According to my previous poll most of the people here liked airliners the most, so here is an extended question. My favourite is Boeing BTW (737).

I'm with X; I don'really care for big iron in FS, but if I had to pick I'd say Boeing.

I like the Boeing 747 (good stunt plane), but I love the BIG Antonovs. They are great stunt planes

Ozzy 8)

If you're talking about FS airlieners it depends...for me it all comes down to the quality of the plane/cockpit and its handling abilities of course
Even though I'm a  die-hard b737 fan, I'd appreciate a genuine crafted Airbus or a prop, for that matter if the 737model was poor.

And the planes (airliners) must have a fully working FMC  and EFIS etc, not just the GPS...still can't figure out why FS insists on excluding FMC's on the default Boeings. I mean MS can just buy a published version of the FMC program and insert in those Boeings in the simulator ??? 

So basically, I really can't give you a definite answer, but PMDG's 737 is quite up there on my fave list 

I like the A320, small and nice to fly. Of course, the big 747s, 757s, 767s, and 777s are nice to fly too. I've also been playing around a lot with the Bombardier CRJ200. You put de Havilland on your list but it should be Bombardier. de Havilland (Canada) was bought out Bombardier Areospace. de Havilland still operates under its original name at Downsview Park in Toronto. I believe they are also the third largest Western aircraft manufacturer, most profit comming from the Dash-8 turboprop airliner, Learjet, CRJ200, and DHC-6 twin turboprop bush plane. They also invented the Snowmobile ("Ski-doo", their first product) and the Jetski ("Sea-doo") and they manufacture Amtrak's famous Accela electric train.

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see, we're getting somewhere...Anger management does wonders sometimes
I think (and this is just my theory) that FS puts more emphasis on VFR GA planes. All the planes behaviour, including jets have been designed from the same source -  a single prop cessna. The air configs does a good job in "hiding" the cessna tendencies in the jets, but they can't erase every behaviour =/  I mean the 777 have advanced fly-by-wire system, and that's not exactly the same as a cessna

So to sum it up: MS focuses more on VFR and less on IFR.

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Even though I'm not a big iron fanatic (in FS, I mean) it does give me a much bigger rush when I fly the 744 and push those four throttle levers foward to full power, and hear those massive Rolls Royce engines thundering. I take it up to 170 kts. and slowly pull back on the control column and the nose wheel lifts off the ground, shortly followed by the main bogies. (This is in FS, mind you.)

It's not quite as big of a rush, however, pushing that single like throttle lever foward in the Cessna 172 and hearing the *massive* Lycoming 120 horse engine screaming like a man-eating sewing machine. I take it to a *frightening* 65 kts. and give the yoke a good tug. The nose wheel lifts up and the back wheels come up and that is it. Whoopty-doo. GA is much more fun in real life, by the way. It is sort of sad that not as much attention is given to heavies.  Oh well, that's why there are third-party designers. (Thanks, guys.)

P.S. When I use the asterisks, it means extreme sarcasm.

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Oops, I either didn't see it on the list or was thinking jets and not props. You're right. I guess I vote for Lockheed vintage planes.   

I know it's impossible to include every manufacturer in a poll but the Convair is one of the sweetest flying planes I've come across in FS2002 so far though it's tricky to land.