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Jul 22nd, 2008 at 1:26pm

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I am thinking of getting my first payware aircraft some time soon. I was thinking something military such as a BAe Hawk (perhaps the AJT, isn't it?) or even an oldie such as a Spitfire.

Can anyone point me in the direction of some good military aircraft producers? I would like something made for FSX (I have SP2 and Accel.) so that it does actually work instead of a copy from FS9 which typically has something lacking in the aircraft quality I have found.

So who are some good military aircraft producers?

Anything else I should look out for?

Any other good producers for aircraft or scenery?

Where is this very popular Kai Tak scenery coming from?



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Reply #1 - Jul 22nd, 2008 at 1:32pm

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Can't say about the military payware, I'm a commercial jet junkie myself.

The Kai Tak scenery was recently released by FlyTampa.
 
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Reply #2 - Jul 22nd, 2008 at 1:37pm

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ThomasKaira wrote on Jul 22nd, 2008 at 1:32pm:
Can't say about the military payware, I'm a commercial jet junkie myself.

The Kai Tak scenery was recently released by FlyTampa.

Well it is all good. Who do you typically lean towards for your commercial wares? In the future I would no doubt love to have a few really decent commercial aircraft too.

And thanks. Hmm, £20... that doesn't sound too bad. I am loving the St Maarten pack on their site too. That higher ground and close to sea runway looks like good fun  Grin
 
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Reply #3 - Jul 22nd, 2008 at 2:06pm

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Alphasim is the best out there for Military... and most of their add-on's in recent months have a fully seperate FSX model with all the nice features that DX10 allows!

While still offering a very high quality FS9 model Cool...

Some of the older products won't be 100% FSX compatible, but most of the better ones are!

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Reply #4 - Jul 22nd, 2008 at 2:10pm

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For me:

PMDG  737, 747
Flight1 SSTSIM, LevelD 767
(Soon)QualityWings 757 and the A380-developer-who's-name-I-do-not-remember-who-I-gave-a-shout-out-to-a-few-days
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Reply #5 - Jul 22nd, 2008 at 2:59pm

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RealAir Spitfire pack for FSX just ROCKS Cool
Shockwave (A2A now?) are also good.
Captain Sim produce superb quality kit (I've got all of their stuff in my collection).
Just Flight seem to be doing some good stuff at the moment as well. Got to get my paws on their new Mossie package Cool
 
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Reply #6 - Jul 23rd, 2008 at 1:29am

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My favorites are:

Shockwave/A2A B-17 & P-40
Lionheart Creations Bellanca Viking
Aerosoft DHC2 Beaver
RealAir Scout
 
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Reply #7 - Jul 23rd, 2008 at 6:39am

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Naturally am bias but if you want best bang for buck + naturally the best in terms of realism (to the numbers fly with the aircraft manual flight models) and mega eye candy mixed with true sound engineer sounds (good sound system needed to get the best outta these babies) then why not give us a look over.

On a different note, it depends what you want, unlike FS9, FSX has not currently got much reproduction. So if you want a late war spitfire you could go Real Air, if you want early war you could come over to A2A. I suggest having a good think about what your after as it may well dictate who you buy from. Oh yes and naturally try to read reviews or give the developers forums a visit so you know exactly what you will be getting.
 
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Reply #8 - Jul 23rd, 2008 at 12:10pm

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For a small plane, Aerosoft's FS2004 Super Cub, for only $9, it works great in FSX, with SP1 & SP2. You can see it if you click the link in my sig, I'm running it with FSX SP2. Smiley
 
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Reply #9 - Jul 23rd, 2008 at 12:24pm
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Reply #10 - Jul 25th, 2008 at 8:09pm

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Reply #11 - Jul 26th, 2008 at 4:56pm

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Reply #12 - Jul 27th, 2008 at 7:18am

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Reply #13 - Jul 27th, 2008 at 8:27am

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Abacus
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Reply #14 - Jul 28th, 2008 at 2:34pm

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Rich H wrote on Jul 27th, 2008 at 8:27am:
Abacus
CLS
Captain Sim
Wilco
Just Flight
AFS-Design
Wings of Power


Are you having a laugh! Abacus haven't made a new model in my lifetime. Some very good utilities, but aircraft no.

Just Flight are the portover kings taking things from 2002 and bunging tem into any sim they can. Again I am not knocking them for what they produce but FSX specific I think not.

Captain Sim make some of the finest software out there butte others are also rans

Come on stop just throwing names up there and give the guy a chance
 
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