Unpopular...Oh well.

[mike_cyul]

Hummm, that sounds as if something is cooking near a Piper cub.......great! or am I wrong....have you flown Chile and the nurse up the mountains????

Nope, no yet, I can't find a continuous hour free! Soon, I hope!

And no, no C-46's from me. Sounded like you were doing one.

Mike

 

[anthony31]

Crow: Hi cat, do you need a ME 109, Corsair, P-51, Spit, Hurricane and Jug?
Cat: Holy cow!! A talking crow!

 

[cheezyflier]

Crow: Hi cat, do you need a ME 109, Corsair, P-51, Spit, Hurricane and Jug?
Cat: Holy cow!! A talking crow!

when i read your post and think of you avatar saying it, i lol'd. thanks

 

[skyblazer3]

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Not sure what it all means..... but I think we'll have some nice aircraft this summer and fall.

 

[Snave]

If someone did actually make a high-quality C-46, I'd be like a cat that got the canary...

 

[guzler]

There's two schools of thought on this:

1: Payware drives developers to make `safe` choices for the generation of maximum revenue by choosing only the `popular` models

I'd say there are sufficient examples of top-selling payware that was never asked for or thought of as `mass market` before being released to prove that theory specious - almost the entire Lionheart catalogue, Shockwave/A2A B377, the new Islander, The PMDG J41 etc. etc

2: The enthusiast market is a flight sim enthusiast market, not a `particular aircraft enthusiast` market. A good product, properly marketed, correctly priced and properly supported will provide it's own customer base.

L-39 Albatros - perfect example of a plane nobody knew we wanted, but now is the vanguard of comparison. Dunno about sales of the P-36, but that's another that creates its own market. Conversely, there are very popular aircraft that are modelled but which fail to set the sales charts on fire.

For the purposes of FSX, all you can conclude is that the `unpopular` aircraft are simply packages that don't sell, nothing more. Attempting to read any more into it than that on a broad-based theory simply isn't going to define either the reason for the popularity, nor the apparent failure. Both Crow and Cat have a point, but neither have an abacus, nor a crystal ball...

Great points. Now a superbly marketed 737-200, Halifax or Stirling would be well recieved......by me anyway !!!!

 

[Snave]

Great points. Now a superbly marketed 737-200, Halifax or Stirling would be well recieved......by me anyway !!!!

Quite right. What HAS been ably demonstrated is that `out of the ordinary` products WILL succeed, if their quality is good enough. It really hasn't got a lot to do with popularity of the real deal. `Old school` still works with the paying public, just as much as glass and electrickery.
It's the quality of the simulated product rather than the aircraft itself that seems to be the common denominator.

 

[Matt Wynn]

ooooooh a halifax would be nice, and yes so would a stirling.... what about a Sundy?

 

[Bjoern]

Me Too Bjoern, but I am using fsds 3.5 which I know some. Presently making a favorite of mine.....and yes, animals do talk to each other.

I wonder what they're thinking of us. Probably nothing good.

What are you working on, by the way?

Now a superbly marketed 737-200

Clone me twice and you'll get a freeware one.