Well… reading the OP and what you enjoy I would care to also point you into the direction of JustFlight addons who have some really great regional airliners. The Bae146 and Fokker 28 are designed for those short hops within ‘feeder networks’ giving you a potentially satisfying feel of connecting smaller airports with the bigger ones ad you meanwhile operate pretty high demanding old school machines with their quirks and learning curves. Just a pointer to include in your research that might very well fill a gap between the 8 hrs flights and local enjoyment.
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You know? The HPG A145 might be fun. It is a FBW helicopter with all glass and autopilot. Really bizarre to learn and fly. Brilliant in VR. Focus mode to zoom in on buttons with a mouse click. Works with the VR controllers even.
If you already know how to fly helicopters this will break your brain. It does everything differently and it has real systems depth.
Like, a truly odd bird and a VR marvel.
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Peruse this thread, OP.
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Thanks for that BP228. Most interesting.
I see that I have been given excellent advice re the Comanche. It seems to top the bill every time.
I just upgraded it to a must have, first day purchase.
I see the Quest Kodiak is also indeed “a thing” in msfs. More decisions and research.
Apologies to the wellredbaron. I see you already mentioned it, but I failed to connect the dots.
I have to say that the more I look into MSFS2024, the more excited I become. It is not what I thought it was, it is far more.
Perhaps because whenever I saw a vid on youtube about flying in MSFS 2020, they all have those tooltips and switches turning blue when you go to switch them, and even worse, those " lollypops" and instrument readings floating in space, spread around the landscape.
Those content providers are doing the sim no favours by leaving them switched on. It certainly put me off investing in MSFS 2020 for four years, or even be bothered to look into it. As far as I was concerned, it was just an Xbox arcade game.
I saw a vid recently, just showcasing the CL415 on the ground ( breathtaking) and noted that the lollypops were no longer a thing. This made me look a bit deeper.
Since they were present in every vid I saw, I assumed they were always there.
My loss.
I’m an old school flier from the days of an expertly folded half mil map on ones knee, and the new fangled gps was forbidden by the CAA for primary navigation use. I suppose thats why I dislike such “helpers”. I have a penchant for getting myself into difficulty, and either I get myself out of it by clear thinking, or die. Either way, I learn something.
Oh and as a typical bloke, of course, I never RTFM.
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I think you’ll be a fan of the new career mode. Damage a plane and you have to fix it with funds you’ve accumulated. Lose a plane and you have to buy a new one. I’m looking forward to needing to be more careful in my own virtual skies.
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I fly mostly in VR and enjoy the Black Square King Air and TBM 850. Other aircraft that are great in VR are the Kodiak 100, DA42 from Cows. For bush flying, you can’t go past the Freedom Fox series from \42. These days, there is so much to choose from.
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No worries. We often drop the manufacturer from plane names in this forum so I am sure I didn’t say, “Quest.”
It and the float version (Floatiak) combined make for a plane that can take of and land almost anywhere. It is the plane I fly around the world because I know it can land at random airstrips I have never seen before.
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Checking back in. Thanks to your recommendations, my search for a complex piston single has been ongoing.
I narrowed it down to two contenders, the Comanche having a new serious competitor.
The Flysimware Sierra. Another seriously fantastic aircraft. Very, very impressive textures.
That is a DCS quality aircraft.
My personal opinion is that the Beech Sierra is a far better looking aircraft, texture wise. However. I sit in a cockpit, not on a wingtip, so the external textures are a bit moot.
Internally, again I think the Sierra has a very slight edge over the Comanche. Both are mightily impressive, but I think the Sierra being a new aircraft, had the benefit of a benchmark in the guise of the Comanche to exceed.
However, the Sierra has a glass cockpit and I am a steam gauge man. If the Sierra had an option for analogue dials, the Sierra would have been first past the post.
But my first day piston single purchase is still the Comanche at this point.
Thanks for the Sierra recommendation. A very, very impressive aircraft.
I am so looking forward to November 19th.
After a while with the Comanche, expect me back here, bleating about turboprop twins (i always liked the King Air) and turbine short field performers like the Kodiak or Cessna Caravan.
Looks like my VR Hog rig will get even more use in the future. I wonder if I could fit a yoke in there…
Easily! I think just get something like this for your keyboard and put it to the right or whatever.
I have a more vertical holder than can rotate out toward me when I need to use it but had it years from my racing rig (made by FrexGP, Japanese company) and they don’t seem available like that any more.
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I like the Sierra but it’s a lot of work for 130KT.
Nice to see another rig where the fire brigade would be needed for an emergency extraction 
I lost my own desk completely when I put the yoke in but I did get a foldable side desk extesion from Amazon which lets me have a side keyboard. I also got my roll of bodge tape that you recommended a few days ago, so things are looking up!
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