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Your top 5 favourite freeware downloads

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Oh I thought posky was a "given" ;-). For me at this particular moment:1. Any airplane by posky2. Any airport by Shez3. Any airport by Thomas Kwong4. SBuilder5. Any FreeFlow scenery(But how can ya really choose just five)

Intel i9-12900KF, Asus Prime Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, (3) SK hynix M.2 SSD (2TB ea.), 16TB Seagate HDD, Gigabyte GeForce 5080 RTX, Corsair iCUE H70i AIO Liquid Cooler, UHD/Blu-ray Player/Burner (still have lots of CDs, DVDs!)  Windows 10, (hold off for now on Win11),  EVGA 1300W PSU
Netgear 1Gbps modem & router, (3) 27" 1440 wrap-around displays
Full array of Bravo, Saitek and GoFlight hardware for the cockpit. Varjo and HP VR headsets for mixed reality.

Shoot, there were lots of posts here, and I only had *1* item mentioned (AEU, albeit version 7). I guess I'm not up on things...I do put POSKY up high. But what about HJG? Project Tupolev? etc. etc.There are so many to list!Rhett

Rhett

7800X3D 96 GB G.Skill Flare  Gigabyte 4090  Crucial P5 Plus 2TB

AI stuff1. World of AI: In my opinion these packages are even better than Project AI2. Ultimate GA: Very nice packages to add GA AI to the sim3. UK Military AI project: I like the idea of having military AI flying around my sim (and not just from the UK)Planes1. Daisuke Yamamoto & TEAM FS KBT's P-3 Orion2. IFDG Airbuses3. Posky4. Dreamwings Dash 8 planesScenery1. Fly Tampa's Boston airport freeware2. any of ISD's Italian airports3. any airport made by Shehryar Ansari (Shez)There are more but that's all I can think of for now.

Let's face it. Were spolied. Five is not near enough!

Al Stiff

1. EditVoicePack2. Traffic Tools3. AFCAD v24. Antilles 2004 (and many many other sceneries)5. various water texture replacements6. VOZ for its tropical verdureMartin

If I had to pick five, they would be:- David Maltby's BAC 1-11- iFly's 747-400- Milton Shupe's Twin Beech- Milton Shupe's Spartan- Thomas Nilsson's SAAB DrakenThose are the ones that I seem to spend most of my time flying.Honorable mention to RealAir's 172 as well.

John G.

-Hilmerby's DC9-FS KBT WP-3D -HJG DC8-63/Panel-Shupe&team Dash 7/Panel-Vistaliners 727/RP Panel.cheersJP.

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1. Project Tupolev Tu-154B2!!2. UNNT Novosibirsk from Tolmachevo Team3. USSS from Tolmachevo Team4. CIS ILS frequencies5. SKJ Active AI Traffic for wonderful Russian traffic

1. VOZ 1.22. Project Tupolev3. D.Maltby's BAC 1-114. ISD sceneries (LIRF, LIMC, LIML)5. Boston Logan v2 by G.GrimshawAnd, though it exceeds 5, the musthaves:FS tools like GMax, AFCAD2 or Traffic ToolsAnd yes, five is too few to mention all the freeware stars! ;)Best regards,Rafal

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Manny,Re. your no 14.Can't find "alternative_nav_lights.zip" on Avsim. Do you know the actual name of the file you are speaking of, or can give us a link?Regards,Stuart

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Very good question on trying to name 5 favorites: These are the ones I have been using lately. No particular order

Carl

PC AMD Ryzen R7-5700G (8-Core) processor), AMD Radeon RX 6600 Graphics 8GB/ 2TB HD + 500GB SSD,  16GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM, Win11

 

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