Your Current TOP 10 Aircraft

[DestinedWind530]

Missed a month but My latest list for December:

Britten Norman BN2 Islander [BlackBox Simulation]
Shorts SD-3 Series [BlackBox Simulation]
Cessna 182RG [Carenado]
Beechcraft Bonanza G36 Improvement Project [Asobo]
Cessna 310R [Blackbird Simulations / MilViz]
Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet G2 [FlightFX]
Piper PA-28R Arrow III/IV (NA and Turbo) [Just Flight]
Piper Comanche 250 [A2A Simulations]
Cessna 172 Sykhawk [Asobo with bagolu improvment mod]
Cessna 152 [WB-Sim / JPLogistics]

[MPowerslave]

I’m with you, I love flying the Islander as well! It’s been in my top 5 forever, well since baracus250 started this wonderful thread anyway.

I haven’t posted a top 10 in awhile, may have to change that up.

[UnsealedKarma36]

Thank you for keeping this thread going and summing up all the votes. Perhaps the grand finale should be a vote for aircraft of the year?

Here is my top 10 before I splash out on the F-14 and PC-12. Highlights are the updated C-160 Transall, the quirky Latecoere 631 and the wonderfully crafted Avro Vulcan. Lot of great addons as of late. The Dash-7 was a disappointment though.

Top ten:
Azurpoly C-160 Transall

Miltech V-22 Osprey

MS Latécoere 631

Justflight Avro Vulcan

MS Antonov An-2

Big Radials Norseman

MS DHC-4 Caribou

Azurpoly Fouga Magister

GKS Mig-21

Inibuilds Bf-108 Taifun

Old list from the spring:

1. Dave Garwood’s Hawker Hunter.
2. Aerosoft Twin Otter.
3. Redwing Super Constellation.
4. Microsoft/Mike Johnson Savoia S.55.
5. Big Radials Grumman Goose.
6. Miltech Simulations V-22 Osprey.
7. Blacksquare C208 Analogue overhaul.
8. Microsoft/Aeroplane Heaven DC-3.
9. Blackbird PC-6 Porter.
10. Microsoft/Oliver Moser Junkers Ju-52

[Baracus250]

@UnsealedKarma36

Thank you for keeping this thread going and summing up all the votes. Perhaps the grand finale should be a vote for aircraft of the year?

And thank you all for continuing to submit your votes and interesting messages!

As for this — I have an idea I’ll try and get up and running tonight. I’ll shout about it here so fret not, you won’t miss it!!

[Baracus250]

Hey folks - please go to this topic and place your SINGLE VOTE for the Aircraft of the Year 2023: Pilot’s Choice Award!

POLL & VOTE: Your Single TOP AIRCRAFT of 2023!

Hey all. I am preparing the ‘2023 Charts Awards’ for my topic here, as I did last year: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/your-current-top-10-aircraft/507204 I will have a new award for “Pilots Choice” which will be taken from the winner of the Poll below. This is to give a chance of an Award to some newer releases that have not had time to creep up the main charts yet. Unfortunately, Polls can only have 20 items, so I’ve had to make some decisions and include a few that were not mentioned …

[VanDisaster]

Some of those choices look rather like they didn’t appear this year

[Baracus250]

I didn’t say they appeared new this year. It is the Aircraft of the year - can still be released ages ago, just very good lol

For example the Arrow is still being listed in the top 3 of the monthly votes here.

[Ariana2022UK]

Product of the year without a doubt is the A2A Comanche because what they have done is simply groundbreaking.

I have voted for it for this reason even though I don’t own it and have no intention to buy it.

My personal favourites being the FSR500, FI Spitfire & Fenix.

[BegottenPoet228]

I voted for the FSR500. The Wilga and of course the Comanche were also top contenders. But the FSR500 is the one I enjoy the most - right now.

It’s reasonably fast, handles beautifully, sounds wonderful, is value-priced, and Raul (the developer) is showing the rest of the industry the way to handle product support.

[BarbedClient514]

Yeah that’s a bit of a problem with an end of the year vote for the aircraft of the year. The new shiny toys have an advantage. No way to avoid it, just how it is

[BegottenPoet228]

Agreed. To me that means the aircraft are getting better and better as time goes by. That’s a product of a large and informed user base, along with the mechanics of capitalism, and a dedicated and talented group of developers.

