Hi guys,
I just think strongly about the new aircraft categories.
To me it made so much more sense how it was in FS2020, now it kinda got very generic and you have to scroll a lot to find the selection you’re looking for.
Please bring back the old categories (Jets, Propeller, Turboprop etc.)
Or categories and subcategories. Either way, this is no improvement, especially with the horizontal scroll and no further aircraft details.
Category: aircraft, helictoper, etc.
Sub-category: piston, turboprop, jet, etc.
It would be nice if we could have aircraft search work on categories such as the avionics system, engine type, developer, etc.
For instance, “turboprop G3000” and show us all the turboprops with G3000 avionics.
We had this filter in 2020 but now it needs to be a sub filter/category in 2024 under Airplane.
I just wanted to create a new entry for the wishlist, but then my post would probably have been merged into this one.
But I think you should change the title of this post, because they won’t bring back the 2020 Aircraft Menu. I would prefer “Add Subcategories to the aircraft menu”.
Especially the “aircraft” category is too big. I would propose single engine prop, multi engine prop, business jets, airliners and perhaps special aircraft for oldtimers and local legends.
Note: There is also a similar wish from Sep 2020 to add a “Favorites” option:
Has 560 votes to-date.
If the aircraft favorites wishlist item is deemed applicable to MSFS 2024 and has 560+ votes why isn’t it showing up on the current Thursday development update top wishlist snapshot.
The current snapshots only have newly created requests since the release of 2024. My concern is that this thread with many votes will get buried as a legacy MSFS 2020 request and never be implemented for the new 2024 simulator.
If the moderators are merging new posts into my original request how can we ensure it has visibility as a top wishlist item in MSFS 2024?
Agree and it would be nice to have custom filtering like standard, premium, aviator etc
@TiggerTailz
W.r.t. 2020 & 2024 items in future Development Updates - Let’s see how they look in 2025. I think the reason that the charts just showed 2024 items in the last update was those were of specific interest to the community at the time.
I’m unaware of any potential changes to the format of future Development Update posts, but that does not mean the Community Managers are not planning any!! 
You’ll notice that your topic (the link I referenced) is now tagged with both msfs-2020 & msfs-2024.
imo, I see these as two different things.
One is making the drop down/search filter, categories more in line with 2020 or even better.
The other item regardless of label headers, is to within them “heart” to favorite them, similar to favoriting an item in the marketplace.
Yes, same functionality as the marketplace would be a good start.
I’d love to see a text search as well that could trigger off of any data field (developer, avionics system, etc.).
No changes were introduced to aircraft categories in SU2 v 1.4.20.0.
I very much want additional aircraft sorting abilities, like sort by cruise speed, max altitude, engine type, water runway capable, or to mark favorites. The column based sorting that the SonicViz Aircraft Manager provided in MSFS 2020 was amazing. It made selecting an aircraft very easy for a group flight where only the runway surface and cruise speed were known.
