I was thinking today that it is becoming a problem lately, when I want to go flying, cause I can't figure out which plane to fly. Which do I like the best, is the first thing I think of. After I think about that, I realize that I should maintain some variety with my choices so that I don't become one dimensional as far as the aircraft choices I make. I thought really hard about it this morning , and struggled as usual with the choice of what to fly on the last day of the long new years weekend. I decided on my Flight 1 ATR and flew it on about 4 different flights today. I even hand flew it for the entire 200 mile flight from Toronto to the ILS in Albany, New York. I think it gets my vote as the best thing I have in the hanger. It flys great, looks great, and sounds great. What's your favorite and Happy New Year? :)

Favorite now, is a sleeper: SkyDecks Panel Design CRJ 200LR. It's low cost, and you use it with POSKY's CRJ200LR. The VC is quite weak, but visibility is great, .air file is excellent, and beautifully simple but clean and effective 2D panel. Use it with the freeware sound package. I have PMDG 737NG, B1900D, Piper Meridian, Eaglesoft Citation X . . . but for the last month it has been 96% CRJ200LR. VERY easy on your processor, so it flies like a dream in almost every situation. I was going to spring for the FeelThere ERJ after using this, but I am spoiled by the ease of which the Skydecks/POSKY plane is handled in any weather as far as my machine is concerned. 1600x1200x4xAAx16xAF.Happy New Year to you as well.Noel

I'm still flying the Dreamfleet Piper Archer from FS2002, modified for FS2004 :-lol Just don't seem to be able to better it as an all round GA aircraft.David

I can't really pick one, but I can narrow it down to a few...RealAir's Cessna 172R - To me this seems like almost the perfect Flightsim plane. It's easy on the framerates but still looks decent and has a fully functional VC, has solid flight dynamics and just seems to "fit" the sim right.Dreamfleet's Archer - almost the same comments as for the cessna above apply to this one.RealAir's Spitfire - just endlessly entertaining to fly.FSDzign's L1049 Connie - what I usually fly when I want to fly something a bit bigger...Theres quite a few others that I could mention and that I fly around almost as much as the above (Milton's Shrike, DF 727 and F1's ATR, the freeware Morane Sualnier) but these are the ones I'm in most consistently...

Every time I get in her cockpit I get really exited! ...that is RFP/POSKy :-kewlregardsEdhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/101978.jpg

Agree on the F1 C172 and Dreamfleet's Archer.... however, have to add three others:- RealAir SF260 Marchetti- Flight1 Piper Meridian- PMDG B1900D with RXP Jet Line 2 gauge package

EagleSoft's Citation X!

I spend probably 80% of my FS2004 time in one of these three:FSD Seneca VFSD Pilatus PorterDefault Mooney Bravo

Spitfire, Wings of Power (so many hard to choose they are all excellent)Also I am quite sure the MAAM DC 3 will become a favourite when I get it.Otherwise Meridian is awesome and easy to use.

I find myself flying mostly light GA planes either backing up my real world flight training or doing virtual bush flights. These are the planes I find myself in the most often.Australian Simulation Piper WarriorII/III - this is the plane I fly in my real-worl flight training and flies (atleast on my machine) just as the real-world counter parts do, minus the little quirks you find in each indivudual aircraft in the real world ofcourse. :-lolMikko Maliniemi's Maule M7-260 - An incredible aircraft, although I have no real-world experience in it. I use this one a lot in my bush flying.Aerosoft's DHC-2 Beaver Mrk I - This is a fun aricraft to fly, especially for those who have read or are interested in bush flying. This is the icon of the Alaskan bush. Growing up in Alaska, the family of one of my classmates owned a business with a fleet of these things.----------------------------------------------------------------John S. MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satillite, Private 130+ hrs.Virtual: MSFS 2004"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach

John,Do you find that the Australian Sims Piper Warrior is pretty rough on framerates?

Flightsoft's Fly To Hawaii 2004 on a DC10

Not the Warrior II, but the Warrior III in VC mode tends to be a little tough.----------------------------------------------------------------John S. MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satillite, Private 130+ hrs.Virtual: MSFS 2004"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach

I forgot to mention this too. If you go to the Aussim forums for the Piper, Brad's announced that he's working on a patch for the package and it's looking to include new avionics and several fixes.----------------------------------------------------------------John S. MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satillite, Private 130+ hrs.Virtual: MSFS 2004"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach

My current favorites are:Flight1 Cessna 172FSD Piper Seneca VJim