Ladies and Gents,

There are currently three Kitfox models available in the Marketplace, and I'd appreciate anyone's views and comparisons, please. The three models are by:

1)  Project Stratosphere.

2) //42

3) BT Studio

The Project Stratosphere one is currently on sale at a ludicrous £3.79 ( you can't even buy a pint for that ! ), and it has normal/bush tyre options too. Overall that's the one I'm favouring, but as I say, I'd like to hear the pros and cons of each model.

Thanks in advance. 👍

 

 

The answer to your question is 42

2 minutes ago, St Mawgan said:

The answer to your question is 42

I assume you mean //42 and not Douglas Adams, yes ?

I honestly wouldn't recommend any of them as good, enjoyable addon aircraft.

The BT Studio was a very early (Aug 2020) port from XP11 and not worth entertaining.

The //42, I just find a bit dull in terms of flat sound, unexciting FDE and a TON of bloatware that comes with it. It is really just a Trent Palmer fan package.

The P/Stratosphere feels the most convinving to me.  But it's hardly the best of any bunch.

 

Edited February 1, 20242 yr by JYW

2 hours ago, JYW said:

I honestly wouldn't recommend any of them as good, enjoyable addon aircraft.

The BT Studio was a very early (Aug 2020) port from XP11 and not worth entertaining.

The //42, I just find a bit dull in terms of flat sound, unexciting FDE and a TON of bloatware that comes with it. It is really just a Trent Palmer fan package.

The P/Stratosphere feels the most convinving to me.  But it's hardly the best of any bunch.

 

Thanks, Bill. Good information, and appreciated.

One calls it bloatware and fanpackage. I would call it best choice of the three offerings and coming with additional features and optional extras. The //42 was at least really tested and flown in sim by Trent and is according to his feedback close to the real thing as far as the sim allows. Regarding sound it is a Rotax and they do not sound that great in real life also 😉 If you have a bush scenery supporting it with stones and stuff the soft tundra tires will eat them and ground behaviour is really nice. 

I bought the Project Stratosphere version very early on and it is not very good. It was released in September 2022 The last update for it was in November 2022. Nothing since.

The //42 version is far superior. As for the 'bloatware', I have paired it down to one version (and not the Trent Palmer version), one livery and no scenery. Plus you can either buy the complete pack or just the base version. I bought it ages ago, it has had several updates including one to incorporate my beloved TDS GTNXi and I still fly it regularly. Love it. 

Thanks for all the responses, guys. I think it will be the //42 Kitfox. 🙂

Just bought the Stratoshere Kitfox Speedster Series 7.  I don't know if they made any changes to the aircraft as reviewed in earlier posts but a bunch of folks are flying it regularly in the MSFS Bush Flight group so it must have something going for it.  Too bad this company is running a poor excuse for a server - the download speed I'm seeing is about 1MHz/sec.  At the same time Cloudflare speed test is giving me 20Mb/s from their servers. 

I have //42 full pack and PS speedster.  The speedster is different than a regular kit fox, they are not the same, so they don't fly the same.  They are not as good at short field landing and take off but as the name implies they are a lot quicker than the standard FOX.

The //42 FOX2 base is the best if you just want one fox and your doing bush flying into unimproved fields.  The speedster is more for like Johnson Creek and other longer runway backcountry fields.  Freedom Fox is the one you want for flying that the Zlin Shock ultra does. Sandbars, unimproved fields etc.

Only one I have is the //42, but I can say that it is a great bush plane in the sim, one of the better flight models I've found for this class of aircraft (for a general light taildragger my favorite is the CAS J-3, but a J-3 is not a bush plane).  For context, (and sorry if this is controversial), I do not have a lot of respect for Trent and it frankly irked me a bit to contribute some royalties to him, but the reality is that the flight model is top-notch and I have no regrets.  You'll dig it; you can hang it on the prop and drop it onto sandbars like nothing else.