As you probably know, I run the Top 10 Aircraft thread. At the end of the year I do an Awards Ceremony. This year I want to decide the BEST AIRCRAFT DEVELOPERS by running this Poll. This will eliminate the advantage developers may have from having more products to accumulate votes in my Charts, or that are a newcomer and have not yet had the time to rise in the Charts this year.
There are 2 POLLS below: 1. PAYWARE Developers (see the Extra Votes Table (in the fold-out below the Poll) if you don’t see who you want to vote for!) 2. FREEWARE Developers (please scroll down to see that one)
So please vote for your favourite AIRCRAFT DEVELOPERS! You can vote for up to 5 in each Category!
I will take the results from this to present the Best Developer Awards for 2024, but will keep the topic running into the future for now.
This is not necessarily about developers of your favourite aircraft, but what developers you respect or appreciate do great work. For example, I do not fly airliners, but I could still list Fenix, PMDG or Fly By Wire as I can appreciate their dedication and quality of work.
Your choices should rather be based on recognising that the best Developers combine not only an excellent product, but updates in a decent timeframe, good customer support and a good rapport with their customers.
NOTES:
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NOTE 1: Due to limits on answer options, I have had to make a decision of which 30 to initially list in the Poll. If you do not see the Developer you want to vote for, please check the EXTRA VOTES TABLES first and write in the comments. I will add them into the table and count those votes manually.
NOTE 2: Some developers appear in BOTH polls as they offer freeware and premium products.
NOTE 3: PLEASE DON’T CHEAT! If you want to vote for any in the Extras Table, reduce that number of votes from your selection in the Poll!
Poll 1 | PAYWARE Developers
Pick up to 5 PAYWARE DEVELOPERS
A2A Simulations
Aerosoft
Ants Airplanes
AzurPoly
Big Radials
Black Square
Blackbird / MilViz / Shrike
BlackBox Simulation
Classic Aircraft Simulations
Cowan Simulations
COWS
Fenix
FlightFX
Fly Inside
Flyboy Simulations
FlyingIron Simulations
Flysimware (FSW)
FS Reborn
Got Friends
Hype Performance Group (HPG)
IndiaFoxtEcho / Heatblur
Just Flight
Mario Noriega
Parallel 42 (//42)
PMDG
Rara-Avis Sims
SimWorks Studio (SWS)
Taog’s Hangar
Top Mach Studios
WB-Sim / JPL (WeptBurrito)
0voters
Extra Votes Table - PAYWARE:
DEVELOPER
VOTES
A1R Design
Aeroplane Heaven
Asobo / Microsoft / Working Title
3
AT Simulations
2
Aviacion Espanola
Bear Studios
BlueMesh
BRsim Designs
BT Studio
Captain Sim
Carenado
Cera Simulations
Cockspur
DC (SC / CJ) Designs
1
Deimos Inc.
FastCow Simulation
Flight Replicas
FlightSim Studio (FSS)
Flying Fries (Lord Frites)
FrenchVFR
Golden Age Simulations
Golden Key Studios
Hangar Studios 713
1
Heaven Designs / Giba
iniBuilds
1
Iris Simulations
KwikFlight
LatinVFR
Leonardo
1
Lightsim
Lionheart Creations
LivToAir
Miltech Simulations
4
MScenery
Nemeth Designs
NextGen Simulations
Orbx
PILOT’S
PilotExperienceSim
RealPhysics
Red Wing
1
Roland Laborie
ROPROD Audiovisual
Sim Skunk Works
TFDi
TukanFlightSim
V.G.P
Virtavia
Virtualcol
Wing42
Ysim
Poll 2 | FREEWARE Developers
Pick up to 5 FREEWARE Developers
Alpha60
Ariebaba
Bagolu
Dave Garwood
Deejing
Delta Simulations (Destroyer121)
EZMods
Fly By Wire
Flying Fries (Lord Frites)
FlyNDive
FrenchVFR
Fsadnis
Got Friends
HCG
Headwind
Heavy Division
Horizon Simulations
MADolo Simulations
MrTommyMXR
OzWookiee
P McDonell & Philippe Wallaert
Rotorsim Pilot
Sal1800
Salty Simulations
The Flying Freja
Top Mach Studios
Touching Cloud
VrilleAPlat
WB-Sim / JPL (WeptBurrito)
WombiiActual
0voters
Extra Votes Table - FREEWARE:
FREEWARE DEVELOPER
VOTES
Denarq
2
Rob Richardson
1
B21
1
Orangener
Scheny
PLEASE DON’T CHEAT!
If you want to vote for any in the Extras Tables, please reduce that number of votes from your selection in the Poll!
The best devs combine not only an excellent product, but updates in a decent timeframe, good customer support and a good rapport with their customers and I’m glad that’s being recognised in this poll. Thanks for doing this.
Excellent idea but I hope we don’t offend anyone.
Maybe a short comment section? But i am sure that you don’t want it to get too complicated.
I am going to vote in a separate post.
Thanks! Of course that is not my intention and I hope things remain civil in here.
I was limited by the number of slots I can use in the main poll BUT everyone (literally) is there in the Extras table so I think that’s as fair as I could make it. Anyone can vote for anyone and I’ll work it out.
Not sure what you mean? This IS the comments section…??
Sorry but I am still a fumbling fool in forums.
My feeble explanation.
If someone doesn’t get a certain amount of votes, do they feel bad. They shouldn’t.
My routine in the sim is very narrow so I have a very limited knowledge of developers and their products. So I can on vote on what I know.
When I vote I would like to say that I appreciate all developers but I only know a few.
I don’t think so. From what I see all developers have a great deal of respect for each others productions.
If anything I feel that the developers that are motivated to strive for improvement of their own skills would relish the challenge of rising higher if they can. Whilst also understanding that there is always a bigger fish.
Of course a lot comes down to budgets, scope, team size and subject matter.
In that regard, some developers are shooting way above their weight already and they know who they are and where they stand already. And should be rightly very proud of themselves and what they have achieved.
But at the end of the day it comes down to attitude and genuineness, which can be achieved by anyone wishing to do so and is not tied to budgets, team size and specific aircraft projects.
I’m sure the added functionality afforded by the new systems available in FS2024 will excite and strongly motivate some developers to push the bar even higher. I also know that most teams are not so isolated and “protective” of their own knowledge so a lot of research, knowledge and learning is shared between them anyway.
It’s not a cut-throat competitive environment like you might see in other areas of industry and gaming entertainment specifically I think. That’s the impression I get anyway from all I’ve learned since getting deep into this hobby!
This is well said, @Baracus250 and I see the same thing. This sim has really brought out a lot of great projects with many developers really pushing the boundaries of what the sim can do. I think the brilliance of Microsoft was to make it so open to modifications. They understood that the majority of content would come from the community.
