March 8Mar 8 Man this sim is an abundance of goodness. Trying to decide my next airplane add-on, and it is not easy. I guess the right answer is buy them all, but right now if you had to buy just one… Black Square Starship ToLiss A340 (when available) TFDi MD-11 iniBuild A300-600R PMDG 737 iFly 737 Max I have the Fenix A320, A350 and 777F and enjoy them all. A big fan of BS products, and the Starship is pretty unique, but that MD-11 has a special place in my heart (late dad worked for Douglas), but I really like Airbus. Darn. Maybe easier to narrow it down to 2. Edited March 8Mar 8 by RobJC 7950X3D | RTX 4090 | 96GB DDR5 | 4K G-Sync | Win11 Pro
March 8Mar 8 TFDI MD-11 Edited March 8Mar 8 by pete_auau I7-8700k,Corsair h1101 cooler ,Asus Strix Gaming Intel Z370 S11 motherboard, Corsair 32gb ramDD4,, gtx 1080ti Card, RM850 power supply Peter kelberg
March 8Mar 8 BS Starship. Such a super well-done sim aircraft that you just don't see much. AMD Ryzen 9900X3D & ASUS X870E Gaming Plus MB, w/64 Gb GSkill DDR5 RAM, PNY RTX 5090 GPU, lots of SSD's and M.2 drives, HAVN Case, Virpil VPC Panels 2 and 3, Virpil Constellation Alpha Stick, Virpil Rotor TCS Plus w/ Hawk-60 Collective grip, TM TCA Yoke Boeing Edition, TM HOTAS A-10 and F/A-18 Sticks and TM TPR Rudder pedals. Currently on Win11
March 8Mar 8 4 minutes ago, RobJC said: Man this sim is an abundance of goodness. Trying to decide my next airplane add-on, and it is not easy. I guess the right answer is buy them all, but right now if you had to buy just one… Black Square Starship ToLiss A340 (when available) TFDi MD-11 iniBuild A300-600R PMDG 737 iFly 737 Max I have the Fenix A320, A350 and 777F and enjoy them all. A big fan of BS products, and the Starship is pretty unique, but that MD-11 has a special place in my heart (late dad worked for Douglas), but I really like Airbus. Darn. Maybe easier to narrow it down to 2. Personally, I haven't gotten the MD-11 because it feels a bit "too soon." I really enjoy the A300. Rustic feel with modern features. I'm sure the MD-11 is cool, but the A300 is lots of fun imo. BS planes are very good, the thing i enjoy most about them are the engine visualizations. So many to choose from! AMD 9950X3D | 64 GB RAM | RTX 5090 FMR: 747 FO, 757/767 CAPT, 737 Check Airman Current 777 CAPT
March 8Mar 8 Depends. Are you looking for. All the planes you own are pretty recent . You sure you want to go old school ? The 300 is another airbus, older but still similar. MD11 is really old school 737. You already own the 777 and its very similar but older. Stay the course and wait for the 340 or go old and get the MD11 Ron MSFS 2024 -Too many airplanes to name. Too many airports to name.
March 8Mar 8 Rob, if those six planes were available for the public to climb in and explore at an airport open house, which one would I visit? Never mind how realistic they fly and so forth, which one is a plane I love most in real life? That's the one I will always choose to fly in the sim. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
March 8Mar 8 I like the A300, but go for the Compatible one. And if you wish, go then for the upgrade to Premium. I like it a lot, it's way different to your everyday A320. The MD-11 is a good option too. Edited March 8Mar 8 by Luis Hernandez Best regards,Luis Hernández Main rig: self built, AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D (with SMT off and CO -50 mV), 2x16 GB DDR4-3200 RAM, Nvidia RTX 5060Ti 16GB, 256 GB M.2 SSD (OS+apps) + 2x1 TB SATA III SSD (sims) + 1 TB 7200 rpm HDD (storage), ID-Cooling SE-224-XTS air cooler, Viewsonic VX2458-MHD 1920x1080@120-144 Hz (G-sync compatible), Windows 11. Running P3D v5.4 (with v4.5 scenery objects as an additional library, just in case), FSX-SE, MSFS2020, MSFS2024 and even FS9! Lossless Scaling for all my sims. What a godsend...Mobile rig: ASUS Zenbook UM425QA (AMD Ryzen 7 5800H APU @3.2 GHz and boost disabled, 1 TB M.2 SSD, 16 GB RAM, Windows 11 Pro). Running FS9 there .VKB Gladiator NXT Premium Left + GNX THQ as primary controllers. Xbox Series X|S wireless controller as standby/mobile.
