8 minutes ago, Egbert Drenth said:

Only one?
It will be the one I'm going to buy tomorrow at JustFlight... Go figure 😄

oh no, my wallet can't take anymore abuse! 😁

Edited Wednesday at 06:53 PM1 day by hangar

The starter of the thread himself said 1 aircraft any everyone including himself are listing Multiple Aircraft

When I returned to simming after a long layoff (now almost 2 years back, good grief!), I decided I was going to be extremely selective in the planes I purchased this time around. No more impulse purchases of pretty faces, only high quality models of planes that match my personal interests get considered these days. As a consequence, every plane I own gets flown regularly so this would be a really tough call.

That said, at heart I'm a turbo-charged, single engine piston guy. While twins beguile me, turbines tempt me, and I've recently even added a jet with glass (and I'm enjoying it! Don't tell anybody!), push come to shove I'd still revert back to who I am IRL. So...

If it's really the ONLY one I could have - The BS Turbo-normalized Bonanza would be it.

Piston guy that I am, it was still tough not to say the BS TBM 850. As Ryan notes earlier, it's such a great "sweet spot" airplane - fast and with an avionics setup that just works for me - but I'd miss the sound of my piston engines too much!

Side note: Lost my "data" D: drive late yesterday - about 1.5 TB of "stuff". So I get the "what if you could only have NO planes" scenario. No simming for me until the new SSD arrives and I get things restored. Critical stuff (but not everything!) is backed up in the cloud, but this is still going to be a pain as pretty much my whole sim environment was on it. I think the computer deities are trying to tell me something. 3 weeks ago one of my 16GB RAM sticks failed.

Scott

22 minutes ago, tttocs said:

When I returned to simming after a long layoff (now almost 2 years back, good grief!), I decided I was going to be extremely selective in the planes I purchased this time around. No more impulse purchases of pretty faces, only high quality models of planes that match my personal interests get considered these days. As a consequence, every plane I own gets flown regularly so this would be a really tough call.

That said, at heart I'm a turbo-charged, single engine piston guy. While twins beguile me, turbines tempt me, and I've recently even added a jet with glass (and I'm enjoying it! Don't tell anybody!), push come to shove I'd still revert back to who I am IRL. So...

If it's really the ONLY one I could have - The BS Turbo-normalized Bonanza would be it.

Piston guy that I am, it was still tough not to say the BS TBM 850. As Ryan notes earlier, it's such a great "sweet spot" airplane - fast and with an avionics setup that just works for me - but I'd miss the sound of my piston engines too much!

Side note: Lost my "data" D: drive late yesterday - about 1.5 TB of "stuff". So I get the "what if you could only have NO planes" scenario. No simming for me until the new SSD arrives and I get things restored. Critical stuff (but not everything!) is backed up in the cloud, but this is still going to be a pain as pretty much my whole sim environment was on it. I think the computer deities are trying to tell me something. 3 weeks ago one of my 16GB RAM sticks failed.

Scott

Might as well commit to a second mortgage and buy a whole new PC LOL!

52 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

Might as well commit to a second mortgage and buy a whole new PC LOL!

I think I'll coin a new phrase:

Too many hobbies, not enough equity! 🤣

Scott

1 hour ago, jason74 said:

The starter of the thread himself said 1 aircraft any everyone including himself are listing Multiple Aircraft

A. Did you read the entire lede…? No, obviously not.

B. What’s your “Just One”?

Animated gifs tend to become quite annoying quickly so I’ve deleted it now, but imagine the Gorgon from Highlander delivering the infamous line “THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE” and. You’ll get the picture.

Mind you probably no more annoying than the video of the Russian guy trying to sell me an aeroplane every time I visit here.

Edited Wednesday at 09:14 PM1 day by jon b

3 hours ago, UrgentSiesta said:

Well, its kinda like picking your favorite child 😁

like for your girl friends, 1 for each category.😄

1 hour ago, tttocs said:

I think I'll coin a new phrase:

Too many hobbies, not enough equity! 🤣

Scott

I like this, it really made me smile 😉

Miltech Skyraider

4 hours ago, jon b said:

Animated gifs tend to become quite annoying quickly so I’ve deleted it now, but imagine the Gorgon from Highlander delivering the infamous line “THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE” and. You’ll get the picture.

Mind you probably no more annoying than the video of the Russian guy trying to sell me an aeroplane every time I visit here.

I thought it was kinda funny 😁

I picked the 737-700 as my favorite-of-favorites because it just ticks so many boxes. Small enough to operate from so many airports (particularly as a lightly loaded BBJ1), more than fast enough to get where ever you wanna go in reasonable time, up to 6,000 nm range (who has that kind of free time, anyway…? 😂), and complicated enough that it’s unlikely to ever bore me, or get into a situation that it cant handle.

And it might be surprising, but it’s actually pretty good at low n slow sight seeing (like the P-8 Poseidons are known to do 😎). Hang the flaps out and it’s even slower and lower - we’re not paying for gas!

One of the main reasons, though, is that it’s just so well documented. If I have a question, chances are the answer is readily available. That’s not the case with sooo many addons, even the Hi Fi ones.

It’s a pretty straightforward decision I guess, and I’m just thankful I’ll never have to make the choice for real. 😁🤙

1 hour ago, 0stones0 said:

Miltech Skyraider

Now THAT’S one I’d not expected to see!

It’d probably be fun for aircraft carrier ops!

9 hours ago, Egbert Drenth said:

Only one?
It will be the one I'm going to buy tomorrow at JustFlight... Go figure 😄

F 70/100

FSS B727, with classic nav! Flying Iron Spit for R&R!.

Simples... PMDG 737-800

Edited 22 hours ago22 hr by Rocky_53