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What is the most immersive Airplane in FSX

I guess I am easily immersed. It's the aircraft I am flying at the moment (and that starts with the default Cessna 172)
If for some reason, I don't get immersed, I never fly that aircraft again.
 
I like this thread, and the immersive idea,
but not all my favorite aircraft are immersive.

agreed Weather/scenery/sounds are important

Below list is what I consider immersive

Bush Flying -
A2As Piper
sibwing 305 Birddog
Lionhearts Kodiak
Carenado C185
Aersoft Bushhawk
Carenado 206

GA Singles
Carenado Mooney
sibwings Saab Safir 91

GA Twin
Realair Duke

Turbo Props
PMDG JS-41
Digital Aviation Piper Cheyenne
Flight ones Pilatus PC-12

Private Jets
Flight ones Mustang Jet

Tubliners
A2A Boeing 377
CS 727
Wilcos E-jet

Modern Military
Aerosoft F-16
CS C-130
CS F-18
Skysim Dessault Mirage III
LotuSim L-39
Alphasim T-34C

WWII
A2A P-47
Realair Spitfire
Classic Hangers FW190 Series
Aerosoft Consolidated PBY

Misc.
Aerosoft Huges H1B

Helos
dodosim 206
cera simaircraft Bell 212 and 412


Default aircraft and Freeware imersive will be a separate List :salute:
 
Most immersive... ugh. No way I can pick one. I'll choose four from different categories of aircraft, in no particular order.

A2A Cub w/Accusim

A2A P-47 w/Accusim

PMDG MD-11X

Lotus L-39


Honorable Mentions:

Flight1 Citation Mustang
Classics Hangar FW-190's
PMDG J41
Eaglesoft Citation X 2.0 (post-VC upgrade patch)
VRS F-18 (coming soon)
 
Realair Spitfire
Ants tigermoth
The Classics Hangar Fw-190
Lotus L-39
Douglas DC2 :d

Cheers, Rob
 
bazzar said:
We've just "raised the bar". So, I'm immersing myself in a beer.:engel016:
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I have to say that after a few beers Fsx really does become a lot more immersive lol, theres nothing better than drunken flying and thinking especially after a carrier landing in a damanding jet the next morning " How the hell did I do that drunk but can't do it now while sober!" Beats me LOL :salute:
 
6297J said:
For me the most immersive - the nearest to giving a sense of actually being there is the A2A Cub. The difference in sound when you crack open a window or open a door, the direct effect that has on the temperature in the cabin, the way you are punished if you push the aircraft beyond it's capabilities, the very real sense of lift and air resistance when floating in on full rudder - it's truly breathtaking and no other add-on comes close for me. That's the one add-on I would keep if I had to choose.
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And pop Heidi into the front seat in mid flight and watch the nose drop from the additional weight she adds with the Accusim activated.

This is the one plane I would recommend to anyone starting to get into flight simulation. Just this and FSX/Accel. Compare the stock Cub with A2A's, master the A2A as best you can, to me it provides a base set of skills and knowledge that will make flying other planes more satisfying, it just makes you a better sim-pilot, in my opinion.

After that try Ant's Tiger Moth for touring, it's free and it's fabulous.

Funny that MS pulls the plug on ACES, the 2 year new release cycle ends. Plane, scenery, and other add on manufacturers can focus longer term on the FSX program and now we're seeing planes with capabilities I couldn't have imagined 3 years ago, and a world to fly in with scenery, weather, and other aspects that is very involving.

Sort of a golden age of flight simulation.
 
6297J said:
For me the most immersive - the nearest to giving a sense of actually being there is the A2A Cub. The difference in sound when you crack open a window or open a door, the direct effect that has on the temperature in the cabin, the way you are punished if you push the aircraft beyond it's capabilities, the very real sense of lift and air resistance when floating in on full rudder - it's truly breathtaking and no other add-on comes close for me. That's the one add-on I would keep if I had to choose.
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I am 100% in agreement: the A2A Cub is the nearest (virtual flying) to the real thing !!!!
Italo
 
doublecool said:
I like this thread, and the immersive idea,
but not all my favorite aircraft are immersive.

agreed Weather/scenery/sounds are important

Below list is what I consider immersive

Bush Flying -
A2As Piper
sibwing 305 Birddog
Lionhearts Kodiak
Carenado C185
Aersoft Bushhawk
Carenado 206
Flight Replica's Super Cub-Awesome!

