I'm looking for a good general aviation aircraft with the above requirements.  When I mean good in xwind, I mean handles and can land/takeoff in crosswinds.  Most of my planes are so twitchy they're yawing about on the runway (more like a dance).  The Carenado A36 is pretty nice, except the xwind performance is bad.  Unless it's something I'm doing I have poor success with it.  Also the Aspen is a PITA to manipulate in the VC.

 

I was considering their C340 but worried about the xwind performance again.  At least the mouse manipulators would be easy because of the no glass.

 

Any suggestions?  I've already got the ever popular freeware planes, Piaggio, Eclipse, widepanel cessna project, (payware) MU2

Carenado's C90 King Air or JRollons Jet Stream 32 from X-Aviation.

I find the C340 II ok ... I just prefer turbo-props!

I also like (and own) the two choices pointed out by Carlos. These are arguably my favourites! However, with the JS-32 I'd recommend that you edit it in PlaneMaker and change the engines to CCW and CW .. because the JS-32 does exhibit the overdone torque propensity that everyone was talking about a while back.

 

I notice you already have the MU-2B ... and it handles OK in a crosswind as long as you have the rudder pedals. Make sure you have the latest patch 1.5.

A WAY underrated aircraft IMO is the STMA Pilatus PC-12 .. it handles beautifully and has complex systems (for an X-Plane t-prop) but the 3D cockpit and graphics isn't up to the current crop of brilliance that's available. In fact, if the graphics and 3D pit were updated on the PC-12 .. I would buy it all over again even if nothing else was updated.

 

Cheers!

Yeah the graphics are "meh" but maybe I'll check it out for $25, thanks for the recommendation!

I'll add to all  of the above, anything from C74.net.

 

Jason's aircraft are very good and inexpensive!

Yeah the graphics are "meh" but maybe I'll check it out for $25, thanks for the recommendation!

 

Someone on PE just posted a video of that airplane. Not sure if you can handle X-Plane's PT6A, though (or was that jcomm?).

I don't like FSX / P3D or X-Plane modelling of free-runing turbines. None does it correctly...

 

I have a perfect model in my ELITE B200 though :-)

The issue I've found is (default king air), the engine spool up and interaction with throttles is instantaneous. It reacts like a piston.

 

How does the JS32 do? (Geared TP right?)

And... there isn't really a free-turbine model... You can vary prop RPM and see FF varying as well, at constant throttle / alt ...

To tell you the truth, I can't even start the default king air. Saw some vids where people introduce fuel before even starting, so I kind of gave up on that. Even noticed this on Dan's vid on the new C90 and asked about it on the .org. Didn't get an answer on it. It has raindrops, though ...

I don't Know if it floats your boat or not but I have always enjoyed the Carenado C337 Mixmaster.

 

I have it on both FSX and XP. The GPS is pretty basic but it handles the wind well enough and you don't have to worry about turbine spool up being piston powered.  I can't comment on the manipulators as mostly use hardware for knob control.

Yes! The Carenado C337 is one of my favourites! I have too many taht I like .. sorry I missed this one, it's really fun to fly as well.

 

Also a freeware Baron 58 by awall86 on the Org .. is highly rated and complete.