I have been wondering how many of you will stay loyal to CFS2 since Pacific Fighter has been release. Do you really think CFS2 can hang around much longer or will you guys start wandering away like we have from CFS1. I hope not . Pacific Fighter might be terrific Simulator but it will never replace CFS2.  Iam not discouraging anyone  from puchasing PT . I for one have preorder one copy for myself. So thats not my objective in writing this post.  My objective is to remind everyone  how flexible this Simulator is and how great it has become with improvements made thru the  community. This is the only Simulator that can Simulate flying from WWI to the Korea war. Its the only Sim with a World Map. You could Fly around the World thru Free Flght and unlimited Fuel. With all Sceneries available thru all downloads it would be enjoyale flight. Is the only Sim that allow you to include Hundreds of plane of different Eras to fly in the same Sim. You can add Sceneries ,Missions, Campaings or create your own Missions with the Mission Builder. Their is also a Web site where you add Dynamic Missions to the game. This is a Great Simulator with out a question. Now let me give you some of tips on how to improve your Experience with this Simulator.

I f You want planes to  downloaded you can download them from this Websites and others.
1: [url=www. Simviation.com]www. Simviation.com[/url]
2: www.Sim-outhouse.com/.
3: www.Simnetwork.com/
4: www.netwings.org
If you want some the best German plane especially Bf109 this is of one of the best site I have found.
http://myzone59.ath.cx/accueil.php3
Now for some the of the best Japanese plane available this a nice Web site.
http://hago003.hp.Infoseek.co.jp/index.html
For Texure. I found some seasonal Texure for Europe in Simnetwork.com in the Scenery section that sre prertty cool.
You can also download very good Italian planes from this Web site:
Http://www.Isoliti4gatti.com/

if you want to edit your missions and campaings. Here is very good Utility that I highly recommend at Sim-outhouse.com  . Its call Mks_cfs_utility.v2 . This ulity not allows you change you plane in your mission and camp folders but also help you create different hangers for different theaters of war for you quick missions builder.

Another Utility that I highly recommend is call CFO Weather . With this utility you can change the weather of every Mission as you fly thruough it . It also has a Auto pilot program that is very neat. It has many other features not avalable before. One is a no cheat mode that does not allow you to cheat out of the cockpit. Another thing I discover the other day is that if you have other installs representing different theater of war. You can use the MB of each new install thru this program. You can find this program at.
http://www.caw15.com/

There will be more advices to be  post later . Iam getting tire . I will post them tomorrow. I hope I have been helpful.

Another Utility I recommend is to download Co man

utillity from: http://fly.to/mwgfx

This utility will allow you to install aircraft into 18 different Hangars. Just a word of advice is to always place the original stock planes in every Hanger. Other wise the program will not work properly.
Once you use all the Hangers. You could create your own Hangars and place them on the Aircraft folder whenever you want to use them. I recommend you use the program first before you try to create your own Hangars because it much easier to change Hangers thru it. All you need is name them acording to what Theater of War war you want use ti in. Its real easy.

Another Wbsite that real cool its: www.absquad.net
In this Website you get most of the Upgrade and Utilities you may need ti improve  CFS2. The best thing about it is that they all come with self Instalators. So you do not have to worry where to install them.

Another obtion in playing this game its that you can played in a Dynamic Mission and Campaing format if you want to. You can get the dynamic Campaing at :
http://members.shaw.ca/dcgen/

Another thing I found is a great European Scenary at :
www.mlk-airbase.wz.cz/msfs/scenery/texture_swap.html

More Upgrades can bee found at :  
http://theghostfiles.org/
and at
http://web.tiscali.it/jobim/cfs2/

More planes at 1.http://www.fsfreeware.com/dcd/

Skins for Aliies and Axis
1.http://mysite.verizon.net/resodflp/briansrepaintsforcfs2andcfs32/

Polish Web with Planes and Campaigns Here:
http://robin.akcja.pl/cfs/index.html

New squadron with Down loads found at:http://www.vf15-flyingaces.com/vf15_fighting_aces_downloads.htm


I would Like your feedback if any of my advice has help in your enjoyment of CFS2.  Thank you James007

Other Web for good Planes I have found thru the years: For the Ki44:
http://pigeonh.free.fr/ki442.htm

The best one I found for the Fw190:
hhttp://www.virtualwings.org/e

WWI:  http://www.domicilium.com/peveril/hangar/hangar.htm

One of the Web on the North Africa Campaing is:
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/Mauro154/index.htm

Great Pacific Air Bases:
http://home.earthlink.net/~crismahn/Publish/index.html


Extra very well made Textures on  the Pacific and Europen Thearter are Pactex :
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/brigstock/CFS.htm

This one have great Upgrades:
http://theghostfiles.org/CFS2p1.htm

This has some nice German Planes and some extra Item. Check it out:
http://www.groundcrewdesign.com/

I Love this Web for it Japanese planes. It also some other plane as well:
http://www.stormpages.com/acwai/cfs.html

I almost Forgot this Web has very nice cockpits for stock planes when you make them flyable:
http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~LD-REP/japan_panel_page-2.htm

In my opinion some of the best plane available are AV history plane%.  They are now availible:
http://www.netwings.org/

I will post other Informations at a later date. I hope you enjoy the ones I have provided so far. Please give me your input . Thank you

I started with Dynamix Aces of the Pacific and progressed through numerous flight sims. Microprose European Air War came in 2nd place for versatility and I played with 3D Red Baron for a long time until I installed XP, (unresolvable sound problems requiring boot and reboot etc) and now play Cfs2. Even though I have Cfs3 I still have more fun with Cfs2 as I can set it up to operate with any theater and time period. With all the planes and accessories provided by enthusiasts it can become quite a sophisticated game. Pacific what?

I see no one responded to Stiz.  here's the working link for the Aerodrome:  http://www.aer.ip3.co.uk/

I think it's the best Combat Sim from MS fo far....CFS-3 is a TOTAL waste of HD space. I think that Janes WW-II is the best in your face combat sim. The enemy fly straight at you. Most of the combat is at EXTREAMLY close range. Also SDOE is still a great sim now that it's up to version 1.6. To check out this excellent sim just go to http://openplanesim.com/

CFS2 is and will remain my favourite combat sim for the foreseeable future.

started combat sims with EAW
(with addons had heaps of planes in the sky at once with no slowdowns great for BOB stuff ROWANS would never work on my machine for some inexplicable reason)

progressed to CFS2( loved it.... although a bit lonely)

bought IL2( loved it being  VVS VS LUFTWAFFE)
(an area that not many of us knew much about excellent that he brought  a very important  theater to our attention so it could have the respect it deserved)

but then OLEG tried to please various other tastes and basically everything just slipped back to the usual themes

i have them all on my hardrive and will not be taking any of them off

they are all good in there own ways

and are like old friends(yes even cfs3.)

but CFS2 is my main "interest"
the development potential is enormous

(but for a good dogfight LA7vs BF109 ...IL2 is it for me)

enjoy