With the release of the Service Pack for the iFly 737NG approaching, it is time to provide everyone with a bit more information regarding the Service Pack and it is contents.
When work started on the Service Pack I don’t think anyone realized how much work would be involved and when we started working on new additions it really did expand the possibilities with the different aircraft types.

Service Pack

1. Completely new sound set for the aircraft. With the help of our real world crews we were able to take the realism of the sound set to a new level, with many of the important cockpit sounds recorded on the real flight decks. Each aircraft sound set is different and based on the sounds heard from the flight deck on all the different versions of the 737NG

2. Each aircraft has had its flight dynamics re written. This work was probably the most time consuming as it required the EEC to be re written and as I type this post the fde’s are getting their final tweaks to match the Boeing performance documents.

3. We have a completely new version of the config tool. This tool now allows you to set an airline configured setup, selecting everything your favorite airline has chosen from Boeing as their company fit. This tool also makes it so much easier to add your repaints. There is no longer any need to edit the aircraft config files as the tool does this for you. This tool has so much more potential.

4. We have worked our way through the bug list while fixing issues our real world crews identified as incorrect systems modeling, we have also added a number of user requests for example the radio is now able to be manually tuned.

Feature Pack

Due to the time it has taken to achieve all the fixes here we have not been able to add every request in this Service Pack. Concerned about this the team wanted to repay the support they have been shown by the iFly pilots and have decided to take the aircraft to the next level. In the New Year the iFly Development Team will create a Feature Pack for the aircraft. This feature pack will allow us to develop the use of the new config tool adding HUD,s , Air Stairs, Wing Views, ER Models, SFP Models, and a future tool that allows each pilot to tweak the colors of the PFD to his or her preference. The good news does not stop their we will also be releasing the hardware drivers for free as we promised and adding a few extra user requests to make this the most complete package for FS2004.

The Service Pack is entering the final stages of testing and in the next couple of days I will post an itemised list of everything fixed and I am sure Jiangwei has a few hidden gems. In the past few days the forum test group has had the 2nd last SP build to use and get used to, so when it is released they will be able to point everyone in the right direction when getting used to the new tools and updates.
Steve Masson