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===Microsoft Flight Simulator, First Releases 2021, 2022===

On the 18th June 2021, PMDG released their first Aircraft for Microsoft Flight Simulator with the Douglas DC-6. Then during February/March 2022 the group announced that the first of their upcoming Boeing 737 Next-Gen Aircraft (Boeing 737-700) had reached BETA Testing and a Streaming/Broadcasting embargo was lifted in April 2022.

Among the chosen 'Streamers' were [https://www.twitch.tv/chewwy94 Chewwy94] & The Flying Fabio, who demonstrated a pre-release version. The New Aircraft was released around 21:05utc on 9 May 2022, on the PMDG Website, which went offline around 2 hours after release, whilst IT teams scrambled to put in place additional server resources to cope with the unprecedentedinefficiency of a server side rendered webpage written in PHP due to higher demand. During early hours UTC of Thursday 10 May 2022 access to the PMDG website was restored and a short time after the Aircraft was once again being offered for Purchase.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://pmdg.com/pmdg-737-700-for-microsoft-flight-simulator/ | title=PMDG 737-700 for Microsoft Flight Simulator }}</ref> The twitch streamers who were able to download the aircraft upon release heaped massive praise upon the product, with one saying they felt it was a "Game Changer for Microsoft Flight Simulator, the PMDG 737 now takes the sim to the Next-Level" {{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=Links to claims needed}}

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