Hi Omag

I guess it depends on what you are interested in. My main interest is military aviation. I took the view that flightsim was (by a small margin over this site) the best place for military downloads. I have first class membership - so no delays! 

As you say, avsim is a good site also, although it tends to have more of a civil aviation bias.

Sim-outhouse is a site that I like. Not a huge number of downloads there, and a WW2 bias. But I think that the forum is second only to the ones here.

Cheers Paul

I find that either Simviation, Avsim, or Flightsim usually have what I want

I rarely download from other sites

I only visit other sites for stuff I can't get here at SimV. Unfortunately, although this is one of the biggest sites of its kind, many freeware authors still seem unaware of its existence. The first place they think of to upload their work is either Flightsim.com or Avsim. In my first year as CFS Editor I spent much of my time checking out every freeware site I could find for new files. Then testing them before mailing the authors to make them aware of our site & asking permission to post their files. Many of these became good friends & from that time onwards they uploaded their files here first.

Trends change & many developers now prefer to post their files either on their own site or at one location. I can understand this & respect their wishes as it enables them to have some sort of control over updates etc & also support their stuff properly.

One big difference I have noticed between SimV & other big sites is that the majority of files posted here are tested before being posted. Although new talent is always encouraged not every file uploaded here is necessarily posted.

PS. This has always been Pete's policy & the reason behind his success. It's also the reason I have remained loyal to SimV since I found it almost 5 years ago.