March 8Mar 8 22 minutes ago, Fielder said: Rob, if those six planes were available for the public to climb in and explore at an airport open house, which one would I visit? Never mind how realistic they fly and so forth, which one is a plane I love most in real life? That's the one I will always choose to fly in the sim. While I wouldn't go quite so far as to say, "Never mind how realistic they fly...", because I can never factor that out, I otherwise agree. My north star for choosing airplanes given a choice between solidly modeled planes is always - what would I most like to fly IRL. Given @RobJC's list, it would be an easy choice for me. Starship! But then, I'm obviously not a tube guy. Scott
March 8Mar 8 7 minutes ago, tttocs said: While I wouldn't go quite so far as to say, "Never mind how realistic they fly...", because I can never factor that out, I otherwise agree. My north star for choosing airplanes given a choice between solidly modeled planes is always - what would I most like to fly IRL. Given @RobJC's list, it would be an easy choice for me. Starship! But then, I'm obviously not a tube guy. Scott @RobJC Ditto! It's a reasonably fast aircraft as far as turboprops go. And the service ceiling is FL410 which is crazy high for that type of plane. But you'll find the best speeds in the mid 20s or so...around 335 ktas I think? There is some early magenta navigation possible with the "FMS" or the Omega system hehe. Or your classic "fly the needles.". There also a backup GNS430 waaay in the lower console that I never really used. | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
March 8Mar 8 If you enjoy different technology: Starship! Guenter Steiner -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Betatester for: A2A, LORBY, FSR-Pillow Tester --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
March 8Mar 8 I do not buy a wide range of aircraft. I have been flying the PMDG aircraft (and very little else) for years. However, the upcoming JustFlight Fokker 70/100 package is potentially on my shopping list. Possibly another option to consider for you, Rob? Christopher Low AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU / 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM / 12GB Nvidia RTX 4070 Super GPU / Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7 / 1+2TB Samsung Evo Plus M2 Nvme UK2000 Beta Tester
March 8Mar 8 Its very subjective everyone will recommend a different plane watch some YouTube reviews of the planes YOU want then make a decision Edited March 8Mar 8 by jason74 Jason Richards
March 8Mar 8 5 hours ago, RobJC said: Man this sim is an abundance of goodness. Trying to decide my next airplane add-on, and it is not easy. I guess the right answer is buy them all, but right now if you had to buy just one… Black Square Starship ToLiss A340 (when available) TFDi MD-11 iniBuild A300-600R PMDG 737 iFly 737 Max I have the Fenix A320, A350 and 777F and enjoy them all. A big fan of BS products, and the Starship is pretty unique, but that MD-11 has a special place in my heart (late dad worked for Douglas), but I really like Airbus. Darn. Maybe easier to narrow it down to 2. Well, my advice is always to go for whatever is MOST different from what you already have. So that means my vote here is for the Starship. And other than having wings and a pair of turboprops, it’s significantly different from just about anything else available for the sim. my dad was a Boeing Captain, so that keeps me mainly a Boeing flyer, so that’s a fine reason for you to go for the MD. AFTER the Starship 😉 p.s.: if you really wanna step out, pick up the Taogs OH-6 😎
March 8Mar 8 Usually my own question is "which aircraft will teach me something different", that obviously eliminate a number of Boeing and Airbus, and I often end-up with the GA option, so Starship is my answer, you will certainly learn something from that plane! If you want to stick to tubes, then the TFDi MD11 is your answer unless you prefer real old school, wait for the A300 from JustFlight, you won't be disappointed. Bernard CPU = 12900K / GPU = Nvidia 3090 VRAM 24 GB / RAM = 64 GB / SSD = 2 TB 980 PRO PCle 4.0 NVMe™ M.2,
March 8Mar 8 12 minutes ago, Bernard Ducret said: Usually my own question is which plane would I most likely buy and fly in real life. And that, sure as hell, wouldn't be some jalopy rust bucket, which addon developers seem to be putting out by the megatons. I definitely don't enjoy pulling this, yanking that, cranking this. I personally am holding out for a super longrange business jet. But, I think I'll have more luck waiting for the Yeti to show up at my door, holding in one hand a basket full of 4-leaf clovers and in the other an invitation for a 24-hour all expenses paid date with the current Miss World.
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