I give up on a plane when I notice that visual glitches simply never get patched.
And if months and ten patches later very obvious glitches are still present in the cockpit (especially if it´s glitches that can be fixed with the right development tools like 3D studio max or Photoshop in SECONDS to make the flight deck flawless - but simply get ignored on purpose and because of complete indifference and carelessness about the own aircraft DLC project)… the plane is getting stored in the hangar.
Forever
My first big fail was the Lionheart Creations Trinidad. LC came highly recommended by long-time simmers so I was pumped to try it out. I didn’t like anything about it. This was the first 3rd party plane I bought that I truly felt ripped off.
As other have stated, the Twin Otter makes my list. Put it in the hangar day 1, waiting for a sound fix. Then it was waiting for other fixes. Now it’s sold to another dev, we don’t know who, and those of us who bought it from Aerosoft are kind of in limbo. We don’t know who owns it, what their roadmap or timeframe looks like, or anything. So many great float plane options have come out since.
Lionheart generally was pretty good in the FSX/P3D days. The Piper Pacer and Fairchild 24 were great addons. Unfortunately they failed to update and improve their models for the modern age of MSFS, now they are sadly very subpar-level addons for the price.
I have exactly the same problem. I X-Plane it fly’s amazing, on the numbers and is a dream as you say. In MSFS its terrible. And this is why I love the new A2A offering, the first plane in MSFS that actually trims correctly, does not bounce like a rubber ball into the sky or ground when it is trimmed out just because of a small gust, it goes up or down and gently settles back to trimmed level flight as real planes do.
Every other plane in MSFS its a fight for the trim every few seconds, It really puts me off. I hope they fix this in 2024 and get the SDK out early so we can have immediate updates for existing planes on release.
There is no middle ground with the plane in MSFS its either up or down, its a shame.
The Geebee R2. The cutest plane, but impossible to take off. The only way to take off in it is to use an empty field, it’s extremely hard to keep it straight, which apparently is like the real world aircraft.
Probably 60% of the planes i have purchased i dont touch anymore, but without naming names, i’ll bullet-point the things that have made me uninstall a plane.
. Bugs that are serious enough to make the plane almost un-useable, and which the developer has not fixed many months after release. This is an extremely rare occurence, in fact it happened only once, as most bugs i can deal with, but there was a plane so flawed (it’s still well rated in the MSFS store) that i had to put it away.
. A truly horrible viewing ability from the cockpit. Again, there aren’t that many planes that suffer from this to the extent i can’t tolerate flying them, but there are a few that feel like i’m flying a tank and looking out of slits, it ruins the experience for me because i love the view more than i love the plane itself in every situation.
. Planes that don’t have windows/doors that open, there’s something about that situation which really ruins a plane for me, as again it marrs the illusion of being in a real plane, it feels like more of a cast-iron toy. I think it’s rather unfair to people who bought the base game, that almost all of Microsoft’s planes have very little interactability (is that a word?) in this area.
You know you can change the default cockpit view to anything you like rigght? And I’m not suggesting creating a custom view, I’m talking about changing the default one.
If you don’t know how to do it I can help you.
Boeing 307 Sratoliner after it bacame obvious I can’t uncage the compass when starting cold and dark.
Bug like that is inexcusable for a payware. I’m done with this plane.
I’m surprised I didn’t see it on the list yet. Boeing 247 from Wing42. Was awesome when it came out, but did have some acknowledged bugs. But overall, I thought it was really enjoyable. Then the dev utterly disappeared, possibly for good (go read conspiracies if you desire) and flying it is just awful. I can do the same thing the same way at the same temperature and cook the engines one time, and have them run forever another time. So random and inexplicable. Check in every now and then to see if the dev has surfaced. Nada. I haven’t flown it in 12 months.
That particular issue is often less a bug and more related to the need to stay ahead of the aircraft and predict and react to changes before they happen rather than when you see changes in the gauges. This is an aircraft where sometimes when oil pressure etc starts to move too far the damage is already done.
However that is beside the point, the dev is uncontactable even by the people contracted to work on the original release or knew him personally. While currently still flyable it is extremely unlikely it will work with MSFS 2024 as there is no one at the helm.
Yes it was fun zipping across the Atlantic, but in months and months I only got it to capture an ILS correctly ONCE. I studied manuals, I followed hints and tips on various forums… everything. Seemed a lot of people had similar issues. And I’m no novice to using airliners with older systems, or even previous study level Concordes in older sims.
I always fly with real world live weather, so the final straw was after a flight from Barbados descending into Manchester with terrible weather and zero visibility and being unable to detect the ILS. Circled for a while troubleshooting, but no luck.
Everything else in the autopilot worked like a dream, but it just could not detect an ILS. Or if it did detect it, it would never capture and follow it.
I buyed Big Radial Nieuport 17 because chip and was curious to have a WW1 airplane. I was sure that after 2 weeks I will never use it again.
Finally I fly it almost every time after I finish my flight with another plane but still have 20 minutes free before back to real life.
In other hand, I was sure I will fly a lot the Microsoft PC6 but because I prefer the BN-2 the PC6 is in maintenance 4 ever…
I have not consciously benched any of my (too large) collection of aircraft but many have fallen by the wayside. I am a hopeless case where every new airplane that catches my eye inevitably ends up in my virtual hangar but there is always something new and shiny just around the corner.
I do yeah, some planes it doesn’t matter where the camera sits, the windows are still tiny, the giant engine and dashboard in front still covering an ungodly amount of view. With planes like that i find myself using 3rd person camera from the outside, and i don’t want to fly that way. The spirit of S.t Louis is of course an extreme example, but there are others that are pretty bad too.
If you are shorter like I am you have that issue even in a real world 172 that has an inordinately high dash for a basic GA and raising your seat height just makes the pedals hard to reach.
I can only assume the 172 inherited the 170 taildragger dash and in a tail dragger you never get to see much anyway so no one cared.
