I generally "only" fly one or two addons within a TYPE of aircraft, but many addons in total...

...across 3 different flight sims.

I can't imagine limiting myself to just one.

Edited April 16, 20251 yr by UrgentSiesta

I fly airliners sometimes, but mostly into GA and helicopters. At any given time I am rotating between 3-4 aircraft, usually vastly different. 

Not too surprised. The PMDG forum is full of people who only fly Boeings. I’ve no doubt there are plenty of people who only fly ‘buses.

This is the reality of ‘hardcore’ simming…and the Navigraph survey is targeted at this group. They’re the ones spending regular amounts of money on peripherals and services.

I fly 10 or more different aircraft. Mostly GA.

31 minutes ago, DD_Arthur said:

Not too surprised. The PMDG forum is full of people who only fly Boeings. I’ve no doubt there are plenty of people who only fly ‘buses.

This is the reality of ‘hardcore’ simming…and the Navigraph survey is targeted at this group. They’re the ones spending regular amounts of money on peripherals and services.

Yes absolutely.  Users who would even consider purchasing navigraph are almost always airliner users.  So the survey is very biased towards that type of simmer.  Only recently have we started to be able to fly navigraph equipped GA planes (like in MSFS 20/24/XP) with the advent of WorkingTitle making awesome in-panel chart mods and devs like TDS adding Navgiraph charts/data support for MSFS and XP.  At any rate, it is also my opinion that people who would subscribe to NG would also purchase newer PC hardware, and external hardware for their addic.... hobby 😉 

Of course the data is nice to have, with almost 15k users finishing the survey - that's pretty amazing!

As for the topic at hand... I fly ALL sorts of GA, I occasionally dabble in airliners like the PMDG or the recent Aerosoft CRJ v2.  I have downloaded the FBW A380 and A320 as well... hardly fly them though.  I voted don't tell my wife LOL!

I have four main aircraft (Fenix, iFly 737MAX, PMDG 777, iniBuilds A350) I fly most of the time, plus about 5 aircraft I fly every once in a while when I'm in the mood or when it's realistic for the route I fly (PMDG 737, A330, CRJ, E-Jets, A300).
But then again it's a question of money and time. I can sim every evening, others maybe only 4 or 5 times a month. Then of course having just one or two go-to aircraft makes much more sense and is much less "boring".

I fly everything as longs as it made to my minimalistic standards LOL Jets, helicopters, piston, turbines.. Modern or vintage - anything goes! 

HI,

I'm in that one aircraft group, PMDG 738 and the zibo mod 738 depending on what base sim I'm using. I'll usually do testing in the Cessna, but that's about it.

Edited April 16, 20251 yr by Mike_CFII_MEL

Mostly Airbus, 330 and Fenix, but quite often I find myself flying the PC-12 or PC-24 because I like the Honeywell avionics. The Vision Jet is nice too. And I like to fly the 172 and the Milviz Spitfire. Sometimes I fly Helis but I am not able to land on anything smaller than a soccer field.

Good thread, it hits on my biggest frustration in sim.  I can either:

1)  fly one thing and fly it perfectly, *or*
2) fly many aircraft not perfectly

...I can't seem to do both #1 and #2!  I just don't have time.   I envy those of you who have the inner fortitude to do either one of them (or both!).  Flying many aircraft, I like doing that -- but not flying them well -- I don't like that.

I pretty much only fly via my airline in OnAir.
Gives me purpose and storylines for every flight.

Trying to grow the cargo business, I recently discovered that there's money to be made transporting construction materials and equipment from Australia to the myriad of Pacific Islands that need it badly. Short airfields, long endurance - pretty much perfect for the DC-6. Been a lot of fun trying to figure out how to plan the flights and stretching the capabilities of the plane to its limits. 

That's the big fun for me in the sim - yes the flying is great. But also hey where do we get fuel? Where do we stop along the way where crews can get rest overnight? How do we make sure we can actually maximise cargo while managing to take off from 4000ft strips.  

All that to say, lately it's been all DC-6 basically. In my fleet I also have an A320, two E170s and a Longitude for charter flights. As well as a temporarily leased 727 for cargo as well on some profitable runs out of Hong Kong. 

Basically all I fly these days - hop around between all of those to help out when needed. Takes usually a day of real time to travel to those planes if I want to switch, so usually I just stick with one adventure at a time.

 

Edited April 16, 20251 yr by Georgleboui

If I just think about 2024, there only 4 aircraft I fly at all: A2A Comanche; Cows DA42, Blacksquare Duke, Fenix A320. Most of my time is in the Duke as I fly more GA and the Comanche is just too slow, so it rarely gets out of the hanger. I often choose between the Duke or the DA42 based on what avionics package I want to use. When I do want to fly an airliner is it is invariably the Fenix. When PMDG releases the 777 it will end up in the mix, but not flown a lot because I rarely do long-haul flights, just a few times a year. I used to fly the PMDG 737 - and from 2011 to 2015 that is about the only aircraft I used, except for the odd excursion in an A2A aircraft -but I am kind of tired of that aircraft and do not see myself using it any longer; to me the Fenix is much better modeled than the PMDG and so for narrow body aircraft this is the one.

Perhaps similar to others that fly a limited fleet, I enjoy really learning an aircraft, both in the sim and the real world, and that takes a long time; I do not tire or become board with them, but, as you can see from the selection, I focus on the ones with good system depth and where the developer has really paid attention to fidelity. I was so hoping the A350 would be at that high fidelity level but it is not, and so I will continue with the triple. 

37 minutes ago, Mace said:

Good thread, it hits on my biggest frustration in sim.  I can either:

1)  fly one thing and fly it perfectly, *or*
2) fly many aircraft not perfectly

...I can't seem to do both #1 and #2!  I just don't have time.   I envy those of you who have the inner fortitude to do either one of them (or both!).  Flying many aircraft, I like doing that -- but not flying them well -- I don't like that.

Yep, sums up my own simming experience...🙃

I only fly three aircraft in 2024..  BSQ A36, TBM850, and SWS RV14A.  I would rather get good at flying one aircraft, than fumbling around in a bunch of airplanes.. 🙂

As in real life there are only a limited number of aircraft you can be "type rated" in the sim at any one time if you like complex aircraft and follow real world procedures.  I like the PMDG 737-800 a lot because it is the aircraft I regularly fly in as pax  but I also fly the airbuses (there are so many of them in the sim.) However, after doing so for some time and then going back to the 737-800, it can all seem very strange at first.  I don't fly GA aircraft very often but when I do so there is always a steep re-learning curve.

Bruce