Best GA Airplane For World Tour?

[iFlySimX 746]

Hi everyone! I am looking to do a world tour and I wanted to ask you what the best GA airplane would be? Can be default MSFS plane or an add-on like Carenado. Let me know your thoughts! 

Edited April 28, 2021 by Clem116

[himmelhorse 1,276]

TBM930 with WorkingTitle modded G3000 would be a great start in my opinion.  Good performance 85knot landing speed will get you into most short airfields and a range of about 1730 nautical miles.

Tony

[iFlySimX 746]

11 minutes ago, himmelhorse said:

TBM930 with WorkingTitle modded G3000 would be a great start in my opinion.  Good performance 85knot landing speed will get you into most short airfields and a range of about 1730 nautical miles.

Tony

Thanks! Any good TBM930 mods out there or just use the default?

[himmelhorse 1,276]

There is one on flightsim.to I believe but I do not know who the author is. The G3000 Working Title mod is almost mandatory.  Truly excellent, To top it all off there are some really good liveries available as well on flightsim.to

Another heartily recommended GA is the Rob Young Bonanza G36 turbo modded aircraft.  Somebody here could possibly give you a link to all of those, but I do not know how to do that.

The yl3 Vertigo turbo mod is another aircraft which is great and incredibly rapid. That is also available in flightsim.to

Good Luck

Tony

[GACSavannah 227]

TBM930 MOD...you want this...

https://flightsim.to/file/8288/tbm930-improvement-mod

 

Garmin G3000 Mod... you want this as well...

https://github.com/Working-Title-MSFS-Mods/fspackages/releases/tag/g3000-v0.5.1

Looks like there is a newer update for the G3000 Mod...

https://github.com/Working-Title-MSFS-Mods/fspackages/releases/tag/g3000-v0.6.0

Edited April 28, 2021 by GACSavannah

[marsman2020 1,310]

I'm 9000 miles in with the Turbo(normalized) Bonanza, which is well mannered,a nice speed bump over the normal Bonanza, and feels great the landing flare -

The only downside to the Bonanza is there is no de-icing or anti-icing.  So I've had to be careful to avoid icing conditions, and even being very careful I have landed a couple of times with the synthetic vision and a 1" open space on the windshield where the '100% icing' texture stil has some visibility through it.

The Diamond DA62 has anti-icing that is good for a couple of hours in icing conditions, and roughly similar speeds to the Turbo Bonanza. 

A lot of people like the TBM930.

If you have a greater need for speed but want to stick with a smaller aircraft vs the TBM930 there is GotGravel's new Vertigo.  However this is a high performance aircraft that is quite a bit more demanding to stay "ahead" of then the Bonanza, much like the real-world experimental aircraft it is based on is likely a bit of a handful to fly:

https://flightsim.to/file/13052/vertigo-turbo-prop-racer

I think it would be down to one of these 4 if I were to start out now.  I test flew pretty much all of the aircraft in the sim before I started out, but there are a lot more aircraft available now.

The Just Flight Arrow III is also an excellent aircraft, but it's too slow for my taste for a world tour.  There should be a Turbo variant of that coming soon.

Edited April 28, 2021 by marsman2020

[ryanbatc 12,770]

Vertigo!  (highly experimental but great speed or slow if ya like, and great cockpit visibility).

Oh it also has a autopilot if you download the WT G3X mod

https://flightsim.to/file/13052/vertigo-turbo-prop-racer

[marsman2020 1,310]

Also I'll say that history also played a part in picking the Bonanza, since I am following approximately the route of the 1924 Douglas World Cruiser flight, and the Bonanza is the oldest aircraft still in serial production with the first models coming out in 1947.

[ryanbatc 12,770]

1 minute ago, marsman2020 said:

Also I'll say that history also played a part in picking the Bonanza, since I am following approximately the route of the 1924 Douglas World Cruiser flight, and the Bonanza is the oldest aircraft still in serial production with the first models coming out in 1947.

Let's have a big argument (just kidding!) - There's a really nice Bonanza paint in the flightsim.to section....Olive Ann Beech edition... Perfect for a world tour I would think:

https://flightsim.to/file/13366/bonanza-g36-75th-anniversary-olive-ann-beech-tribute

[fppilot 4,335]

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[ryanbatc 12,770]

Just now, fppilot said:

The Realair Turbine Duke V2 in FSX!

Can you imagine a proper turbine duke in MSFS?  Heaven.

[fppilot 4,335]

56 minutes ago, marsman2020 said:

I'm 9000 miles in with the Turbo(normalized) Bonanza, which is well mannered,a nice speed bump over the normal Bonanza, and feels great the landing flare -

The only downside to the Bonanza is there is no de-icing or anti-icing.  So I've had to be careful to avoid icing conditions, and even being very careful I have landed a couple of times with the synthetic vision and a 1" open space on the windshield where the '100% icing' texture stil has some visibility through it.

The Diamond DA62 has anti-icing that is good for a couple of hours in icing conditions, and roughly similar speeds to the Turbo Bonanza. 

A lot of people like the TBM930.

If you have a greater need for speed but want to stick with a smaller aircraft vs the TBM930 there is GotGravel's new Vertigo.  However this is a high performance aircraft that is quite a bit more demanding to stay "ahead" of then the Bonanza, much like the real-world experimental aircraft it is based on is likely a bit of a handful to fly:

https://flightsim.to/file/13052/vertigo-turbo-prop-racer

I think it would be down to one of these 4 if I were to start out now.  I test flew pretty much all of the aircraft in the sim before I started out, but there are a lot more aircraft available now.

The Just Flight Arrow III is also an excellent aircraft, but it's too slow for my taste for a world tour.  There should be a Turbo variant of that coming soon.

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Edited April 28, 2021 by fppilot

[fppilot 4,335]

11 hours ago, ryanbatcund said:

Can you imagine a proper turbine duke in MSFS?  Heaven.

Not without fully functional GPS avionics, better live weather, and complete navdata.

[Bobsk8 12,489]

The Arrow 3 Turbo which is supposed to be released by Just Flight fairly soon cruises at 170 Knots. The Bonanza cruises at 173 Knots.  I will take the JF Arrow any day of the week.  

[Glenn Fitzpatrick 3,798]

2 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

The Arrow 3 Turbo which is supposed to be released by Just Flight fairly soon cruises at 170 Knots. The Bonanza cruises at 173 Knots.  I will take the JF Arrow any day of the week.  

To be honest i would not trust either of those piston singles over the long stretches of water needed for an around the world trip.

I love piston aircraft and especially radials, but turbines are a far safer option flying over water or jungle. They break far less often.