Anything is better than the stock aircraft
Check out AvHistory for some really great aircraft including:
Beaufighter MkI & IF
Hurricane MkI
Spitfire MkI
Corsair
Mustang MkIII
B-17
Fw190
BF 109E
Hellcat
Wildcat
Zero
the list goes on...

I so wish someone would make a Spitfire MkXIV

I've never had a spot of bother with any aircraft I've downloaded, but CFS3 is so unstable at the best of times that any small change can cause you hours of tweeking if you are not careful. Never had this trouble with CFS2.

My CFS3 runs smooth, with almost no tweaking, with a 500Mhz processor! Yeah, the frame rate isn't the best it could be, but hey, beggars can't be choosy!

Anyway... back to topic.

I personally find that AvHistory makes rather incomplete aircraft.  Parts go untextured and the first Corsair released, was well...  Never liked AvHistory all too much.

I always give aircraft a fair chance, they still never measure up.  By the way, the only slider I keep on five is aircraft! I'm just absolutely dumbfounded how people can say, "It was well worth the download!", and then, it doesn't even have a VC!  Don't waste my time! And I'm talking CFS2, FS20002, FS2004 and CFS3.

Mathias, don't get too toasty, the only reason I haven't started griping with the Heinkel is because it's a Beta.  Though I must say it seems like it just needs polishing up!

Hawker, funny you should say that, I think nothing is better than stock aircraft! Save for the two former aircraft.  (Control yourself Mathias! )

Now that I think of it, wasn't there some modern aircraft or some Korean war jets coming out in awhile.  I heard about a Komet too.  Makes me think of my own 163, and how I never finished it!

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Or for targeting other drones; I just can't bear to shoot such a beautiful aircraft down!

Although I need to switch from that North Afrika scheme to normal BoB colors.  Looks a bit... out of place!

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Scorpion old chap, for someone who is so keen on detail as you, I can't believe you think the stock aircraft are the best ??? The list of inaccuracies and lack of attention to detail in the stock models is mind boggling. Not a single British aircraft is correct in all respects, those daft coloured stripes aside, weapons load outs are incorrect or inaccurate, detail like a pitot tube on the Tempest are missing, the Spifires look "wrong" and the IXe has the machine guns in the wrong location, no Spitfire in WW2 ever had those underwing drop tanks, the list is endless.
Many third party types have tried to solve some of these errors however and I now only fly historically correct repaints of the stock models.
If it were not for those wounderful chaps at Groundcrew and AvHistory I'd have dumped this and brought IL2 ages ago.

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That's a render of the Bf110G-4 nightfighter cockpit in it's current state.
The lights and shadows in the game are not exactly as in the render but close.
Here is an older pic in the game:
Note the geometry and texturing has improved since then:)
The "static" shadowing in the final version should be close to those in the render above.

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Well Scorpion, as you can see, we implement new technics as we go and learn them, thus it's really impossible to give any clue, we just don't know
Just so much, I'm back at work on the night stuff after being side-tracked by other stuff for...err..7 month. 8)

Back on topic - anyone working on adding the P-61 black widow to CFS3?  That was a great interceptor.  Another cool plane would be the Focke Wulf Ta 154, Moskito?

Also, why hasn't anyone released an ME 163?  The HE 162, while it looks good is too flimsy.  I like the 163 tactics against bomber formations.  That took some cojones!

If I wanted to model my own A/C is the software available?

Mathias, you'll notice that Woody asked you that, not me. But I'd also like a Lancaster, ever since Hagar told me you get four guns in the back!  Screw the Fortress!  Although CFS3 gunnery is crappy at best, but there's still the Grand Slam!  Though lacking good looks, that Lancaster is the coolest bomber ever!


Mathias, so long as you're remaking the Zestoerer, I have a suggestion.  By and large, the 110 pleased every aspect that I look for in aircraft, except maybe for a few missing details in the model, nothing that Microsoft did a better job on.  But my big gripe is just how painfully boring the custom paint schemes are; they're all the same!  My suggestion is to (surprise!) spice up the configurable skins.  Example: Instead of the same exact gray for each 110, how about give each variant a specific scheme?

• Early-war Luftwaffe dark/light green on top and grey on the bottom
• Present gray Wespe Geschwaderen
• Light blue with mid blue "spaghetti"
• Black night-fighter

And maybe some winter schemes where applicable.  None are to have aircraft specific markings, so that the letter and little nose art can still be added.  Also, while configurable skins are neat and all, they can sometimes be overpowering (usually the tail).  Not all positions have to be used.  Only two or three can be enabled (like on the P-47), whenever the four positions would prove insatisfactory.  Basically, make each aircraft a unique experience to fly, instead of just the armament being different.

I hope that wasn't a big jarble of nothing.

Oh, sorry to here that. Oh well, worth a shot eh?

I know you guts have all those paint options, but I use only the configurable skins you guys have provided, so you can guess how spicy my 110 collection is. Maybe somethin' will come out later on.

I don't think I insinuated any newer skins were made, but oh well, I'm confused!

Whoah!  How in the world did you get so much detail on the rudder in the last one?  CFS3 usually makes textures rather blocky.  Kind of like the weathering around the Hakenkreuz.  However you did it, nice!

That's some pretty good variation, I guess.  Will y'all be releasing paint templates?

What! I dunno about all that.  People keep releasing repaints of a lot of "not so hot" aircraft, so how in the world wouldn't anyone want to paint y'all's aircraft?  I know I sure would, if Alessandro releases a paint template. I dont think I'd make a whole bunch, but at least two! (Probably those non-historically correct ones I mentioned!)