I'm looking for planes that are framerate-friendly. Other than the defaults, what do folks suggest? Several of the Bill Lyons planes fall into this category. Any others?

Generally speaking, I find some of the older planes the 'friendliest' (I suppose this makes sense!). Examples of this are the Dreamfleet Archer and the PSS Airbus A320. Of the newer planes, anything by RealAir, or the Level-D 767. I don't think any of these are as friendly as the default planes, and results obviously depend on your system and your settings.Boogie.

Milton Shupe's recent D18S is very framerate friendly. It's free too. If you want something a little "heavier", David Maltby's superb Trident is real easy on the FPS too...

The already mentioned B18 is very fps friendly on my lowly P3/800. On the payware side, I don't know about Carenado's newer planes, but their V35 is very fps friendly. Anything with Erick Cantu's name attached is fps friendly--his 737's, 727's and MD-8/9'x projects. And several months ago I released an Eclipse 500 that I updated from a Dave Eckert original model, with a simple VC and cabin--and it is very fps friendly as well. A year or so before that I released a Piper Malibu w/Chuck Dome. Numerous other projects are out there from many authors so you'll get more suggestions I am certain.-John

For Heavy Iron, try the MelJet 777 and 747-400's, and most of the POSKY (Project Opensky) planes, without the VC's, fly smoothly on my 1 GHz, 640mb NVidia 5600 ultra Dell, depending on scenery complexity. Soon to be getting a new rig though, at last!http://www.alaska.faa.gov/fai/Clipart/SmlAcft.gifAlex ChristoffN562ZBaltimore, MD

One plane I always turn to when I want to zip around and check out some new scenery, etc. is the airhead freeware Decathlon. It's an extremely nice airplane, visually and in the flight model. And very frame rate friendly.Jim

Mike Stone's aircraft will fit the bill- all of his aircraft are very frame-rate friendly and he also makes frame-rate friendly panels to go with them (www.pmstone.com)