First look at the Universal Flight Tablet for the PMDG 737 fleet in Microsoft Flight Simulator
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ต.ค. 2023
- Today we're taking a quick look at the long awaited Universal Flight Tablet for the PMDG 737 fleet of aircraft. We look through it's functionality, and take the first steps through configuring a 737 for flight - noting the procedural steps you'll need to work through when programming the aircraft from the tablet data, and why the aircraft might not agree with the tablet (check your load sheet, folks!).
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You CAN import the route from the tablet into the FMC - here's how - th-cam.com/video/g1nLkIUv4gk/w-d-xo.html
There's been lots of plane updates in the past few days with the planes! Very exciting.
Great video and tips!
Really nice release. Im sure their will be more features added, but using simbrief and navigraph within the efb is pretty nice to have. Completed a fedex cargo flight from KPHX to KONT this afternoon.
As usual my mentor thanx mill
I like the wording you used, very accurate. “Our magical new toy.” 😂
Superb!
I thought that in the RTE page (13:30) you can press FLT PLAN REQUEST and it'll sync the flight plan between the EFB and the MCDU. Also, Simbrief did allocate some reserve fuel for the flight, in the OFP (5:55) fuel section, TRIP+TAXI fuel is 2100 KG and FINRES+ALTN is 2270 KG, the latter of which can be entered in the RESERVES field on PERF INIT page.
You're right about the FLT PLAN REQUEST - I just had another look at it. It's very clunky, but it DOES work. It of course doesn't pull in the SID or STAR, but it does pull the route in.
Revolutionary.
Sincerely,
Mike Rotch
-PMDG Pilot
can you make like the PMDG 737-800 checklist for cruising and landing? amazing video
The trouble with doing a full checklist for the rest of the flight is it will vary enormously depending on the airfield. The arrival route and approach are always quite different from one another.
It’s a start, hoping they add on a few more features in the future. Don’t use navigraph because I obviously live under a rock🤣🤣.
To be honest, the real crews don't use much more than this.
you can import the flight plan to the fmc also after you imported it to the tablet.
Are you sure? I thought the pull in the tablet is from a file (it certainly looks that way at the moment)
@@jonbeckett just pull flight plan as if you would have downloaded the file. It will work. Same with wx
That lock is to move the map around so it’s not always locked on you
Yep - I say as much during the video :)
The real 737 pilots lol. TH-cam is crawling with them :)
Had an issue tonight that I've never had before, not sure if this is a coincidence with the new EFB. I had all cockpit gauges freeze and even throttle, flaps and so on. Could still fly but the cockpit was frozen mid air?
Never seen that before... not done a full flight with it yet though.
I updated my 737-700, but I haven't gotten the iPad. Is it not for the 700?
Does simbrief cost money to download. Also good vids keep it up
Simbrief is free.
I’ve moaned elsewhere that the lack of fuel import from the OFP is an oversight but I was partly wrong perhaps. I should have known that IRL the pilots have to program the FMC based on what is printed on the OFP. I suppose one could argue that the aircraft will be fuelled IRL based on what the OFP says, so by the time the pilots power the aircraft up, it would be fuelled accordingly and therefore, set against that context, it would have been better for PMDG to set the fuel load from the OFP. But that would mean an actual link to the FMC, which we shouldn’t have.
Then again, apparently PMDG will deliver this fuel load from OFP in the future so not sure what to think here…
I may be wrong about being able to set the aircraft from the tablet - I'll continue looking at it :)
@@jonbeckett Logically, ground services don’t tend to fuel aircraft with folks onboard other than skeleton crew because of static risk etc. Hence my view that the pilots will arrive to a suitably fuelled aircraft. It’s an interesting one.
@@markscars1069 It's a shortcoming of the simulator really. You're absolutely right - the aircraft is well on it's way to being prepared before the crew get on board in the real world. They would of course check what is being done outside during the walk-around, and then verify on-board.
Hi Jon, I have a question if I may: I want to buy a real tablet (actual physical tablet with Android OS) to use it like this: to connect it via usb cable to my computer; to put on it the TSC or GTN 750 of all MSFS aircraft equipped with TSC or GTN 750; to be able to control them via touchscreen - by touching the screen on my tablet - without changing the view in my aircraft. Is this feasible at this moment in time? I am asking this because I found today a good offer on the market for a decent Lenovo tablet. Your advice would be very appreciated. Sorry if I am slightly off topic.
