USA and Canada recommended airports

[Cpt_Piett 4,652]

Hi all,

(or should I say Captains,)

Been flying mostly in Europe until now. With the landslide of quality airliner addons I'm looking into expanding my territory, so to speak. The only airports I have in North America so far is KDEN Denver and CYVR Vancouver. There's quite a few MSFS enhanced airports, both from the original release and from WU2, so I'd like opinions on these vs. available freeware/payware addons. 

What I've been looking at so far: 

MSFS enhanced airports: KJFK, KORD, KATL, KMCO, KDFW, KTEX, KSEZ, KLAX, KSFO, KSEA 

(got this list from the excellent map over at https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1KUg5jwyT_9k2A9n5IZ99UChlhfVUfO5S&hl=en_US&ll=54.378273363495104%2C3.2224970408166698&z=6)

Payware airports: 

• KATL Atlanta Int'l by Imagesim
• KORD Chicago O'Hare Int'l by FSDreamTeam
• CYYZ Toronto Pearson Int'l by FlyTampa
• KSAN San Diego Int'l by LatinVFR
• KMIA Miami Int'l by LatinVFR
• KRNT Renton by Drzewiecki Design

Edited May 17, 2022 by Cpt_Piett

[CFIJose 5,485]

YES for everything above, except for KATL.The ASOBO version is excellent.

KEYW by FSDreamteam.

KDEN by Flighbeam.

KLAS by FlyTampa

KMYR by Vertialsim.

There are a lot more, but I'll let others make suggestions.

[dean01c 21]

KMIA by LFVR

KBOS and KLAS by Flytampa would be my recommendations 

[Tim-HH 572]

KMDW and KDCA from Drzewiecki Design are also excellent.

[40track 80]

KORD

[qqwertz 782]

For Canada: https://www.fsimstudios.com/

[Cpt_Piett 4,652]

What about CYYZ Toronto Pearson Int'l by FlyTampa? CYYZ-KORD seems like a great short hop.

[JBDB-MD80 1,473]

KIAD - Washington Dulles - Flightbeam

KPDX - Portland International - Flightbeam.

 

[Shack95 2,658]

KLAS FlyTampa (no doubt in my personal top 10)

KBOS FlyTampa

KDCA Drzewiecki

[Cpt_Piett 4,652]

Thanks for all suggestions so far! I made another list: 

USA:

• KMDW Chicago Midway - Drzewiecki Design
• KDCA Washington National - Drzewiecki Design
• KRNT Renton - Drzewiecki Design
• KDEN Denver Intl - Flightbeam
• KIAD Washington Dulles Intl - Flightbeam
• KPDX Portland Intl - Flightbeam
• KLAS Las Vegas Intl - FlyTampa
• KBOS Boston Intl - FlyTampa
• KMIA - Miami Intl - LatinVFR
• KSAN San Diego Int'l by LatinVFR
• KORD Chicago O'Hare Int'l - FSDreamTeam
• KCLT Charlotte Douglas - FSDreamTeam
• KMYR Myrtle Beach - Verticalsim
• KLGA La Guardia - FeelThere

Canada:

• Vancouver Intl - FSimStudios
• CYYZ Toronto Pearson Int'l - FlyTampa 

Didn't include KEYW and CYTZ as I'm not sure if they are approved for 737/320 operations. 

Edited May 17, 2022 by Cpt_Piett

[Malaromane 422]

CYTZ is a great airport but it is not approved for jet operations. It serves mainly Q400 and GA traffic.

[CFIJose 5,485]

Check these out:

FSDT KCLT

FAS KEWR

Feelthere KLGA

RWS KSTL

PacSim KCLE

Edited May 17, 2022 by DJJose

[fakeflyer737 992]

Don’t buy YYZ from Reg Designs (terrible performance). Also, don’t buy ATL from ImagineSim. 

[Cpt_Piett 4,652]

31 minutes ago, DJJose said:

Check these out:

FSDT KCLT

FAS KEWR

Feelthere KLGA

RWS KSTL

PacSim KCLE

Added KLGA and KCLT to the “wishlist”. KLGA seems a bit sub-par, and I’m not sure about the quality of the rest.

[ryanbatc 12,857]

Highly recommend any airport by Windhover - all freeware of course.  Lately he's done some nice smaller or regional airports - that would easily handle the 737

https://flightsim.to/profile/Windhover/uploads

Also same for BullfrogSim - regional airports mostly in the western part of the USA - very very nice freeware here

https://flightsim.to/profile/BullfrogSim/uploads

Freeware DTW Detroit

https://flightsim.to/file/25649/kdtw-detroit-metro-wayne-dev-0-1

Freeware San Jose SJC

https://flightsim.to/file/5979/norman-y-mineta-san-jose-international-airport-ksjc

Edited May 17, 2022 by ryanbatc