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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

What is your fave freeware FS site?

L

Lionheart

SOH-CM-2014
Hey all,


What is your fave FS freeware website?

Mine was Flightsim.com but I am leaning towards Simviation. I also revisted SurClaro last night and was pretty impressed with how they have evolved. I didnt know they now sell payware as well.




Bill
 
flightsim.com is the one i visit most often, i used to go to simviation a lot and still do occasionally but the 30kbs download limit is too slow for me...
 
I go to flightsim more often than not although their search engine is not very intuitive. I used Surclaro almost exclusively when I first got into simming but moved away slow but sure as I found more freeware sites.
 
Well, I upload my stuff to flightsim and simviation because those are the one's I look at first.

Cheers, Paul

:wavey:
 
Basically this one, flightsim.com and avsim.com

Avsim tends to offer the fastest downloads.

Some of the best native freeware is found here though!
 
I used to be avsim.com, then flightsim.com and Simviation.com dead last. SimV posts a lot of unauthorized port-overs.

However, these days, I go SimV first, because it's easiest and I must be getting lazy as I get older. Then, Avsim, although the missing links tend to be a turn off. Lastly, I'll go to flightsim.com because of the complicated search engine and the sign-in-every-time page.
 
I'm getting off subject here but

I've never had any trouble with any sites that make me log in each time. I log in once, when I'm finished doing what I had to do, I just close the tab. Each time after that, I'm in every time.
...By chance do you have your browser set to delete certain cookies each time you close it? That may be the trouble.
 
I'm a member at both Flightsim and Simviation, so D/L's are quick. I check both and Avsim daily. My fav is probably Flightsim.
 
For the past year or more Flightsim has been my first go to for freeware...ever since AVSIM was hacked and crashed.

AVSIM is probably second followed by Simviation. Although like others have said Simviation allows quite a few hacks that upload unauthorized port overs.

I would frequent Surclaro daily in my FS9 days but it's very rare I go over there now.

For IL-2 my main spot these days is All Aircraft Arcade.

-G-
 
Well, this may surprise you but...

My daily routine starts with SOH. There are some posts with links to download freeware paints you will not find anywhere else. :wiggle:

After I check the important threads and downloads at SOH, the next stops in order include Avsim, Flightsim and ClassicBritishFiles.com.

If I'm looking for something specific I check the above places first, then I go take a look at Simviation. After that its a Google search, and who knows where I end up.. :monkies:

--WH
 
I use Simviation for CFS2 files.

I would love to say this site was my favourite but I often have trouble finding what I want.

The sites I use are what ever the recommendations come from, and most links seem to be to flightsim. I think this site would be used more if people would link to the downloads as they gave the heads up that they were available. Most of my freeware comes from recommendations and links from this site these days.

A few years ago Netwings was my favourite for the combat side of things. But there is a place for them all and I am sure I am missing out on a lot of good stuff because I do not know it is there.

I recently started buying an English Flight Sim magazine in Australia and it has a listing of all the freeware sites as one of it's DVD files. One day I will have to check some of the sites out.

Cheers MarkL
 
I'm a member of Flightsim, and give to SoH and Avsim bandwidth drives. I rarely use SimV because they won't let you search by file name, and even their keyword searches make you dig thru many non related stuff. The other places I go are from links posted here. This is pretty much the only FS forum I frequent. I may check in on others when an interesting topic is posted about here.

I've found the secret to SoH's search for new stuff... Click on "Warbird's Library" button on upper menu list, then on "What's New" in the drop down. Everything listed by date. My first place to go when checking in, which I do a couple times a day.
 
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