Which Plane to get?

[marco1989 19]

Hi all, 

which of those planes would you more recommend? 

Regards

Marco

[JLuis 409]

Very dificult question, but I will go Fslabs.

[Doug47 574]

737 >>> Junkers 88 > airbus. Cant beat the NG for performance and looks. 

[Ricardo41 5,949]

Get the Aerosoft A318-321 Professional, with the money you've saved you can also buy the PMDG bird.

Or, if you really want a bang for your buck: 1. Aerosoft Airbus Professional, 2. ifly 737 and QW 787 - these three planes together will still set you back less than what you would pay for the FSLabs Airbusses. 

[julian46 21]

here is a fun freeware one - https://www.rikoooo.com/downloads/viewdownload/51/813

also works well with the RealityXP GTN 750 on sale till the end of the month

 

 

[Peter Z KCLE_EDDN 336]

There is no wrong answer, both are superior simulations. I’m more of a bus guy, but I have both and love them both equally. 
 

Cheers,

Pete

[chapstick 2,757]

59 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

Get the Aerosoft A318-321 Professional, with the money you've saved you can also buy the PMDG bird.

Or, if you really want a bang for your buck: 1. Aerosoft Airbus Professional, 2. ifly 737 and QW 787 - these three planes together will still set you back less than what you would pay for the FSLabs Airbusses. 

These are all mediocre products that’ll leave you bored and disappointed. Save your money for the really good stuff.

[Chock 17,769]

It's really up to you. They're both very good. The difference is really in the way they are flown/operated. Which of these operational methodologies you prefer will likely inform your choice in the best way, since both products are excellent simulations of the real thing.

The A320 is the more sophisticated aeroplane of the two in terms of avionics and control. It follows the typical Airbus ethos of expecting the pilots to provide the right information to the systems on board the aeroplane, so that the aeroplane can fly itself correctly and safely by means of its automated systems. There is some manual control involved, but it would be fair to say that much of the time, an A320 is 'operated' rather than 'flown'.

Being based on an airframe which is well over fifty years old and which was designed when even the concept of not having three crew members flying the aeroplane was revolutionary, the Boeing is a much older and simpler aeroplane in terms of avionics and control. As such, it follows the typical Boeing ethos whereby the aeroplane's avionics provide information to the pilots, so that they can use that information to decide how best to fly the aeroplane correctly and safely, either on autopilot or manually. So whilst much of the time the flight is conducted automatically, it would be fair to say that the 737 is more of a hands-on 'pilot's aeroplane' than the A320 is.

Learning and understanding all of the stuff on the A320 is a rewarding challenge, but having said all that, if you are new to flying simulated airliners, the 737 is perhaps the ideal 'learner airliner' by virtue of it having less complex automation. So of these two different, but equally rewarding experiences, pick which one you think you'd enjoy the most.

Edited April 25, 2020 by Chock

[regis9 4,014]

Both are great but personally I would rank the FSLabs Airbus just ahead of the ngxu.

[micstatic 4,319]

The fslabs. More modern. Icing effects not just visually but also for performance. So deice actually does something.  Then the intangible. It is a joy to fly. I like the pmdg 737 but not as much 

[mpw8679 428]

4 hours ago, Ricardo41 said:

Get the Aerosoft A318-321 Professional, with the money you've saved you can also buy the PMDG bird.

Or, if you really want a bang for your buck: 1. Aerosoft Airbus Professional, 2. ifly 737 and QW 787 - these three planes together will still set you back less than what you would pay for the FSLabs Airbusses. 

The FSLabs and PMDG birds are far superior to any of these.  

[Doug47 574]

4 hours ago, regis9 said:

Both are great but personally I would rank the FSLabs Airbus just ahead of the ngxu.

Why? The airbus is pretty overrated. 

[HighBypass 2,339]

Marco - your choice can also depend upon if you want to go for a "lite" model  - less in-depth and complex that the two in your poll.

[Chock 17,769]

38 minutes ago, Doug47 said:

Why? The airbus is pretty overrated. 

Not really, the FSL A320 is without doubt a more complex simulation than any other aeroplane you can get for FSX or P3D, simply because it is simulating far more sophisticated avionics and computer control than any other simulated aeroplane. The only other one which has a good claim to equaling it in realistic detail, is the Majestic Dash 8 Q400 in its 'Training' and 'Pro' versions, since both these versions feature some stuff which no other add-on simulates at all, i.e. all the circuit breakers and and maintenance functions of the real aeroplane. Even the FSL A320 doesn't go into that level of detail because these are things which the pilots will never normally bother with, but, what it does do, is pretty much everything else, and on an aeroplane which has five different flight models depending on what has failed or been switched out, that's some really complex simulation, even if we disregard all the other stuff it simulates in obsessive detail.

This does not mean that the PMDG (and indeed the iFly) 737 NGs are not good representations of the real aeroplane, but there simply was no need to simulate so much in terms of avionics and flight characteristics on those products in order to create a good representation of the aeroplane they were attempting to replicate. But it is why for many years, very many people were claiming that simulating an A320 on FSX (and subsequently on P3D) couldn't even be done, and why we had to wait years for a developer to actually pull it off successfully. You only have to look at how many half-@rsed and abortive attempts there have been at making an A320 for flight simulators over the years before FSL pulled it off, to know this is true.

Edited April 26, 2020 by Chock

[pete_auau 1,159]

All  depends  on how  much money  you  want  to  spend,  really   you  really  cant  go  wrong  in either  one  of  them, but  the  fsl  320  is just  ahead  of the  ngxu by  a nose.