I am looking for a good bush plane without glass displays for my Canadian adventure. I know the Freedom Fox is great but I just can’t stand the look of the default Garmin displays. Any suggestions?
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Zenith STOL and the Bird Dog.
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Zenith is fantastic, as is the GotGravel Savage Carbon as a Free option. For that trip, the Savage Carbon is my preference.
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The Britten-Norman Islander, you can land it pretty much anywhere you like.
GotGravel’s Savage Carbon or Savage Grravel.
Or if you have the steam gauges C172 (Premium/Deluxe editions of MSFS) Bagolu’s bush mods. Availble with classic gear or in taidragger version.
They are free on flightsim.to so you can test with no risks and delete if you don’t like them.
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And soon (hoping before end of year) the payware PZL-104 Wilga from Got Friends in multiple variants:
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I wont be buying any bushplanes before the release of Wilga. I think it should be worth the wait.
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That’s what is cool with Carbon, Grravel and Bagolu’s C172 mods,
they are free so he can immediately have them while waiting for the Wilga.
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The BBS L19 bird dog. Underrated actually, best tail dragger in MSFS by a mile and fantastic to fly - high immersion factor. I won’t be replacing mine anytime soon and it’s my “go to” for “low and slow”. It’s also helped me to learn how to handle tail dragger aircraft properly.
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My votes are for Grravel and particularly Bagolu’s C172 taildragger. Now the default .cfg are open I hope he can solve some bugs.
But waiting for a classic super cub or cessna 185 skyvagon… with engine/instruments failures, suffering tough environments (get dirt, broken gear…), a realistic and visual cargo load…
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Bagolu’s bush 172s are awesome.
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Orbx PAC750. Great plane for bush flying. Have been using it for the short bush strips in PNG & it’s a gem for that sort of flying.
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I like the Bird Dog most. No glass at all, great sound and it includes an Amphib.
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And the Trislander, aka the closest thing to a DC-10 we have in the sim.
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Islander and Trislander are not exactly bush planes…
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Why not? They both have decent STOL capabilities, a simple and reliable construction, and can land on rough airfields. What else do you need?
(Admittedly, the Trislander is pretty big for the “bush plane” category.)
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The //42 Kitfox if we’re talking a true bushplane - I suspect the upcoming Wilga might take over when it comes out though. But I also enjoy the Kodiak and MilViz Porter for some larger bush planes.
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If you want a challenge try Ant’s Tiger Moth … been flying it a lot lately in mountainous terrain and its great fun - playing with ridge lift to get altitude and needing to be mindful of sink on the lee sides. Good flight model, well behaved but believable in winds. Well worth a try!
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A bush plane should be able to take off and land on very little strips or even with no strip at all. Often in mountains and surrounded by trees.
Even if it have excellent capabilities for rough airfields, an Islander is too big, too heavy and need… an airfield ! It’s not a real bush plane.
Some examples in these vids:
I don’t think an Islander can use these places, except perhaps Courchevel.
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Zenith for me.
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