This is a remake of the FSX mission: Secret Shuttle for MSFS 2020.
Put the "pilotcs-mission-SecretShuttlePMDG737" into your community folder and the content of the panelstate folder into "AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\packages\pmdg-aircraft-736\work\PanelState".
As a new Captain for a secret airline that doesn't officially exist, you're about to take workers on an early morning flight from Las Vegas McCarran International Airport (KLAS) to an air base at Groom Lake. The mission starts at the ramp at the Before Taxi Procedure.
You need advanced understanding of the B737 FMC and the autopilot.
The waypoints "Mercury NDB" and "Pyramid" are not in the active navdata anymore. So I took these waypoints "JAYSN" and "VEEPA" which match the Locations of those Waypoints.
To end the mission, shutdown the engines and wait for them to spool down.
Flight Number: WWW356
Routing: KLAS/01L JAYSN DCT VEEPA ILS32/KXTA
Cost Index: 10
Cruise Speed: 330knt
Cruise Altitude: 14000ft
The main file is the 737-600 version.
What you need: PMDG 736 or PMDG 737
The Janet 2020 repaint from the Operations Center
PMDG 737-700 Janet Package for the -700 version (PMDG 737-700BW Janet N273RH.ptp)
Optional: Flytampa Las Vegas Mc Carran Intl
Tips: Ignore the heading instructions of your copilot. Just follow the programmed route.
After the UFO bypass reduce the speed to 230kts and when asked to descend to 6000ft, descend to 8000ft and extract the speedbrakes fully. This will make your descend more relaxed.
Limitations: There won`t be any flying UFOs. They are only audible in the ATC comms.
Thanks to BuffyGC for his awesome tool BushTripInjector.
TheGreatHadoken
I hear for the Anniversary Asobo will begin a new line of missions, started up by re-introducing classic missions of past entries in the MSFS lineage.
If this mission is not one of them, I will be surprised. This will do nicely until then, even if I already had the mission available in another form, still great to have it available in the PMDG.
EDIT: Came back to give some stars. I've tried this mission offered by other uploaders for MSFS before. This particular one is the best I've seen, not just because it allows use of a PMDG aircraft, but because it retains the original mission better than any I have seen. It's very similar to the original, uploader tells you themselves that the UFO cannot be included for technical reasons, which I can't and won't criticize for, although I would very much like to see some kind of model worked up (perhaps using the flyable UFO uploaded by someone else on this site many months ago?).
I never give the perfect 5 stars, so don't think this mod did something wrong to be marked down in any way. There was just a little bit of original dialogue that was either missing, or I didn't hear it either by missing the trigger point or by simply not paying attention, and that was the "we realise you didn't have a choice" flight attendant announcement right at the end.
Otherwise this is perfect. About as good as you're gonna get until Asobo inevitably recreates it themselves when they make missions a thing starting from November's anniversary update.
Pilot39 author
Thank´s for the comment! The trigger with the cabin announcement should fire when you vacated runway 32R at groom lake on the middle taxiway of those 3 taxiways. For the UFO´s, I try to implement them in a future update. Of course only static ones because flying ones are sadly not doable.
2 years ago
agleek24
I can't believe it I was thinking about this mission just yesterday, thanks it's working great!
DiscoSweat
Will this work with the 737-700?
Pilot39 author
No, only the -600
2 years ago