GA Singles
Carenado Mooney
sibwings Saab Safir 91

GA Twin
Realair Duke

Turbo Props
PMDG JS-41
Digital Aviation Piper Cheyenne
Flight ones Pilatus PC-12

Private Jets
Flight ones Mustang Jet

Tubliners
A2A Boeing 377
CS 727
Wilcos E-jet

Modern Military
Aerosoft F-16
CS C-130
CS F-18
Skysim Dessault Mirage III
LotuSim L-39
Alphasim T-34C

WWII
A2A P-47
Realair Spitfire
Classic Hangers FW190 Series
Aerosoft Consolidated PBY

Misc.
Aerosoft Huges H1B

Helos
dodosim 206
cera simaircraft Bell 212 and 412


Default aircraft and Freeware imersive will be a separate List :salute:
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Excellent-absolutely excellent choices for immersion some I have actually flown or flown in. Freeware seprate I'm dying to get into Dino's new aircraft! You forgot Mike's Supercub-WOW!
Ted

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Another winner in my book is the RealAir SF-260. Quite a versatile airplane for versatile fun be it quality GA cross country flying or aerobatics. Realair's planes seemed to be smooth enough in their air files for hand flying IFR approaches off of approach plates.

Cheers
TJ
 
Ted you are right,

I was driven to work this morning and was thinking the same thing

Flight Replica's Super Cub-Awesome! :applause:

Ted I see you fixed it on your list can you fix my list too?
 
A2A Accu-Sim Cub for me also. I described that ''feeling'' in a post on the A2A forum last month I think it was.

For me, immervise is actually when I CAN'T put a word on it. In all my flight simming years, I have never enjoyed a minute of virtual flying as much as when I am in the A2A Cub. Like I said, it's just hard to define how great it is in that airplane.

I would add a ''freeware'' mention to the Auster J1. There's also ''something'' about that one.

I do have a few other add-on's, and enjoy spending time in them also. But for the total ''immersion'' package, it's the Cub to me.
 
Immersion

One that I am looking forward to after purchasing the FS9 version is the VRS Superbug. The amount of realism can be demanding at times but the satisfaction comes from mastering it. Like Ken said I want to see proper modelling of the engine parameters and fly by the numbers flight characteristics. It's not every day I want that level of realism but it is a real buzz when you catch yourself getting sweaty palms doing a single engine landing on a carrier at night.

Regards, Rob:ernae::ernae:
 
Immersion?

Flying in a fairly realistically depicted aircraft between fairly realistically depicted airports in fairly realistically depicted weather with fairly realistically depicted ATC.

So it's the default CRJ between e.g. Hannover and Prague with ASX and Radar Contact 4 running.

I've never had more fun than in those butt-hauls.


Yeah, you may stone me now.
 
doublecool said:
Ted you are right,

I was driven to work this morning and was thinking the same thing

Flight Replica's Super Cub-Awesome! :applause:

Ted I see you fixed it on your list can you fix my list too?
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I tried Amigo it didn't take it but Hey at least Mike knows what you wanted to do. His Super Cub is unique to itself. I think it and the L4, and Me262 stand out as primo aircraft! I can't even imagine a flight sim world without Flight Replica in it!
Ted
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fliger747 said:
I went to a six week program at Boeing in Seattle to learn to fly the Boeing 747-400, of which I have been a captain on for the last 11 years. PMDG's 747-400 is by far the most immersive aircraft yet done for this sim, as it was extensively tested and developed in cooperation with real world 747 drivers (me included) and by real jet pilots and mechanics. The immersion is not so much in the hands on flying of the plane, which is fine, but in the detail of making the FMC (computer) do everything it needs to do in real time and laying out your flight ahead of time and performing it to cue. To be good enough to not be asking "What's it doing now".

Perhaps not many peoples idea of fun, I use it to refresh procedures and familarize with new airports etc. It is a good replication of what we actually do today to fly, a very technical task, perhaps not with some of the glamor of days of old.

Cheers: t
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That is how I got into flight simulation. After returning to flying, I used FS2000 to pre-fly cross-country flights I was making for business.
 
There are two aircraft I find myself returning to time and time again. They are the Iris T-6II and the RealAir SF-260. Both airplanes seems real to me.
 
So which cub is better? The A2A or the FR Super Cub?

I hear a lot of people talking up the A2A cub, but the Super Cub looks more " fun " to me. Is it a fun vs realism thing? How do sounds compare? Flight modeling?

I am getting some good ideas from this thread on the planes I need to check into.
 
Most immersive airplanes in FSX? For me that's easy:

The three Accusim planes by A2A Simulations: The Piper J-3 Cub, P-47D Razorback and B-377 Stratocruiser.
 
Zorg_DK said:
Most immersive airplanes in FSX? For me that's easy:

The three Accusim planes by A2A Simulations: The Piper J-3 Cub, P-47D Razorback and B-377 Stratocruiser.
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Why? I got the B-377 and to me it stands out due to sound and engine system modeling. Not sure how those two things would make a big difference on the little Cub, but people here are rating it higher than the 377?
 
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