TIP: The PMDG uses the FlexNet Licensing service to validate activation online, so do not disable it while trying to clean up processes or memory. The Base package includes four aircraft options: the 737-800 and 737-900 models, with and without winglets. You may have to trust the newly installed aircraft when you start your simulator the next time. The installer will ask you for the license key you received with your order and attempt to auto-locate your simulator’s installation folder. The downloaded ZIP archive includes one EXE file and a ReadMe text file. No assembly required, but as there are minimum and recommended PC specs on the PMDG website, please make sure your hardware can support this product. They even offered printed posters, aircraft schematics, Jeppesen charts, and more. However, their agreement with Boeing changed in late 2015 and, they can no longer offer the printed hard copies. NOTE: PDMG used to sell all of the manuals in printed and bound form. I’ve read every one cover to cover and cannot speak enough about the wealth of knowledge and time it must have taken to include such a massive amount of information for a flight simulation add-on aircraft. If the Flight Manuals weren’t brightly marked DO NOT USE FOR FLIGHT, I feel you could see them word for word in a real 737 cockpit. The FCOMs alone are almost 2300 pages combined.

These manuals look as if they came straight from Boeing and are of immaculate detail and depth. Numerous digital PDF manuals are included such as an NGX Introduction, Flight Crew Training Manual (FCTM), Flight Crew Operations Manual (FCOM) Volumes 1 and 2, a Quick Reference Handbook (QRH).

The Base 737-800/900 NGX file is in ZIP format and is approximately 600-700 MB in size. This item was delivered digitally so no shipping was involved. $70 – Purchased online at PMDG website – Oct 2013. The PMDG 737-800/900 NGX is a complex add-on aircraft for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX) and, more recently, Lockheed Martin Prepar3D (P3D).

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