Welcome back to flight simming! In comparison to FSX and earlier, scenery add-ons are a lot less necessary for the sim to look nice. It's still nice to get hand-crafted airports on the market place for areas where you fly regularly. Also take a look at flightsim.to, there are lots of good add-ons available for free.

The default aircraft are nicely modelled, the quality of their flight models and system depth vary a lot though. The Garmin glass cockpit avionics are amazing, more so considering they're default instruments. Since the last sim update they're pretty much true to life.

Notable aircraft include the Cessna Citation CJ4 (standard edition) and Longitude (Premium edition), the Airbus A310, and while the debate in the sim community about whether or not they count as "study level" will never end, they're better than many mid-range add-on aircraft.

Keep in mind that free mods for default aircraft are a thing: they improve the flight dynamics where necessary, so that you can fly the aircraft by the numbers, and often they add a lot to the system depth that can be rather shallow for the defaults. One notable mod is the JPlogistics mod for the C152. It simulates the whole electric system including circuit breakers and a lot more, including spark plug fouling, so you have to stick to real-world procedures for leaning the mixture.

Anyway, let us know what type of aircraft / style of flying you like, and I'm sure you'll get good recommendations here.

Edited March 3, 20233 yr by pstrub

15 hours ago, DAD said:

Vanilla MSFS and FBW are a great choice. Nothing else needed. Maybe a nice Arlanda scenery and that’s all. Check the FBW website for documentation and videos to help you get started. Enjoy and welcome back. There couldn’t be a better time than now

Arlanda is a custom airport anyway (Not sure if that is version dependant).

Think ORBX have done it as well though .. ..

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