3 hours ago, sloppysmusic said:

Oh i splashed out 300 for p3d and another 250 for 747 and 777 series then tried get the u but they'd pulled it too quickly for me to buy. Only the older version up for sale. 

Really annoys me when devs says we get no orders. Me :take my money. Them : Crickets. 

I feel you there. Last week I took my pickup back to a body shop that painted the hood and front fenders about three years ago due to scratches and fading. Had headlights refurbished on my and wife’s car. Very satisfied with his work and recommended his business to a number of people. Decided last week the roof of my truck was looking bad so I went back and asked for an estimate and the reply was we won’t do it. We only do collision now . In other words if you don’t come in with a big insurance settlement in hand don’t come in breathing my air. 
Same bubba would probably yowl at the government for allowing an immigrant open a shop near by and start taking his business. 
Rant over and sorry for off topic but maybe similar in a way.

Edited January 20, 20251 yr by Patco Lch

My favourite: PMDG QOTSII (747-400). With FS2Crew. 

Only one heh ? oooh, that's a really hard choice...

There are so many I really enjoy flying in the sim, mostly they are not tubeliners though, and that's simply because I typically don't have the time to spend following all the procedures those types involve.

But let's see what we can narrow down from my current favs.

• Yes the Real Air Legacy is one of them, it has so much going for it, looks, performance, supports advanced hypoxia simulation, various damage effects and is so easy to get up in the air and push to it's limits, it's just a great high performance fun machine and in fact I'm working on it atm to improve the RXP GTN bezel button support like I did for the MilViz DHC2.

• The Milviz DHC2, for an older released aircraft I found it pretty good, although MilViz's packaging was a real mess, but I liked it so much I worked on the package and flight modeling, it's the type of aircraft that can go practically anywhere and land on water too. Plus it has a great song to accompany it

• Ant's Sierra - a simple plane with a bubble cockpit for great all round visibility, it includes all of Ant's usual features like maintenance requirements (with consequences if skipped), failures, rain on the canopy and a high level of configuration ability, although the plane does actually lack pitot heating meaning cold weather can be an issue, still... It's a smooth easy and fun to fly light sport with a reliable autopilot.

• A2A planes, I consider these the most advanced of the non-tubeliner type and can be very unforgiving without maintenance, including engine plug fouls, total engine failures and flaps breaking etc. The first aircraft I ever bought was the A2A C182 (for FSX) where in P3D I've now added oxygen so I can reach higher altitudes without hypoxia killing me and also fitted a nifty grey dash panel, but the most deadly of the A2A has been the P51 where a deep stall can take around 10,000 feet to recover from - very challenging to fly imho.

There are many many more great planes in my virtual hanger, but really atm my fav is the DHC2, I put a fair amount of work into getting it fixed and am just really enjoying the results.

Cheers

Edited January 20, 20251 yr by Rogen

I started with the Queen of the skys PMDG in FS9. and have had it ever since now in P3D. Along with the 777. 737 all variants 

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Edited January 20, 20251 yr by G-RFRY

I bought Prepar3D specifically to get MilViz's High Fidelity T-38C.

MilViz created that addon under contract for the USAF. And apparently it's so realistic that the USAF had them pull it from consumer sales shortly after it released!!

Custom external flight model, a la Majestic Q400, (and it will kill you if you're not paying attention, just like the real one), extensive failure modeling, deep systems with glass cockpit (it's the lead-in trainer for F-16s, et al.), it even re-create the IRL simulated dogfight and ground attack HUD modes (i.e., the T-38 has never been armed, not even with training munitions).

Now, all that said, I would have a REALLY hard time giving up the Civilian Mustang by A2A Sims. So hard that I might give up the T-38C since DCS World has so many Hi Fi modern Fast Jets.

I can't think of any other add-ons that are even close to "must have" for me, and I have a broad selection at this point.

Edited January 21, 20251 yr by UrgentSiesta

9 hours ago, IanHarrison said:

My favourite: PMDG QOTSII (747-400). With FS2Crew. 

My 2nd fave. It was the reason I got P3d in the first place. I had it and the version before it in FSX so I knew how good it was.

1 hour ago, Rogen said:

Only one heh ? oooh, that's a really hard choice.

You cheated but I'll let you off as you showed your working! The detail is what I'm after!

49 minutes ago, G-RFRY said:

I started with the Queen of the skys PMDG in FS9

A real list of PMDG's greatest hits here. Shame the band deleted their back catalogue. 

Real Air Duke v2...both regularly aspirated and the Turbine version.  Incredible airplanes.

1 minute ago, UrgentSiesta said:

I would have a REALLY hard time giving up the Civilian Mustang by A2A Sims

When I got p3dv5 first thing I did after adding the PMDG and RealAir birds was buy the T6 and Civ P51 again. Owned them in FSX where I had an 'infamous' tussle on their forums about rudder issues on the P51. They fixed it AND I got an apology. Class act A2A!

 

57 minutes ago, spilok said:

Real Air Duke v2...both regularly aspirated and the Turbine version

Have them both. Many great memories. The B60 I 'mastered' VOR navigation with and the Turbine showed me what happens at FL270 over central Florida in a thunderstorm cell when you push the engines too hard to climb above it. I was flying from KDAB to KATL and lost the first engine. Figured I would return to Daytona. After turning the 2nd failed and gliding down to KJAX was my only option. I also learned what prop feathering meant during that flight. I landed ok but I was genuinely stressed the whole way down. 

Choosing one is way too hard... Mostly because I like to fly airliners but I also very much enjoy flying low and slow and bush flying in small GA planes.  But if I had to choose just one, it would be the PMDG Queen of the Skies II (as much as I dislike PMDG right now).

8 hours ago, Rogen said:

• A2A planes, I consider these the most advanced of the non-tubeliner type and can be very unforgiving without maintenance, including engine plug fouls, total engine failures and flaps breaking etc. The first aircraft I ever bought was the A2A C182 (for FSX) where in P3D I've now added oxygen so I can reach higher altitudes without hypoxia killing me and also fitted a nifty grey dash panel, but the most deadly of the A2A has been the P51 where a deep stall can take around 10,000 feet to recover from - very challenging to fly imho.

 

There are many many more great planes in my virtual hanger, but really atm my fav is the DHC2, I put a fair amount of work into getting it fixed and am just really enjoying the results.

Cheers

If I had a second (non-airliner) choice, I would have chosen the A2A Cessna 182 or the Milviz DHC2 mostly thanks to all the work you did 🙂

Edited January 21, 20251 yr by Zylx