When a cat has enjoyed all these funky buttons and computer systems and screens and computer assistance-systems and the beautyful space-ship like illuminated cockpit for once, said cat cannot be lured into some small cramped single-prop GA anymore… 
I’ve been a GA addict ever since, and only really got into flightsim, when virtual cockpits made it into FS8 (I believe) and one could finally pan around. And MSFS2020 delivers on GA VFR flying big time. So usually just hoping into some small plane, taking off from any location that for whatever reason tickles my fancy, looking up VORs to route to another airfield within 1-2 hours of flight time, taking in the scenery and atmosphere along the way.
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Last time I looked I was not a cat.
That´s just an old saying adjusted to aviation
When a cat has tasted caviar once she will no longer eat Whiskas.
I realise that but it does not mean a simmer is fixed to any aircraft type or any resolution or VR which some say you will never go back to. Simply not true.
GA for me. Working my way through my logbook from many years ago flying the same flights on the same aircraft but this time with the G1000 NXi.
Haven’t run the sim since July 2021, but, I’d say I am both with a heavy lean towards airliners.
80% airliners and 20% GA to checkout scenery etc.
It is good that airliners in the sim are approaching “study level” however to be honest it is not where MSFS shines. In some ways P3D and XPlane still do airliners better.
You cannot say that for VFR and particularly bush flying. To come even close the other sims need hundreds of dollars of addons.
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When a cat gets outside and gets to be hands on with the world it’s not going to want to go back inside and stare at the TV 
Before being able to touch the ground with her paws a cat must first learn make a Cat2 or Cat3 approach.
There is no sneaking through the evening nature and hunting nice with broken legs when the landing was too rough.
I think it’s difficult to compare apples for apples when you didn’t normalise the playing field. The airliners in the sim are all dependent on the developers that made them. And you need to take into account the age of the sim. P3D and XPlane has been in the market for years, it has been the go to simulator where FSX was pretty much at the end of its life. So developers have had years to develop airliners for P3D and XPlane well ahead and have refine and improved them over the years.
MSFS is barely 2 years. And the aircraft development have only started when the sim was released, so any of the current airliners that you see in the sim is barely even 2 years old in their development lifecycle. It’s still very early when compared to the years that the airliners have been developed for P3D and XPlane.
So I think a fair comparison would be to compare where the state of the airliners in MSFS would be in the year 2030 with the airliners is today in XPlane and P3D.
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I agree with this. In earlier flight sims I was heavy into the heavies. “ATP: Air Transport Pilot” was one of my favorite games. I was a “Point A to Point B” kind of pilot. I didn’t even know what bush flying was. Now with MSFS, flying the slower GA planes, tail-draggers and ultralights is practically all I do. The beautiful scenery just begs for the low and slow kind of flying. No matter how study-level the new airliners may be, I am now a bush pilot.
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I enjoy the scenery more than the planes. Heck, I can’t even figure out the autopilot but I can manually fly those small two seaters over the mountains. When working correctly, the scenery can really give the feeling of what the actual view would be if you were in that spot high above.
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The scenery is very important!
Baah I remember these ugly (or to be more precise: disgusting looking) “generic texture tiles” all scenery was made of in older sims.
Now I have photorealistic view from my Fenix cockpit. PERFECT!
I can´t resist the awesome ultra-techy Fenix cockpit but I can´t resist bushflying too, that´s why both are now combined sometimes.
Some time sooner or later the day will come having the Fenix equipped with start support rockets and bushwheels like it was a C-130 to fly from Lower Loon Creek to whatever VFR-airport looks alluring to land…
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How do you find the Sim’a version of the plane vs. the real thing?
Airliner, definitely. PMDG 737, Fenix A320 and FSLabs Concorde-X (in FSX, waiting for P3D/MSFS version).
Thanks for that link. Those are some awesome looking sceneries
I´m a total Airliner guy, sadly theres no real long range plane out yet. I´m kinda looking forward to the A380.
Currently, I try to perfect my approach procedures by flying regional airliners like the CRJ and Bae146.
But that does not mean I don´t like small planes, I bought myself the 414 and I like it very much.
It´s a very different experience to the big planes, but it´s still fun to fly.
If you couple these small planes with that third party GTN750 and use FShub for ATC (basically throw out anything Asobo for important functions and you´re golden) you actually have a borderline realistic and bugfree IFR experience.
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Helicopter and helicopter only!
I fly both depending on my mood of the day.