First pictures of the PMDG DC-6 for MSFS!

Javis said:
There's simply nothing to talk about a possible MSFS PMDG DC-6 without speculation. That's all we have atm, isn't it..

The DC-6 is a vintage propliner and features the perfect example of what a vintage propliner's cockpit entails. IMHO it is much more interesting to discuss a vintage cockpit in relation to modern instruments than to speculate about the price the DC-6 is going to cost us... What could be a better subject than the DC-6 to know about people's stance towards the vintage/modern instruments 'dilemma' ...

Oh, and Tom started it, not me.. ;)

P.S. and the fact that i went for a Spitfire- instead of a DC-6 cockpit as an example is because i don't want PMDG to get any ideas.. ;-)
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Jan- LOVE IT!
 
Thanks Carl, we need to be vigilant when it comes to our pins and needles, éh ?.. :smile:

Maybe good time to, on popular demand, close the glass cockpit subject but not without one last piccie here :

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The PMDG DC-6 VC shows that integrating a modern instrument in a vintage steam gauge cockpit could actually work very well. I'd be quite happy with this, i hope Tom will be too. :smile:

For people who might've missed it, a quote from Mr.PMDG himself : " If you have hung around the PMDG forum for any length of time, you know by now that I am a sucker for vintage airplanes. Of all of our products, the one nearest and dearest to my heart is the DC-6, as this product represents a hard-working, classic era of aviation where the mere act of intercontinental flying was barely short of a miracle. The sights, sounds, smells of this era of aviation have long since departed the common travel scene, but our DC-6 keeps them alive by giving PMDG customers the finest Douglas propliner simulation available. "

And also : "We have been hard at work on the DC-6 of late we think you will be blown away by the improvements. I promised the team that I would do a bit of flight testing with it this weekend, so here is a quick screen grab from my desktop of the DC-6 of her awaiting an evening test flight.." ( i did not copy the screenie because it's very dark and hard to see what we're looking at)

And one last remark by Mr. Randazzo that makes me quite reassured about the authenticity of the forthcoming PMDG DC-6 VC : "And with that I am off to join my four-engine, fire breathing, smoke belching, oil dripping mistress..."

Nobody will have the nerve to put a glass cockpit into a four-engine, fire breathing, smoke belching, oil dripping mistress..

I guess we'll be sitting pretty, Carl. :cool:
 
It's a good thing those Garmin units are completely optional. How quick some of you are to throw the entire plane out with even the notion of glass. From what I've seen of the aircraft itself, it looks like it might give the FlyingIron a run for its money. That said, I'm always prepared to eat my words...
 
Tom Clayton said:
There's a real-world group restoring the last (?) L-1649 to flying condition by rebuilding it from the ground up. They're also including glass. Count me as a fan, since this is what's realistically needed in order to fly in the modern world. It also fits with my love of anything that looks vintage on the outside but is thoroughly modern inside, like the heretical practice of putting a fuel injected crate engine under the hood of a '65 'Vette. You get the beauty of the old with the reliability of the new!
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Sadly that is no longer the case. The L-1649A was stopped by the corporate bean counters at Lufthansa. The aircraft was taken from Maine to Germany and is now in storage there with a rather certain future. But since the L-1649A was never meant to have it's wing removed there is no FAA approved procedure to do so. That means Lockheed would now have to come up with that....in order to make the airframe airworthy again.

The cockpit rebuild was going to be a rather tasteful mix of old and new to keep the aircrafts historic side alive as well as fly in the 21st century airspace including pressurized flight trans ocean. All of which in hindsight was just too much at once.

I would gladly pay 100$ for a MSFS version of the L-1649A .... not sure a DC6 is worth that much to me.
 
SOME NEWS TO SHARE FROM PMDG-

[22MAY21] It is finally time for a bit Show-and-Tell related to Microsoft Flight Simulator



Captains,

We have been rather quiet about our pending product releases as they related to Microsoft Flight Simulator, but the time for silence has now drawn to a close. After a long period of keeping our MSFS experience to ourselves, we are finally ready to show you what the road ahead is going to look like for our product lines in this exciting new platform.