Absolutely. You can get most aircraft with glass screens to pop them out to another view, and drag that to a glass screen. For more involved experiences, like the FMC, or MCDU of a big jet, you'll need something like Aviaworx (there are lots of MCDU/FMC tablet implementations)
Like always, thank you so much Jon, I will buy the tablet then. I cannot wait to do a flight plan by actually touching the tablet. This will increase my immersion experience exponentially!@@jonbeckett
I just got this plane is there a reason why when i load up in a gate spot all the switches and do dads are already running every thing is besides the engine. This is the only plane that has done that before
It's an option in the FMC. Go to the PMDG menu - "Start State", I think it's called?
I'm on xbox s and it won't let me put my simbrief user name into the pmdg 737-900
Is there a weather radar for the map? Thanks
I don't think so.
Can someone help me i cant update my 737-800 in mfsf marketplace i cant udpate the 3.0.80 pmdg op center says in via game update but it doesnt have any update
It may not be in the marketplace yet.
how do you get the tab late for the 737
Switch it on in the FMC - PMDG menu, then AIRCRAFT submenu.
Great show any loss in frame rate when this tablet is activated
Not noticed.
This thing is locking up my controllers. When i deactivate the EFB (press the button on right side of tablet and go to main menu page) my controllers work again.
Not had that happen on mine.
@@jonbeckett Hmmm. Good thing brother. 👍
is this tablet for the 737-600 to?
All of the PMDG aircraft have the tablet as an option - you can enable it via the FMC.
Can I add my own Approach Plates to the UFT?
Not yet. PMDG are planning to release the API to allow others to develop apps for the tablet though - so I imagine somebody is busy making a PDF reader right now :)
I mean its a good start.
But having to go into the CDU and drill through the settings to disable the things is quite frankly a joke.
Can’t see it on here
Is this coming to xbox too?
I have no idea. Why not ask PMDG ?
Where I can find the tablet?
My equipment list ends with window shades and there is no tablet
Why does my plane not have that? I bought it from marketplace.
You have to enable the EFB in the MCDU.
Dear Jonathan, you forgot to choose the specific 738 subtype - meant to be used with the PMDG model... -> th-cam.com/video/Pg3GY3lxodg/w-d-xo.html
Didn't know about that! To be honest, I rarely use Simbrief because I enjoy figuring out my own flight plans, or I'm doing group flights where the plan is provided. I like tinkering with the FMC - figuring out how it works :)
Has this released to Xbox yet?
Probably won’t come out on Xbox as it’s got sim briefing
Not yet, it depends on when PMDG submits the update to MS, it could be weeks before update comes out for the marketplace planes.
@@AnonYmous-nr2wv damnit I always hate it when Xbox gets left out on this stuff
A year to make this huh?
Not your best video Jonathan. For a start Simbrief does calculate reserve fuel by default so putting zero in was just wrong.
You can import the Simbrief plan into the FMC. It is available as soon as you load it on the UFB.
You do not turn on probes until engines are started….
You can get ZFW from the OFP in the tablet.
I have found your videos immensely helpful in the past. This one was not at all helpful due to the inaccuracies from the get-go. Sorry.
That's interesting - I had an operational 737 pilot go through the procedure ages ago, and he said it was fine. I know different operators have different standard operating procedures - and they vary widely. I remember listening to C J Lemoine talking about it when he did a video about working for Boeing in his post USAF/USN career. On about Simbrief - I actually double checked the B738 aircraft profile - the "auto" contingency in generate flight plan calculated it with zero extra fuel - seriously. I was surprised too. Obviously you can *force* it, but yeah... interesting.
In defence of the poorly constructed content this time - trying to fit recording videos inbetween work, errands, chores, and whatever else can sometimes be challenging :)
You've got me doubting everything now :) I went down a bit of a rabbit hole about startup procedures - according to POH instructions...
Before start-up - Set the Probe Heat switches to ON.
After engine start-up - Verify that the Probe Heat switches are still in the ON position.