What if FSX....

[bazzar]

nahhh who in heir right mind would make one of those...

 

[gera]

Here some equations .....if all cars were colored "black" as Mr. Ford wished, how would you like them? or if all women were really fat.......

 

[nio]

Spitfire by RealAir gets it for me;

closely followed by Ant's fantastic freeware Tiger Moth for which he has my lasting appreciation and thanks;

closely followed by the four packaged set of Golden Age Simulations Stearmans which are an absolute joy to fly.

But that's just me.

best

nio

 

[Snave]

Without the open architecture none of us would be here having these conversations in this and the many other fora devoted to the subject.

It is ONLY the open architecture that has given FS its franchise duration, its ongoing appeal - and its market potential for itself and the aftermarket. The strength of FS sales was always its ability to sustain a volume month-on-month, year-on-year, justifying its shelf position. I have always put that down not to clever advertising or exceptional marketing by MS, not even dwell or duration of the actual product (there are other sims I actually have used for longer) but the fact that as initial sales start to drop off, the aftermarket arrives to `pick up the slack` -and in so doing re-energises the basic products' appeal.

The clue for me is in answering the question:
The default I fly most is the 172, mainly for homogeneity and consistency in the testing environment - but the difference in simulator hours between it and my most-flown addon is a factor of TEN.
...an addon that didn't arrive until nearly two years after FSX was released...

 

[tanocapo]

Even when your selection is quite short in terms of variety, i would say that i'd fly most of the time the beech baron and the boeing 737.