Let me start by saying that we do not view Microsoft Flight Simulator as a "port-over" process. About fourteen months ago we determined that a full, new development process would be called for in order for us to take full advantage of everything that the new sim platform has to offer. It has been a painstaking process to throw out more than two decades of experience and workflow in order to build new products for Microsoft Flight Simulator, but now that we have a few products working in MSFS I am certain that taking the longer pathway was the best decision we could have made.

Our plan is to bring our entire 737, 747, 777 and DC-6 lines into MSFS. This task is currently our highest priority workflow and we have moved resources from around the company to accomplish this task. Originally we felt that 737 would be our first product to hit the release cycle, but this proven not to be the case. There were a significant number of technical hurdles that needed to be cleared before we could push any of our glass flight deck airliners into MSFS. While this has been a painful process we believe that we are clear of the worst hurdles and what remains now is mostly just the work of development required to finish our products properly.

We are fortunate to have a very talented team that works in parallel on multiple projects at one time and it became evident a few months ago that our DC-6 had reached a point where it was ready for testing well ahead of the 737 that was supposed to beat it to release. With that realization we pushed the DC-6 to our testing team a few months ago and they have been putting hours and cycles on the simulation to great effect.

There has been a fair amount of skepticism within our customer base as to whether Microsoft Flight Simulator is-or-will-be a valid platform for the sorts of products PMDG makes. We have remained silent on the topic in part because we don't generally talk much about products early in the development cycle. We also don't like to talk too much about our development agenda prior to a development project reaching some maturity because it is important as a small developer for us to maintain as much flexibility as possible to shift resources around as they are needed to keep projects from bogging down. But this of course has caused some conjecture on what our opinion of the platform might be, so we thought it might be a good time to lay bare what we are up to with Microsoft Flight Simulator.

We are "all in" with this new platform. We have reached the point where we are certain that we can get all of our product lines effectively into the simulator, and that process has begun in earnest. Currently we are working on the DC-6 and the 737 product lines, and Vin is building out the new flight deck for the 777. We fully expect to have the DC-6 and 737's released this year, with a remote possibility of the 777 releasing as well by year end, and the 747 during first half of 2022.

For years, many of us in the development community have lamented the fact that we are developing cutting edge simulations of incredibly sophisticated airplanes, only to have them look like 1990s animations when they appear on the screen. That is no longer a reality for products that appear in Microsoft Flight Simulator. For better or worse, we finally have a simulation platform with a dynamic, living world, an incredible lighting model, magnificent atmospherics and a broad range of capabilities that will allow us to simulate our favorite airlines to a degree never before possible.

To show you what we mean, we have decided to celebrate the impending release of our first MSFS product by opening a new, official PMDG You Tube Channel.

Yes... PMDG is now officially lowering property values on YouTube. :rolleyes:

We invite you to visit our new channel here.

As of this moment, we have uploaded the first half of the Basic Tutorial Series for the PMDG Douglas DC-6. While many of you have flown the DC-6 in XPL or P3D, I hope these short videos will show you just how more advanced the simulation is within the MSFS environment. With a modern rendering engine and a modern lighting engine, our simulation of this truly fantastic airplane is about as close as you can get to being there. We have never put much time into video promotion of our products, but that all changes now. I hope that this new tutorial series gives you a chance to see just how detailed and beautiful our products will be in the new Microsoft Flight Simulator. There really is no comparison at this point, but don't just take my word for it: Go look for yourself!

I still have another half dozen pending for the basic tutorial series, and then I'm going run an advanced series of tutorials for those who really want to learn the in-depth aspects of operating a radial engine airliner with precision. This is a subject about which I am passionate, and after flying the DC-3 for a dozen years I hope that these tutorials will really help you to see the realism and authenticity of what we have created with this product.

Soon enough, I hope to upload a preview of the new LNAV model in operation within the 747, as well as some preview vidoes of the 737 in MSFS... I'll shift focus to those once we have the DC-6 out the door over the next couple of weeks.

In the mean time- if there are specific topic areas that are of interest to you in the DC-6 tutorials, please shout out and let me know. Since I am deep into the production process for these I can easily work some requested topics into the flow of things as I progress.

Oh- and no making fun of my artwork... I'm a pilot, not an artist. :rolleyes:






Robert S. Randazzo
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That is looking sooo good. Probably not going to be really cheap, but I won't be able to resist on this one. And I didn't expect this thing to come out this year at all, now it's not going to be very long after all.
 
