I think there may be a few misunderstandings, so I’d like to clarify something.
Back in 2025, the 2020 version of the AN-2 had several issues when used in MSFS 2024, even though it worked perfectly fine in MSFS 2020.
At the time I wrote that comment, there were already known problems being discussed by other users as well, such as the fuel tank issue and brake malfunctions. That’s why I left that comment back then.
The GPS version, in particular, could not even start the engine at all.
And do I know how to fly this aircraft? Of course I do. It was actually one of my favorite aircraft in MSFS 2020.
I also have auto-mixture on, but never the less it makes a difference. This game is not free of bugs, just the fact that you have something selected in your settings does not mean it always works.
115-120kts is way too fast for that aircraft. Such speeds are only achieved in fast descents after dropping parachutists. We typically see 170km/h in cruise with 700torr and 1750 RPM. This equals around 91kts…
Then that means the flight characteristics in the sim were different. As it was possible to reach such speeds. Perhaps they have corrected it with this new update? But lets be realistic when comparing a $15 gimmick to the actual real life aircraft, there is inevitably going to be some discrepancies.
The question is: at what power settings do you reach those speeds? In real life we can reach them in level flight with almost maximum continuous power but that is a problem on the engine temperature side and on the fuel consumption side. I did see pretty reasonable numbers in the sim besides the speeds when you add flaps. Those are off by large. The resistance factor of the sim-flaps is way too high. Approach speeds of around 110-120km/h with flaps 30 should be easily manageable with a little bit of power in a reasonably steep final descent.
And yes, 15$ is not much for such a beautiful addon. It did help me a lot for my typerating course a bit more than a year ago in terms of cockpit orientation and checks and flows. But a little more love for performance would be much appreciated.