PMDG DC-6: Native MSFS 2024 update coming.

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Paul K

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After all the speculation, it is now official. Note that the update will be free for existing owners.


https://forum.pmdg.com/forum/main-f...ate-released-and-other-news-around-the-hangar

PMDG DC-6 Cloudmaster for MSFS 2024:
The DC-6 for MSFS 2024 is currently in testing as a native built 2024 product. This product was modularized in order to take advantage of the efficiencies of the 2024 platform and is now being put through her paces with the beta testing team. (They were thrilled to finally be allowed to do something other than 737/777 testing!)

Please note that this is update for DC-6 is intended simply to extend the product's serviceability by building her using the native MSFS 2024 tools, and does not reflect any effort to change the product or add new features, as that work is not in our development agenda at this time.

The PMDG DC-6 Cloudmaster for 2024 will be a free update for existing DC-6 customers, and can be purchased natively for 2024 as well if you are looking for a new flying adventures.

(If you are intimidated by all those dials and knobs- take a look at our tutorial series here. Some dude with a ton of flight time in classic airliners (real ones) will walk you through it in a manner that will ensure you have fun, learn something, and succeed!)

And while we're on the topic of DC-6- if you have been getting comfortable flying the 737 and 777 of late, you might want to grab the DC-6 so that you can practice stretching out the thumb and pinkie finger to get all FOUR throttles... Cuz that is gonna be a thing in your life again.



Obviously very welcome news, but I wish PMDG could have given out some information earlier - they can be exasperatingly uncommunicative at times.
 
I'm guessing the reference to practicing future four-throttle use implies their 747 is on the horizon?
 
Killbilly said:
I'm guessing the reference to practicing future four-throttle use implies their 747 is on the horizon?
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That seems to be the consensus, going by the responses. I've just upgraded my 737-700 to the enhanced detail model for FS24, and that might be my last purchase from PMDG for a little while. The DC-6 will absorb most of my flight simming time, along with the default Albatross and the JF Vulcan.
 
I don't want a free upgrade with no improvements. I would rather pay a few dollars and get a DC-6 that received the B737 treatment!!!
It actually flies fine in FS2024 as it was, with just a few tweaks.
Anyway I guess this is welcome news?
 
Just voicing an opinion here. If it is free, you have nothing to complain about. Maybe afterwards, they'll release something super with all the lively extra's. And charge you for it.
 
Reading between the lines, it's evident that the DC-6 hasn't sold nearly as well as the 737/777 (because too many MSFS fliers think programming an FMC and managing autopilots is the fun of simulation), so I'm just really glad they're continuing to support it, and I'm not about to complain.

Plus, a native 2024 release on Marketplace will bring in some new owners, which could hopefully make the installed base big enough to consider improvements later.

Also, the 2020 version is seriously detailed and solid, so it's not like it sorely needs improvements...
 
DennyA said:
Reading between the lines, it's evident that the DC-6 hasn't sold nearly as well as the 737/777 (because too many MSFS fliers think programming an FMC and managing autopilots is the fun of simulation), so I'm just really glad they're continuing to support it, and I'm not about to complain.

Plus, a native 2024 release on Marketplace will bring in some new owners, which could hopefully make the installed base big enough to consider improvements later.

Also, the 2020 version is seriously detailed and solid, so it's not like it sorely needs improvements...
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Flying the DC6 might be fun for you, but maybe not for others. That's not a bad thing it's just different. I don't like the DC6 nor do I like the 737. Although I occasionally fly the 737 BBJ variant. I prefer General Aviation.
 
We love them all, our day job is Captain on the DC-6, then a couple weeks a month we fly the fighters in the Reserves, some cool 50's vintage stuff and then just for fun, we fly GA....!!!!!!

Our Unit might even get call up for duty and then it's off to DCS for some real action.

We are living in some pretty good times right now in the Flight Sim world. The computers we can build, although pricy, they are very powerful and then all the controllers that are available, again some are pricy, but the selection is amazing. The the flight planning and charts from Navigraph, which can be run on a seperate tablet, like a Samsung. Now you have your own EFB, just like the real airline pilots have. Then there's GPS and all the Garmin stuff! Then you have FS2024 with satellite imagery.

Yes indeed we are living in great flight sim times
and I didn't even mention VR..!!!!

Oh, and how can you not like the DC-6, or Connie and other iconic propliners of the past? That is a real head scratcher? Those were amazing airplanes for their time.

What a great way to start your day, in the cockpit of a Connie.

Morning Departure.jpg
 
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The soon to be release FS2024 Redwing Connie will be the most advanced piston engined airliner ever created for MSFS.

The Redwing team are doing a great job upgrading their FS2020 Connie to take advantage of all the new FS2024 features that are available to developers, which is great to see!

Not just making an old FS2020 airplane flyable in FS2024, not to mention any developers here, cough, cough.

Oh wait, it's free, so stop complaining already......LOL
 
Hollister56 said:
The soon to be release FS2024 Redwing Connie will be the most advanced piston engined airliner ever created for MSFS.

The Redwing team are doing a great job upgrading their FS2020 Connie to take advantage of all the new FS2024 features that are available to developers, which is great to see!
Not just making an old FS2020 airplane flyable in FS2024, not to mention any developers here, cough, cough.

Oh wait, it's free, so stop complaining already......LOL
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Makes me wonder if the Connie needs that kind of support....
 
ryanbatc said:
Flying the DC6 might be fun for you, but maybe not for others. That's not a bad thing it's just different. I don't like the DC6 nor do I like the 737. Although I occasionally fly the 737 BBJ variant. I prefer General Aviation.
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Not begrudging anyone what they enjoy. My personal favorites are GA and bush planes, as well as warbirds. Next up is classic airliners/transports like this. (Buffalo Airways kinda stuff.) Just griping that, if you look at sales figures, the biggest sellers are modern tubeliners, probably because those are the only planes most of those folks have flown in. And the most vociferous complainers on the official forums are the tubeliner guys who seem to get more joy from setting up all the flight crap in the FMC than they do from actually flying planes. They take off, push a button, and watch the plane fly itself all the way through the VNAV process. More power to them if that's "fun" to them, but I like to fly planes. If I gotta manage systems, I'd rather do it on a cranky old bird like a DC-6 or Lagaffe's upcoming updated DC-4 than punching stuff into an onscreen keypad.

But that's me. I love that MSFS caters across categories. I just wish the planes I flew were more popular. If iniBuilds had put the care into stuff like their Bf-108/Spartan/P-40 that they put into their Yawnbuses, we'd have some amazing stuff, but they gotta put their energy into what people buy most.

(And I'm glad you like GA.... Love your repaints!)
 
I fly just about anything, but I prefer older big prop aircraft that you have to manage. It gives me more of a feeling of accomplishing something at the end of a flight having to monitor temps, fuel balance, etc. Especially on long hauls.

You made me go look..... :)

My logbook:
Total Hours = 17035.2 hrs.
Older large prop passenger/cargo = 7101.4 hrs.
Glass & analog jet passenger & cargo = 1270.1

The balance of the hours = Warbirds & GA.


Foerst
 
Awesome! Getting this as a free upgrade is a very nice move from PMDG!

I would also happily pay for an upgrade but I see that the DC-6 is a very niche product, so it might not be feasible.
 
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