How many are still flown?

[MrBitstFlyer 3,882]

I follow a simple plan - a new plane has been released so buy it  😁

[asanosho 55]

18 hours ago, TuFun said:

I remember this freeware aircraft when it first came out many years ago and is still flown in my world to this day.  One of the reasons to keep P3D around.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/77366292@N03/albums/72157715730152408

This was one of my favorites back in FS 2004 days. It was such a gorgeous machine and probably Milton Shupe's masterwork.

I would love to have this plane in MSFS (and better still, all of Milton's great aircraft)!

[fppilot 4,389]

22 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

My question is, are people still flying these must have  aircraft, or after the first few weeks and the novelty has worn off, are they sitting in the hard drive hangar in the sky, collecting dust?  Just curious. 

I believe Bob has a great point!

I have so far only purchased three payware aircraft for MSFS 2020 so not much to ride on as far as usage.  I have logged 49.2 hours in the SWS Kodiak 100, just 9.3 hours in the Carenado Mooney, and a scant 2.9 hours in the 337 Skymaster.  Most of my 437.6 logged hours in MSFS have been in the Default Baron and in the Robert Young modified Turbo Bonanza, which I fondly refer to as my RYTB.  I have logged a respectable number of hours in the default DA62, the Caravan, the default 172s.  

Here are my log numbers for payware aircraft for FSX, which I still fly on occasion.  Of note is that I have logged nearly seven times as many hours in the top eight in my list as I have logged in the other fourteen. (Note: I did not snag the A2A 182 until 2019 and it quickly became my go to for $100 Hamburger flights. So it collects little dust despite the appearance.)

Milviz	B55/E55	Beech Baron	503.7
Realair	B60T	Turbine Duke v2 (TDv2)	457.9
MIlViz	C310	Cessna 310 Redux	452.3
Carenado	C90T	Beech King Air	380.2
HondaJet	HA-420	Hondajet	364.5
Carenado	C210	Cessna Centurion	178.6
Carenado	C208	Cessna Grand Caravan	164.0
Carenado	C337	Cessna Skymaster	121.8	2623.0
Carenado	A36	Beech Bonanza	91.6
A2A	C182	Cessna Skylane	53.0
Carenado	PA46T	Malibu Jet Prop	47.4
Carenado	DA62	Diamond DA62	41.1
Carenado	B58	Beech Baron	36.3
Carenado	C340	Cessna 340	26.7
Alabeo	C421	Cessna Golden Eagle	18.2
Realair	B60	Piston Duke v2	17.8
Carenado	C90GTX	Beech King Air	15.3
Carenado	F406	Caravan II	14.5
Carenado	C208	Cessna Super Cargomaster	14.0
Alabeo	M20R	Mooney Ovation	9.4
A2A	PA24	Piper Comanche	3.6
Realair	RG550	Lancair Legacy	3.5	392.4

 

Edited April 2, 2022 by fppilot

[somiller 694]

5 hours ago, Steve Dra said:

Was hoping someone would see the irony in this pic about the last MD taxiing past the gaggle of Boeings (and an Airbus or 2).  As a passenger, this was a very comfortable and quiet plane, esp the MD90 if you were sitting in business class!

When I made weekly trips out of KATL, I hoped we'd take the runway that let us taxi past the Delta maintenance center....always cool to see all the aircraft there.  And finally in MSFS, the elevation in that area is correct!

The maintenance area sits in a little gully and you see the tails at eye level when you taxi past....its only taken 20 years of simming to finally see this modeled correctly. 🙂 

 

Ah, yes I guess there were a few Airbus aircraft in that lineup...looks like 5 of em.

[eslader 1,791]

On 4/2/2022 at 6:06 AM, vin747 said:

it ruins the immersion flying these planes in 2022 into a modern day airport.. 

Outfits like Buffalo Airways makes immersion easy no matter what you fly. Those guys are still flying DC-3's and C-46's. They just bought their first 737 - before that their most modern airplanes were their Electras. 

With the exception of museum-only relics like Concorde, the SR-71, or the Wright Flyer, just about anything you can think of is still being flown today, somewhere.

 

Edited April 3, 2022 by eslader

[Bobsk8 12,794]

45 minutes ago, eslader said:

Outfits like Buffalo Airways makes immersion easy no matter what you fly. Those guys are still flying DC-3's and C-46's. They just bought their first 737 - before that their most modern airplanes were their Electras. 

With the exception of museum-only relics like Concorde, the SR-71, or the Wright Flyer, just about anything you can think of is still being flown today, somewhere.

 

https://buffaloairways.com/

 

 

Edited April 3, 2022 by Bobsk8

[stewartforgie 44]

I'm still flying the AH Spitfire Mk.I and loving it! I prefer it over the Mk.IX, But it's a close call between the two.