). Closed hand – I grabbed something and I can pull it out. Thanks to different cursors – it is very easy in 777. Unlike the real world pilots – I can not operate all the switches and knobs with my hands so it is very important for me that the plane is easy to operate with the mouse. It’s very handy in dealing with selectors that are grouped together. Like the heading selector that has an outer ring for selecting bank angle limit and the SEL pushbutton on top – the shape and the color of hand tells me which one am I pointing at. With different shapes of cursor-hand the aircraft tells what knob or button the mouse is over. PMDG designed mouse cursor that changes color and shape depending on where you point your mouse. I will expand on this in the part focused on the cockpit in a few days. In a few years this may change – plastic parts wear and some amount of dirt may collect in places that are hard to clean.

Scratches and visible damage would not correspond with it’s image.

This is consistent with my idea of the 777 – it’s a modern aircraft and it’s highly automated. PMDG 777 represents a fairly new plane but there are already little signs of use.

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