Curtiss T-32 Condor II. The first dedicated sleeper aircraft capable of sleeping 12 on overnight flights. Also used on floats and skis on one of Admiral Byrd’s Antarctic expeditions. Just look at it’s goofy little nose.
A decent 737-100 and 737-200.
Until now, there have been no real Italian warbirds in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. Why is that? Is there some kind of bias against Italy? No developers — not even IndiaFoxtEcho Visual Simulations or Sim Skunk Works — seem to be making one. Why? Maybe because they think they would make little money? Maybe because of a lack of data?
But not even a post-WWII aircraft like the Fiat G.59, which still exists today and is directly derived from the famous Italian Serie 5 fighters. Data for this aircraft can definitely still be found, and I’m sure it would be a great success.
There are still preserved examples, documentation is more accessible, the cockpit is relatively simple, it has a very “warbird” flight behavior, it is a famous historic Italian trainer aircraft, and it uses a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine — which is very appealing commercially.
This whole situation is really strange, very strange. I’m starting to think that there may be some hostility toward Italians from foreign developers.
A bell 412
A Fuji FA-200 Aero Subaru and Falcopn 6X (was a wishlist item in 2024).
Flightsim Studios do a 727-200 which has a very good review from ‘Into The Blue Simulation’
A career mode ready Boeing 737 300 series with all the variants, a career mode ready 737 500 series, and career mode ready 737 400 series, (I’m well aware about the css product, but the price is way to high for that product
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FSS have made an okay 727-200 (and -100, Super27). Not a 737-200.
No decent 737 jurassic is available for MSFS yet.
Oops, typo on my part, I’ll change that
There’s a complete absence of British turbo prop and turbo fan aircraft from the 1950s and 1960s available for MSFS 2024. The Vickers Viscount, Vanguard, and VC10 were all world leading, cutting edge commercial airliners in their day, as was the Bristol Britannia. There’s a massive gap for Developers to fill here!
I would love to a Just Flight (or equivalent quality and system depth) version of all of those …plus a Avro / Hawker Siddeley HS 748.
Yes, any and all of these British aircraft would need to be study level for MSFS 2024. Fenix, PMDG, JustFlight, and all the other high end Developers would be capable. We live in hope!
Italian Vulcanair V1
GARMIN G500 COCKPIT SYSTEM:
DIGITAL PRIMARY/MULTIFUNCTION DISPLAY GARMIN GDU 620, ONE
AHRS , ONE
TRANSPONDER GARMIN GTX33 MODE S
AUDIO PANEL WITH MARKER BEACON AND INTERCOM GMA 350
GTN650 COMM/NAV/GPS AVIONIC UNITS, ONE
GNC255 COMM/NAV, ONE
JEPPESEN NAVDATA FOR G500
STAND BY ATTITUDE MODULE MID-CONTINENT
A BAC One-Eleven!
A Boeing 247D by another dev that doesn’t get abandoned unlike with the Wing42 one.
MSFS 2024 is a fantastic platform for bringing back to life aircraft that have now disappeared from our skies. Personally, I hate modern aircraft because the glass panels, while making piloting much easier, annoy me. I trained on a 1979 DR-400, and it was a pleasure to fly without all that computer technology. Furthermore, long flights on a 737 MAX, 777, or A330 bore me profoundly; aside from monitoring numbers, there’s nothing to do. I love short flights between islands and small airports, under VFR or IFR. It’s more dynamic. So, there’s a lack of simple, fast aircraft for this; apart from the Embraer 110, the poor Saab 340, the NAMC, and the King Air, there isn’t much else. In terms of military aircraft, the Mirage 3, the SAAb Draken and Viggen, the F-8 Crusader, the F-100 Super Sabre, etc., are missing—all difficult but very enjoyable aircraft to fly. As for helicopters, I love the BO-105 and the Alouette 3 and Lama; they are fantastic to fly. But the Sykorsky H-19, H-34, SH-3, etc., are sorely lacking. I hope that developers will move away from ultra-high-tech devices and return to real aircraft, flown by real pilots.






