PMDG’s 737 for Microsoft Flight Simulator stars in new video preview
The Boeing 737 is the most popular commercial airliner in existence. Flight sims have continuously featured this airframe — including Microsoft’s own offerings. But, strangely enough, the 737 was ditched as the lead airliner for the newest iteration of Microsoft Flight Simulator. In actuality, it’s not present in the sim at all as a default aircraft. Instead, that space is occupied by its primary real-world competitor, the Airbus A320neo. Now, nearly two years later, Microsoft Flight Simulator will finally be graced by the presence of Boeing’s star player in the form of its highest quality payware addon to date. PMDG, a staple of the flight sim addon industry, has been hard at work on its rendition of the Boeing 737 family for Microsoft Flight Simulator for quite some time now.
After some development woes towards the end of the project, progress has since made rapid pace. The company recently announced a few weeks ago that it moved the project to the beta phase. Now, PMDG is taking things a step further by showing off the fully functional 737 in-game for the first time in a preview video. The video contains five minutes of gameplay, providing a look at the aircraft’s various animations, some cockpit features (like a nifty HUD unit), and snippets of the jet in various stages of flight.
The preview begins with PMDG’s Founder relishing over how the 737 in Microsoft Flight Simulator has allowed the company to create a project up to a standard that it has been imagining for 40 years. This is quite an interesting tidbit, as some sim enthusiasts have bashed Asobo’s handiwork, calling it too “gameified,” meaning that they don’t consider it to be complex enough.
With that said, the PMDG 737 will serve as the first truly
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