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Surprises of 2008

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dswo

Charter Member 2011
I knew the RealAir Spitfire was going to be great, and the Aerosoft F-16. What took me by surprise was the Aerosoft Hughes Racer. It looks different, takes great screenshots, has a well crafted vintage VC, you have to manage the engine, and framerates are solid.

What were your unexpected favorites of 2008?
 
I would say the A2A 377.

I expected a great product coming from A2A but what surprised me is just how much I enjoy flying it. I expected to like it, not love it :)
 
Dino's T-45, Piglet's A-29, and Alphasim's Blackhawk are three that I really enjoy and wasn't expecting. There's more nice stuff, but I either haven't flown it yet, or I knew it was coming.
 
The F-16 made my day when it was released. I was expecting the Cat too, but since they had to start all over again with another developer (but it's the same guy of the H-1 and the screenshots of the not-yet-finished 'pit, are already looking extremely good)...but as you say, the Real Air Spit is a magnificent add-on. It's not perfect, but of a very high standard (despite my other words about it on another forum).

I'd like more decent amphibians for FSX in 2009.
 
I think the most unexpected pleasant surprises for me were:-

Alphasim's Mentor, Icarus's Gladiator and Realflight's Hellcat - a lot of others were no surprise and mentioned above.

Now - do we have space to list the many nasty moneywasting suprizes? Nah - we all know who they are!
 
Not really a surprise but very pleased with Capt Sims C-130 for FSX.

Aerosoft Tahiti X is terrific as Harleyman says, and I just ordered Aerosoft VFR London X.
 
Lots of goodies that satisfied; Tim's 200D is a great treat :woot: (as is his Mohawk which I know has been out for ages but I only got around to downloading it this week!).

Very pleased with the Iris F-20 and P-40 (Aces of the Commonwealth) and everything Orbx has brought out too!

Fav would probably be the Carenado 152 though - simple, feature-full and wonderful flight model! :applause:

Note to Tim on 200D - where are the dog treats??? :icon_lol:
 
Alphasim's Mentor has to be the biggest surprise of the year to me. I hope it wasn't a one off and the Islander is on a par.
 
I'm still alive :amen:. That asside: CS130 Pro that I only paid 14.00 USD. OOps that was 2009. Airbus freeware B318, B320 and A2A's 377.

David :jump:
 
My old clunker still running.

Plus buying Capt Sim C-130 Pro and Legendary Mig-21 for 13.58US... each. David, their 24 hour sale was 12/29/08.
 
LMAO.... Only put up the date as I had the the order info printed out and sitting here in front of me. Wife found it while I was gone today. I got this from her.... :173go1:.
 
Biggest surprises, huh?

A2A B377 what an incredible airplane they did-Accusim is just H-O-T!:applause:

I would say Piglet's peculiar planes but he consistantly turns out great aircraft-no surprise there

Carenado's C-152 is just sweeeeeeeet-I wanna be surprised by a real good Cessna 140 in 2009 and Bill's Kodiak-Bill is a master developer too ya know

i7 Core release for testing(now released for the public) I'm in love:woot:

Mike's incredible L4-that came outta da blue-thank you Mike what a great plane she is

Ted
 
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