Excellent news! I‘m really looking forward to buy the PMDG DC-6 for the third time :biggrin-new:

But I can only hope that there is an option to hide the tablet…

Greetings
Tim
 
OK. I have just died and gone to heaven. Thank you Carl for letting me know !
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Horsing around with the Spitfire was great but it looks like the MSFS show finally gets on the road for good. No more fooling around it's getting all pretty serious now. I think i'm going to have to watch those tuts multiple times before it will really sink in what exactly i am seeing and hearing here unfolding before my unbelieving eyes and ears. Am i dead ? No, not really i guess. Am i dreaming? That looks more like it, yes. Atm i am not sure, really....

Just in case this all is really true i am not going to need anything more, that's for sure !

Thanks a million Captain Randazzo, Sir, with this extraordinairy revelation you have made my day, week, month, year and hopefully many years to come.

To all vintage propliner lovers around the world i'd like to vent my opinion about the forthcoming PMDG DC-6 MSFS edition *just* by watching the tuts : it is simply I N C R E D I B L E !! O N G E L O O F L IJ K !! U N G L A U B I C H !! I N C R E Í B L E !! I N C R O Y A B L E !! I N C R E D I B I L E !! U T R O L I G !! O T R O L I G !! U S K O M A T O N !! N E V E R O Y A T N Y Y !! H I H E T E T L E N !! N E T I C A M I !! P R O B L E M O O F L I J K !! N E V E R O J A T N O !! A P I S T E F T O S !! B Ê B A W E R !! I N A N I L M A Z !! L A Y U S A D I Q !! J I H Ã O D E !! S H I N J I R A R E N A I H O D O !!

Enough said ? Don't think so no, but atm i am too flabbergasted to find any more words.

Thanks very much again Carl for this incredible HU, i really wasn't aware this kind of totally amazing ongoings were really going on so soon already. THANKS, MATE !!
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Cheers,
Jan
 
Something to whet the appetite Jan-

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I'm not an airliner fan so much when it comes to flight sim, I like the GA stuff and a warbird or two, and helicopters for the most part.
But I flew across country twice on United DC-6's before I was 7 years old - I had managed to keep the pair of bright metal, painted and polished wings safe for many years as a reminder of those experiences. Sadly those are gone - probably worth a stupid amount of money now too..lol
Two images I have no problem recollecting. The Dc-6 in United livery waiting on the ramp for us to board at LAX in the glinty November morning - and rushing over the purest white lumps and expanses of cumulus clouds with that cold blue sky all around as it climbed out and headed east..

I will buy this DC-6 day one for a lot of reasons - to support a good developer, to reward hard working folks who take pride in their work, and to experience an important piece of the history of passenger aviation to the degree a simulator will allow...among others
 
cavaricooper said:
Something to whet the appetite Jan-
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Thanks, Carl, exiting pics ! :applause: (you did not shoot those, did you ??... ;-)

What struck me like lightning out of a blue sky was the appearance of the VC while watching the tuts. My Gawd! Regarding airliner VC's, did i ever see something so beautiful and appealing in FSX or P3D ??! Hmmmmm..... NO!! (Ok, PMDG and CS jetliner VC's certainly are beautiful and appealing too but this is MSFS and it's a PROPLINER! Best of both virtual flying worlds come together! :biggrin-new: ) You DID see almost all engine gauge needles as well as the panels extremely realisticly vibrating, did you ? :applause:

Not sure if i get in trouble but here's a shot of the VC i grabbed off the vid. Everybody here needs to see this :

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That's going to be my office for a looooooong time to come ! Hallelujah!!! :jump:
 
Tim-HH said; Quote: But I can only hope that there is an option to hide the tablet… Unquote


Hey Tim! Phew! That was a close one, neh.. ;-)

First look at one of the most exiting MSFS add-ons we could only dream of sofar (Ok, that is to say 'we' propliner lovers..), starts off with the explanation of a digital thingamabob !
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Oh, well.... no doubt it will work extremely well. We'll just have to figure that we'll be flying the DC-6 in the 21st Century, not in the 20th where she was born. I can sorta live with that.
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Exiting times ahead of us, mate !
 
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