While looking over my hangar to get some sense of what my compatibility future with MSFS 2024 might look like, I found something interesting.
Ironic really, because for all the talk of bugs and lack of systems depth more than half of my fleet is Carenado aircraft!
Starting with the first add for the Market Place CT182 and onwards.
How about the rest of you?
Just Flight - Hawk T1, Turbo Arrows, Tomahawk, Vulcan.
Indiafoxtecho - M346, F35, F14, Tornado.
Both are truly excellent devs with great support and excel in slightly different ways. Although JF take longer to push updates as an add-on gets older, they’re never abandoned and I’m always confident they’ll get done. IFE seem to get updates out quicker.
I really appreciate the JF manuals, easy to navigate and always include a comprehensive introductory flight to get you going.
Just Flight (4 planes). Not because they are the best but because my favourite developers Fenix and A2A released one plane each for MSFS :).
Gotfriends for sure.
Blackbox (I have everything they’ve released), with Indiafoxtecho and Just Flight close behind.
Carenado - but there are three other developers tied for second place
I’d have to look but for me DC Designs, Miltech, and Captain Sim all have a multiple spaces on my hangar
DC Designs and Miltech. I liked them all so much i ended up product testing for them and everyone else they publish products for. 
CowanSimulations Helicopters make me very, very happy. It’s because of CowanSims that I enjoy this simulator (2020) so much. 
That’s awesome! 
Just Flight and Carenado are tied.
Carenado, for sure, if I include the MS/Carenado LL/FF collaborations.
Otherwise they are tied with Just Flight and Azurpoly.
JustFlight.
Aeroplane Hea…
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Ha Ha!!!
Run…
According to my spreadsheet of aircraft in my hangar:
GotFriends 14
Carenado 7
Cowansim 7
BlackBox Simulations 5
FlyingIron 5
Asobo/Inibuilds 5
GotFriends are the easy winners: though the list includes two GotGravel aircraft from the pre-Friends days. And I haven’t discounted the aircraft that are about to be deprecated in 2024.
There are no doubt other Carenado and Inibuilds planes that I have logged purely as Asobo. But whether there are enough payware ones to challenge GotFriends…
Edit: and, of course - I should have checked this earlier - some of the GotFriends aircraft were free - six, according to my list. That would make it closer, though they’d still just pip Carenado - at least in my list - and Cowansim.
Carenado and Cowansim are tied in my hanger at 9 each.
For MSFS, my top 10 were:
Microsoft/Various (Famous Flyers/Local Legends) (8)
Carenado (5)
Got Friends (4)
Flysimware (4)
BRSimDesign (4)
Black Box Simulations (4)
Big Radials (4)
Sim Works Studios (3)
Sim Skunk Works (3)
Milviz (3)
Dcdesigns
Azurepoly
Rare birds (sorry my latin is terrible)
