For me it has to be to be the MG HJET.  Post your own bests but I luv this plane.

Cheers

sp

Edited February 22, 20233 yr by Sky_Pilot071

I love the Ini Builds A310. Great addition to the sim and at an unbeatable price 🙂

Man, too many good things happened last year to choose just one.  Hjet, Vision Jet, that insane dump of free aircraft on the anniversary (gotta say, I really like the Beaver). PMDG's 737, Leonardo's Maddog, The A310. Concorde. I know I'm forgetting some. Lot of good things happening on the hardware side too with continued new releases of controllers we'd have never seen before MSFS. 

 

 

737 for sure. Probably going to be my top pick for a long time.

Shout out to MSFS itself. Our sim is finally maturing a bit and the polish is beginning to show. No, it's not perfect. It never will be perfect, but boy have we come a long way from TA1 years back.

Edited February 22, 20233 yr by kiwikat

1.B FS Realistic

1.A Leonardo MD-82, lets hope they improve on the sounds (without sound pack ) and textures somewhere in the future.

Hopefully the MD-11 by TFDI this year.

Edited February 22, 20233 yr by jbdbow1970

For me it's MSFS itself as I only installed it for the first time last year!   For best addon - that's a hard call but I'll go for the SWS Kodiak.

Fenixsim A320 - obviously!

From Asobo, the Cabri is pretty neat.

From the freeware community, all the stuff made by @mamu82 - powerlines, marinas, gondolas - which made low flying even more delightful than it was.

From the payware community, the Milviz 310 is a solid product.

Edited February 22, 20233 yr by Dominique_K

Just Flight's Arrow III and Chicomick's freeware Duxford. And the sim itself, of course.

Australia World Update - they nailed it.

Jase

The AAU1 package.

Depending on how one interprets this question, a lot of things and too much to choose from :)

Overall sim wise, I'd say the big standout is the arrival of the first high fidelity jets in May'22 (PMDG 737, then Fenix A320) that put to rest all sorts of questions/speculation/doubts about the MSFS platform, some of which I had myself. The arrival of the much more complex and comprehensive atmospheric airflow simulation using CFD was another big one. AAU1 and the most realistic default avionics & biz-jets by far in any sim is a massive standout too, but that's technically 2023 I guess.

Specific 3rd party aircraft wise I'd go with the PMDG, Fenix, Milviz C310, iniBuilds A310 (for free!), & Kodiak in my list of top 5 birds.
 

Not 'a favorite thing' but in order of importance to yours truly:

1. Discovering a different pathway to sterling performance not requiring a hardware upgrade.  I have absolutely zero need to change hardware at this point in time and won't unless MS/A decides to amp up cloud resolution or other changes that substantially change demand necessitating an upgrade.
2. Picking up the awesome TM Boeing Edition Pendulum Yoke and TQ both of which really improve the experience for me.
3. Dabbling with Airbus for a first time and enjoying the FBW A320NX which continues to improve.
4. PMDG 738--great plane, very familiar with it in FSX/P3D so not new to me at all.

Here is my list, in no particular order:

The Fenix A320 and PMDG 737-700 and 600. 

The AAU1 update

The Got Friends Wilga

The Black Square Caravan addon

Here's to looking forward to what exciting things happen this year 🙂 

Hjet. No question about it!  And Hjet v2.0 is destined to the the best about 2023 unless 3.0 comes along, or the fabled Hjet 2600.

Hjet has ruined MSFS scenery for me, LOL!  Spending my cruise time at upper FL's and enjoying IMC approaches. 😜

Edited February 22, 20233 yr by fppilot