As of Tuesday Night, May 26, 2009, the Avsim Forums and the PMDG Customer Support Forum is back online! Welcome back Avsim!

You can visit the PMDG Support Forum here .

PRESS RELEASE: AVSIM Hacked!!

Tom Allensworth, CEO and Publisher of AVSIM, today issued the following announcement; "We regret to inform the flight simulation community that on Tuesday, May 12, AVSIM was hacked and effectively destroyed. The method of the hack makes recovery difficult, if not impossible, to recover from. Both servers, that is the library / email and web site / forum servers were attacked. AVSIM is totally offline at this time and we expect to be so for some time to come. We are not able to predict when we will be back online, if we can come back at all. We will post more news as we are able to in the coming days and weeks.

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I have to tell you, it goes against my grain to solicit or allow donations without providing anything in return for your hard earned dollar/euro/yen or whatever. However, in the situation we are in now, any and all donations can help, if not immediately, then in the longer term. We will use your donations to help pay for any hardware that we need to purchase and any fees that we have to pay for technical assistance (that doesn't get volunteered that is). We will always be in need of future hardware upgrades, software, etc., so if your donation is not put to use in the short term, I can assure you that it will in the longer term.

Tom Allensworth

PMDG has made available a high quality line of MD-11 flight manuals and flight training posters identical to those used by MD-11 pilots!  In partnership with one of the world's premier aircraft manual and training material publishers, PMDG has produced more than 1400 pages of documentation for the PMDG MD-11.  These pages make up three must-have manuals:  MD-11 Flight Crew Operating Manual, MD-11 Systems Manual and FMS Supplement and MD-11 Quick Reference Handbook.  These manuals are bound in high quality format with colored tabs and arrive on your doorstep completely indexed and ready to enhance your PMDG MD-11 flying experience.

For those interested in studying the PMDG MD-11 cockpit in detail, PMDG has produced a line of high quality color cockpit posters suitable for in depth study or framing to hang in your office or sim-pit.

You can see the new PMDG MD-11 flight manuals and posters in greater detail here: 

PMDG has released Service Pack 1.2 for the PMDG 747-400 for FS9, and Service Pack 2.10 for the PMDG 747-400 for FSX.

The service Packs can be downloaded here.

1. Fixed Crash-To-Desktop when exiting from 747-400X Freighter version
2. Significantly improved Save/Load state for saved flights / start situations
3. Fixed case where ILS radio frequency did not reload after load saved state
4. Fixed rare Crash-To-Desktop under certain CDU window resize scenario
5. Fixed erroneous brake temp indication when SimConnect Brake Indication values were erroneously returned for fractional brake pressure settings.
6. Updated Virtual Cockpits to include a clickable TOGA hotspot on the MCP. (mouseover screw)
7. Corrected right main landing gear brake assignment.
8. Improved speedbrake logic to prevent accidental trip of autobrakes if FSX erroneously
9. reads the spoiler handle as DOWN. (Handle DOWN will correctly disconnect autobrakes)
10. Improved engine spool inertial delta to improve autothrottle handling of high energy changes.
11. Corrected flaw in outboard aileron lockout system logic.
12. Improved LNAV propensity to correct XTRK errors.
13. Improved LNAV handling of course tracking in various scenarios.
14. General cleanup of some animations in the VC (window shades, etc)
15. Corrected static knob settings for Air Data, FMC, Flight Director knobs on F/O side of cockpit.
16. Corrected logic for CWT L/R and STAB L/R pump switch PRESS lights.
17. Corrected EGT Limit bar behavior during engine start.
18. Corrected Fuel On index bar behavior during engine start.
19. Corrected incorrect logic preventing VREF election for return to field prior to climb/cruise.
20. PROG page opens to 1/3 correctly .
21. Tightened autopilot roll logic to improve lateral tracking behavior in turbulence.
22. XTRK error correctly populates rather than remaining blank.
23. Corrected 400 Passenger model SPEC mapping texture.
24. Updated EPR modeling on PW/RR engines to reflect more accurate values.
25. PW/RR EPR less than 1.00 ram effect model based on dynamic pressure and throttle position.
26. CLB thrust reduction now correctly senses flap lever position rather than flap angle.
27. Modified EGT behavior during shutdown to incorporate more realistic temps/behaviors.
28. PMDG Options "TCAS Show All Traffic" setting now ignores Above/N/Below switch in order to show all traffic. (Above/N/Below switch still functions correctly if "all traffic" is not selected.)
29. Corrected behavior of GPWS Gear Override Switch.
30. Eliminated silly FSX tire vapor animations in rain/snow
31. Changed the way FMS reads SID/STAR files to ensure soft constraints (A/B) are properly read.
32. Considerable changes to handling of soft constraints in VNAV climb/descent. (Should fix occasional problems with UNABLE NEXT ALT logic and calcualtion of ToD when the first waypoint after ToD is soft.)
33. Improved Direct-To maneuvering algorithm with LNAV engaged.
34. Changed sequencing criteria for flyover-type waypoints to improve flyover performance.

Information published by PC Pilot related to PMDG's half-off promotional program on the 400X went to press after the two-month long promotional program had already expired. PMDG regrets the inconvenience.

Customers who wish to be kept aprised of future promotional programs should elect to receive email from PMDG in their eCommerce account settings.