Still early in the month? Yup. Too early to get a vote in? Nope!
My current TOP 10 list
Just got back from being on the road for the past several days, leaf-peeping.
When I fired up my MSFS2020 Marketplace I noticed the 2024 top Platinum, Gold, Silver etc. sellers. It prompted me to wonder if you’ve ever done any correlation analysis with your Top 10 lists and the sales numbers (I assume) shown in those various marketplace categories.
Intuitively, (I’m really just too tired to dig deeper - just drove 1500 miles.) it appears to me that we Top Tenners are really quite an eccentric lot as at first glance, at least, I don’t see a lot of commonality with those Marketplace numbers. They seem to be very, very heavily tilted towards jets in general and jet-liners in particular.
Just curious…
Does the An-2 GNS version 2024 cold start properly? I could only use this aircraft if I started it on the runway. The standard version cold starts fine.
The majority of marketplace purchases are casual simmers
Hi, this is also what I’ve heard, the classic version works fine as long as you use the left/right tank + reset throttle trick. But the GPS one needs to start with everything on to work. But I know it only from other posts, didn’t fly the GPS one myself.
Well, they have a Comanche fetish, that’s for sure! 
I would assume most people here have bought and own at least one of the popular jetliners so they have also contributed to the sale numbers. But owning a 737 or A320 or another popular liner is just something that seems obvious and there isn’t much passion behind it, not like with discovering one of the dozens of dozens of not obvious unique craft out there that people want to share with others 
And in the end, the best sales don’t really mean the highest quality products. Same as with movies
October list
1 A2A Piper Comanche 250
2 Flightsimware Cessna 414
3 JustFlight Avro RJ
4 JustFlight Fokker F28 Pro
5 Wing42 Boeing 247D
6 FlightFX Cessna Citation X
7 FBW A380
8 Beechcraft D18 (denarq mod)
9 BlackSquare Duke Piston
10 Inibuilds A350
Replaced the (very good) XF11 with the Citation X, my first business jet.
Don’t forget also that the overwhelming majority of contact most people will ever have with aviation is being passengers on airliners.
Flying or even riding a GA plane is a privilege for very few. It happens on a few contexts (like pilot training) which are far less common or even attainable than taking a flight on Ryanair, United or Air France. It’s just so much more likely that someone falls in love with aviation through airliners.
Of course, a lot of the hardcore simmers are actual pilots, which means they are far wealthier than most casual aviation fans and have a lot of experience in GA. They’re also the taste makers in forums.
That way, browsing forums can lead one to believe that everyone and their uncle flies PMDG, JF, A2A and Fenix. The sales tell a different story, cheers
I like that. We could almost start another forum war here by exchanging your word “simmers” with another word (I won’t say it) that is somewhat more controversial, couldn’t we? 
But I think that you’re probably correct.
That’s a mouthful - for sure. Appreciate that!
I tried to make this point in another thread elsewhere on this forum, and that when you ask most members of the public to picture “a pilot”, they imagine an airliner captain rather than a guy in a plaid shirt and a baseball cap flying a Twin Otter. I got some very snotty replies and was more or less shouted down, but it’s true. After airliners, most people picture military pilots, then after that they might think of GA pilots. These people are the casual simmers, so airliners are indeed the main draw in many cases, because they are what they have experienced.
I will freely admit that most of my add on planes are ones I have either travelled in, seen flying close up, or in the case of the PA-38 Tomahawk, actually piloted (briefly!) It’s natural that people will want to fly the planes they have been on holiday in.
I assume you’re referring to the TOP 10’ers?
Actually, I may be an exception and don’t own the Comanche. As much as I respect A2A and their past reputation for high-quality sim aircraft, I just can’t bring myself to laying out that much money for it.
Taking another look at the 2020 Marketplace numbers, though, in retrospect it’s really quite inconsistent and confusing. For example the Comanche is listed in a higher category with fewer than 500 purchases while others with significantly higher sales figures are listed in lower categories.
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Anyway, thank you for your comment.
Do you mean the number of star reviews?
If you like the stock sim Bonanza, you will love the Capt Matto “G36 Improvement project” version. All the good things of the stock version without the horrible windscreen reflections and prop effects - this is just shockingly bad! - plus a few other nice improvements. It has not been updated for a long time and is still 2020 native but works well in 2024.
Highly recommended.
you’re good
I guess I kind of assumed, incorrectly, that there was a connection with the number of reviews and the number of sales. Assumptions! But I do know that you can’t rate an aircraft in the marketplace unless you have purchased it. So there is that.
But anyway, after further research I have found that there really doesn’t appear to be any strict criteria for placing aircraft in those particular categories (Platinum, gold, etc.). Just another rabbit hole, I’m afraid.
Bottom line:
I think a correlation analysis between this thread and the marketplace would be a waste of time. Sorry…
Thank you for the recommendation. I will definitely be checking that out, today! 
Still my ‘Go To’ airplane when I just want to hop in and fly.
I wish it had more liveries, but oh well…