I downloaded it plus the new Siai Marchetti paint scheme of the same flight school, and I have yet to fly it.  I have been flying the Lago Tornado and the Lago Falcon. 

I have noticed that great downloads come in waves.  There maybe nothing good for a while, then BAM!  All at once these great addons appear.  I might give it a go tonight.  But the C172 looks great in my hanger....

Do your self a favour. This is worth looking at.

Can I install this manually (cut & paste) or do I have to use the self installer?  I hate those things.

I couldnt get the cut and paste to work either and used the manual installer provided.  But this is one awesome a/c to fly with the sliders set to full and the auto coord turned off.  I also put the "Flight Dynamics?" in the 182 and get the same awesome effects and those wind sounds are great.   
Splash

IMHO I'm less than thrilled and I'm going to dump it.

I don't fly the C172 often enough to spend the time trying to figure this out.  I spent my first 10 minutes trying to tune the radio, which never worked.  (Nothing left of the decimal would tune).

The sound is nice but unless the flight mechanics are truly awesome it's not worth the trouble.

To be fair, I use the Friendly Panels (OK but not great) alternate panel as my default (which may have caused the problem with the radio tuning).  I don't want to be forced to go back to the default panel.

Please don't flame me - it's just my opinion.

You can't navigate without the radios. I'd like to hear more feedback. It may be my use of alternate panel.

OK I loaded it the trusting lazy mans way with default panel etc. Everything works so far. Most of my short flying 'career' was in a 172 so I'm really at home with this thing and only fly it to the local store in VC. Look and land! Navigation is for longhaul stuff and then I use something else. Regardless of all that, the thing,once again,flies nice and I especially like the sound effects. Yes,it really does sound like the wheels are going to fall off! Try landing on dirt!!  There is a video available at FSfreeware of a 172 final and landing ,check that out for sound etc

OK I went back to check out the sounds and had a problem exiting the program. I had done a previous flight in another aircraft and had a similar exit problem.
As much as I like this a/c it looks like there is a problem.
I have deleted it. Could a moderator flag this as there seem to be too many problems coming out.
This a/c is the last I have added I only have two other nondefault a/c in the file at the moment!

e-mail to Realair has gone.

Please would someone be nice enough to tell me where to find this bloody plane!  I searched avsim until I got sick of looking, even ran a search and it came up with nothing!

Thanks
Greg

  ; Check out the site as well.  www.realairsimulations.com/home.html for 182 paints and flight models.   
Splash

Sorry to say I don't seem to be able to post that e-mail
and Rob Young had a problem as well hence my effort on his behalf.
The gist is there is no explanation for the missing sounds,there are very few problems with over 6000 dls,some to do with Win98packercolinl and incorrect loading. Reinstall has fixed those. The manual install should be possible for experienced users. He appreciates the positive comments and apologises to those who had difficulties.
Thanks Rob Young at Realair for your response.

Cheers. We'll all enjoy this one!