Maybe we could have a poll specifically for freeware?
I know there are free planes out there that surpise us with their depth and level of enjoyment.

More work for you Baracus250.

[Baracus250]

@BegottenPoet228

and Raul (the developer) is showing the rest of the industry the way to handle product support.

He’s a true one man army. I love his attitude. He is so fast to answer literally any question from anyone in any channel, no matter how maybe unreasonable or silly or RTFM the question is - and I think he actually enjoys it too!

@BegottenPoet228

Maybe we could have a poll specifically for freeware?

Yeah good idea. I will knock something up lol

[BegottenPoet228]

@Baracus250

He is so fast to answer literally any question from anyone in any channel, no matter how maybe unreasonable or silly or RTFM the question is - and I think he actually enjoys it too!

Unless like me you try to make dumb jokes. (Disclaimer: I don’t have to try hard for my jokes to be dumb.)

[Ariana2022UK]

On the freeware note now that we have so many top quality aircraft to choose from I feel a lot of them are now getting lost in the top ten list.

Also maybe not completely fair to put freeware aircraft up against payware.

Because you love lists so much maybe it could be worth having a separate payware & freeware top 10.

[Baracus250]

I don’t love them that much! Not gonna be rounding up another monthly list that is for sure haha

[Baracus250]

New Topic for FREEWARE & Improvement Mods voting is up and running here guys - go vote !

VOTE: Your Top FREEWARE or Mod of 2023

In parallel to my Poll & Vote Topic for Best Aircraft Product of 2023 (if you have not voted there yet, please do!): POLL & VOTE: Your Single TOP AIRCRAFT of 2023! …here we have a Vote for Freeware & Mods for free / default Aircraft ONLY. You can only pick ONE to vote for. IMPORTANT INFO I have made an attempt at starting the table off, but as there are so many aircraft I am certain I have missed something great. Please comment and leave your ONE VOTE if your choice is not on the list alread…

I will take the winner of that for a special award in the 2023 Charts Ceremony at the end of this year!!

[PipsPriller]

Although a watcher on the thread it’s been months since I submitted a list, mainly due to not having had much recreational sim time.

(If any of you are low n slow / bush fliers who also have an interest in history I have been working on something that I hope you might find interesting. More details in Jan…).

So, from (mostly) the north of England to Utah, Laos and PNG via racing at Burning Blue’s Thruxton my current list looks like this.

1. Ant’s Tiger Moth
2. Blackbox’s Bird Dog
3. Flying Iron’s Spitfire
4. Dave Garwood’s Hunter (single seat)
5. Got Friends’ Wildcat
6. Big Radials’ Norseman
7. Ariebaba’s Bronco
8. DC Designs’ Stearman
9. Blackbird’s PC6 Porter
10. Flight Replicas’ L4 Grasshopper

And with a nod to Spinal Tap and @Baracus250
11. Wombiiactual’s Baggage Buggy

Something that has also dawned on me about my buying pattern and the list is that I am drawn to good quality renditions of aircraft I built as model kits as a kid.

Is it just me or are there other UK simmers of a certain age recreating their childhood collections of Airfix, Matchbox and Revell models through the sim?

[Wings596]

@PipsPriller

Something that has also dawned on me about my buying pattern and the list is that I am drawn to good quality renditions of aircraft I built as model kits as a kid.

Is it just me or are there other UK simmers of a certain age recreating their childhood collections of Airfix, Matchbox and Revell models through the sim?

Ditto … certainly resonates with me!

And - more “jingoistic” than I would have thought I’d be - anything designed / built in the UK, and / or in RAF service. DG’s Hunter is the perfect “boyhood dreams” example.

I would love a Canberra … even if it has to called a B-57!

[Funghie]

Repeat of last month for me please. Thank you for the ongoing amazing work in this thread.

[MPowerslave]

Voted. Thanks for putting up a poll @Baracus250 !

Had to pick the Cessna 414, what a joy to fly. Its still my “go to” plane in the sim.
There are some other great planes to choose from on the list, some tough choices.