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My favorite plane

gera said:
The BAC 111----flies like a dream and its not like the new tubes full of gadgets and whisles...just a good twin jet of old times........
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I liked the 111 in FS9, but not for virtual airline operations since it guzzled more expensive Jet-A on one flight than the CRJ did on two.

I just wish there was a native FSX version...
 
I actually keep a spread sheet of all my aircrfat (consists of 40+ aircraft).... yes, I'm serious :icon_lol: about the spread sheet.....So....I look through my list occasionally and start flying those I have neglected in an attempt to even out the hours flown in each. Now, the hours do not actually indicate a 'favorite'.

My top ten

1) My various ES Cirrus' (SR20, SR22, and SR22 Turbo) combined: 88.10 hours
2) ES Piper Twinkie: 71.9 hours
3) Carenado Mooney: 61 hours
4) Dreamfleet Piper Dakota: 54.3 hours
5) Aerosoft F16: 42.6 hours
6) MAAM DC3: 41 hours
7) Carenado 182Q: 39.6 hours
8) Aerosoft Twotter: 35.6 hours
9) A2A B377: 35.1 hours
10) ES Beechjet-Hawker: 33.1 hours

...and the Lionheart Viking, ES Columbia, RealAir Duke, and Carenado cessna 182RG and 152 all with 30 and above.

Right now, I'm trying to get more time in the RealAir Scout and SF-260, which are both in the mid-20's...not sure why as the Scout was one of my most flown in FS9.

Need to also get more time in the RealAir Spit, the Aerosoft Beaver, my fairly new CaptainSim C-130, Piglet's WACO and Mite, and more.

It is really hard to pick a favorite, as I fly in 'trips' and try to use the same aircraft for most my 'adventures', and also try to select the aircraft that is 'best suited'; which is why I can 'rack-up' many hours in one aircraft fairly quickly. Right now, I'm planning another trip to Europe from Cleveland, and am thinking of using the B377.

I have to start planning that soon....sure wish GEX Europe would come out soon :icon_lol:
 
in no particular order

Realair Scout

default Cub

Carenado Piper 180 and C150

Christen Eagle and Icarus Pitts

Extra300 and P-51 default

Beech Baron default

lately the neoqb Dr1 to get familiar :kilroy:
 
1. A2A Boeing 377 with Accusim
2. A2A P-47 with Accusim
3. A2A Boeing B-17
4. A2A WOP II P-51D
5. A2A P-40B
6. FH FW190
7. Real Air Spitfire
8. LvLD 767-300
9. N2035s Pete
10. piper cub with 85 HP engine

i wish the 377 had the 4,300 HP engines over the 3,500 HP ones
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Ark said:
I do believe TSS (Turbine Sound Studios) has a replacement pack for the Carenado 206 sounds. You should be able to find them at SimMarket. You might want to give them a try. I hear (no pun intended) TSS does some pretty nice work.
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oh man! thanks for the heads up! that's the kind of thing that turns a frown upside-down! :applause:
 
I am a tinkerer, really, not much of a flyer, so I fly what I am currently tinkering with. If I want a plane in which to just FLY, than I usually gravitate toward Milton Shupes OR Aerosofts Beech 18s (both are equally good, but very different, I keep them both because they both fit a different mood). The Carenado Piper Arrow, Cessna 172N and Cessna 206 all get a lot of flight-time, and Lionhearts Kodiak, Aerosofts Beaver, Bill Lyons Goose, and the AH Civvie Tigermoths round out my flight profile. Other favorites include the Section F8 Sabre, the Alphasim F-106, and the Alphasim Hunter...
 
Long Island Classics Christen Eagle - even in FSX... (mind you I keep hoping to find one as good or better)

There are a fair few better made models, but none as exhilerating.
 
A2A's WW2 Fighters P-51D and IRIS' F-14 Tomcat, followed at a close 3rd place Classic Hangar's FW-190. Good stuff all around.
 
CBris said:
Long Island Classics Christen Eagle - even in FSX... (mind you I keep hoping to find one as good or better)

There are a fair few better made models, but none as exhilerating.
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one of my fav fs9 planes, and you have done soooo many cool paints for it.
did you have to modify anything for it to fly in fsx?
 
I don't suppose that anybody would be surprised if I said the EE Lightning and the F-4, closely followed by the Skysim Mirage III, the Aerosoft F-16 and the RAZBAM EA-6B.

Dave
 
In no particular order and all of these have had air and config files "tweaked" :engel016:
Decathlon 8KCAB as I used to actually fly one :wiggle:
Goose
Beriev 103 Amphib
C-17 because it can go almost anywhere in any wx
727-100
F-14d
F-111
 
Ooouuh, this is not easy . One month ago it would have been another list,
but at the moment the list looks like this:
1. Aerosoft Catalina
2. RealAir Duke
3. A2A P-47 AccuSim
4. Classic Hangars FW-190
5. Aerosoft F-16
6. SkySim BEe Hawk
7. Flight Replicas Me-262
8. RealAir Spitfire
9. Aerosoft Hughes H-1B
10.Aerosoft Twin Otter
 
I loved the Kodiak, Always does.... I still have the old ... old version where I can do missions.... deliver stuff to the villages and transport few people. I have not finished the whole mission yet, I am keeping it in another computer, I enjoy landing the Kodiak in a very remote villages.... I have not perfected it yet, since I fly other aircraft and get busy.

This was the first plane that I really put my time into.... flying, crashing (oops) I have it for about a year now and still enjoys it. Maybe one of these days I can finally give it up to give way to the newest version....

The second one i love most is the Cessna, and the Epic.... The cessna because i can fly slow and low and enjoy the sceneries.... and the Epic, because it is zooms real fast, real friendly, like driving a brand new kick-behind bugatti :jump:

Eli

PS...

My daughter loves the Cirrus Mission, Avanti, Beech King-Air, Piper Malibu.... Columbia 40 and Cessna 172! Those are her favs SIX!





 
My favourite aircraft has to be the Heinkel 111. The reason being is that during World War II, my father used to fly this particular aircraft with Kg 26. Alphasim has a very good rendition of this venerable aircraft and my second choice would have to be the Dornier 217 which my father used to fly for a brief period.
 
Chacha said:
I loved the Kodiak, *** I have not perfected it yet, since I fly other aircraft and get busy. *****
This was the first plane that I really put my time into.... flying, crashing (oops)****
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i agree
it's a tricky one to land well. you really have to be paying attention.
i still bugger the landings sometimes if i don't keep my speed up, or if i hit full flaps too early.
 
Anything by Piglet, Anything by Carenado, The Duke, Twinkie, C-130, Anything by Lionheart--and yes, since my dad had over 3000 hours in them, the good old A/B-26 invaders--I still want a TRUE fsx version, though the fixes seem ok in it---
 
Currently the A2A P-47 with Accusim, Aerosoft Catalina and Accelerartion F-18. Since I installed FSX I have accumulated most hours in the Maule, Aerosoft Hughes H1 and DC 3, although the P-47 quickly climbs to the top in that list.


bkeske said:
I actually keep a spread sheet of all my aircrfat (consists of 40+ aircraft).... yes, I'm serious :icon_lol: about the spread sheet.....So....I look through my list occasionally and start flying those I have neglected in an attempt to even out the hours flown in each.
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There is (or will be again) a nice toll available at avsim: fsxlogbook. It reads your loogbook.bin file and creates automatically neat statistics like a list of all planes with the hours you have flown them.
 
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