Which do you like better? Yes, you!

 

I like both but prefer Airliners. Basically I am a virtual Airliner pilot that owns a TBM and Hondjet. Many career ailriner pilots have their own private plane. Fly airliners for money and GA for fun on days off.

I think most prefer airliners (I would guess like 80% prefer airliners).  My guess is educated based off popularity of repaints, navigraph surveys and various developer tidbits I hear.

I love GA because you can go almost anywhere, you'll fly to airports you'd never be able to get a larger jet into (although some smaller bizjets are surprisingly capable - and I fly those too!)

Just to clarify I consider GA anything (in the US at least) that could file under part 91.  So that's a quite a few bizjets as well as basically anything smaller like king airs, TBM, PC12, piston singles/twins etc.  I do like the 737 BBJ as well.

Interesting take on his part.

In any case, flying is both fun and rewarding, whether in GA, airlines, or the military.

Actually, we all program to a degree and manage systems while flying.

Regardless of whether we are in a glider or an airplane, we "fly pretty much every second." If he's referring to actual hand-flying, of course, there are some differences.

Is he serious? Only GA has a nice view? Only GA can be completely different? Only GA has views of mountains, coastlines, and small airstrips in the middle of nowhere? How about landing on ice at the North or South Pole? How about landing on a desert on sand runways? How about on military airstrips in the middle of nowhere?

Only GA has aircraft on floats?

Airlines have "the same spreadsheet"? I guess he's referring to a master flight plan. Does he understand that each flight plan is different and not the same?

Does he know that there are actual airplanes authorized to push back under their own power?

I suppose his bubble is quite tiny.

Yea, I fly both, and tend to go through phases of flying only airliners and then only GA, but I have noticed that the GA phase has become longer and longer as the years go by. I don't enjoy airline flying as much as I used to.

I'm GA Jets 100%.  C510, Vision Jet, Honda Jet, Learjet, Phenom, CJ4, Longitude, etc.

I have even done touch & goes in small strips in the Bahamas with my beloved c510.

Some of my GA Jets have modern avionics and gadgets like spoilers or reverse thrust.

They are easy on fps and lots of fun to hand fly.

I prefer GA about 90% of the time.  I spent most of my PPL days flying piston singles, so simulation allows me to re-experience those days and "some of the feeling" and wonder that went with it.

Flight simulation has allowed me to learn and appreciate modern flat panel avionics, GPS integration and far more advanced aircraft, such as high performance singles, turboprops, twins and business jets that I never had the opportunity to advance to in the RW.  Today I feel fairly comfortable in everything from a C152 to the Longitude.

TBF, it is a great feeling of accomplishment when I have spent the time to become well-versed in an airliner's characteristics and all of its systems and get it safely to my destination.  However, I prefer airliner flying in small doses, and look forward to the GA flights that take me back into challenging terrain and smaller airports.

I prefer very high fidelity addons, with a primary focus on physics fidelity. 

While I’m willing to do cold n dark for an airliner, it’s just not my thing - I don’t have much time to fly, so I’m generally looking for aircraft that are reasonably fast to start, and relatively simple to operate. Oh, and FAST!

All that tends to lead me more towards GA turboprops and biz jets, with a sprinkling of .mil to keep it interesting.

Oh, And helicopters, because the challenge is satisfying.

over the years in MSFS, that’s been a constantly moving target, even if airliners are included. 

So these days, my most flown addons tend to be the Longitude, FSR500, Turbine Duke, and Taogs H500C. I love the A2A Comanche, but it’s just a bit too slow for me usually.  Now that I just got the Aerostar, that’s getting time (really nice addon).

I will drag the PMDG 737 out, but I tend to do hot starts, load a flight plan and be on my merry way. And like @LRBS says above, I’ve had some really nice, extremely gas guzzling low altitude sight seeing flights in it😎

I mostly consider flying the tubeliners boring yet I daily fly the most boring plane of all - the HJET.  😎

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I conduct GA flights in airliners. The best of both worlds 

95% GA which is everything from the C172 to the C750. Occasionally the RJ or the F28. I did buy and try the 737-600 but didn't keep it. 

Maybe 70/30 GA vs airliners these days. Like others have said, I value my time more these days and don't want to be up all night getting an airliner started. One great thing about most piston, turboprop, and bizjet simulation is you can be up and running in 5 minutes or less.

That said I like to go into the big airline hubs and putt putt around behind bigger aircraft - something that would be both costly and intimidating IRL!

Edited April 18Apr 18 by Nandengo12

For me, it’s 100% General Aviation, specifically the flying club planes I can actually afford to fly in real life. I stick strictly to the C172, DR400, Cirrus, and PA28. I know it might seem strange since a simulator lets me fly anything, anywhere, but I prefer keeping it grounded in my reality. Call me eccentric if you want, but that’s how I love to (sim)fly.

Edited April 18Apr 18 by vbazillio

2 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

I conduct GA flights in airliners. The best of both worlds 

Hehe.

Same.here, I guess. I bought all of the airliner addons I fly, so obviously that means I'm flying them under Part 91, right? 😉

2 hours ago, Nandengo12 said:

......I value my time more these days and don't want to be up all night getting an airliner started. One great thing about most piston, turboprop, and bizjet simulation is you can be up and running in 5 minutes or less.

I start my GA airliner flights in READY TO TAXI mode. It then takes me no more than a few minutes to input my short low level flightplan, and all of the settings. Even if I were going to take longer flights, I would not bother trying to emulate every real world waypoint and airway. I would just select a suitable SID/STAR, and connect the dots as I see fit. It's so easy in a simulator when you do not have to worry about real world restrictions