MSFS-quality aircraft addons?

[PhilipsCDRW]

Hi, I've just ordered XP, it'll take a little while for it to drift over here from America and then negotiate the postal strikes in the UK...

I used to use FS a lot, and my favourite aircraft were Rick Piper's HS748, David Maltby's set of British jet airliners (we used to make them here...), and the Dreamfleet 727. All aircraft which require you to think about managing the electric, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems, and navigate with old VOR-era instruments (the HS748 even has a DME with a needle readout, rather than numeric - I've never seen any other FS aircraft with one!). I used to run around the airways on VATSIM in them until a hardware failure made me stop sometime last year :-(

Anyway, are there any broadly similar aircraft for XP? I've heard good things about the Mu-2, does it simulate the systems well? Also, is there a site which reviews XP addons like this site used to do for MSFS?

I'm really hoping to start developing panels for aircraft in XP - I started doing it in FS9 before I ran out of graphics cards...

[loki]

Check out the X-Plane.org forums.

http://www.x-plane.org/

[marcoman]

Many Iris planes are available freely on their site.
Ants Tiger Moth is excellent.
The Tucanos are vg.
The Chipmunk.
Dutch SpitfiresMKIX
Hurricane IId
JBK Vickers Viking or Viscount
Spartan
LIC Aeronca or Decathlon
The Basler version of the DC3 is outstanding
Enjoy
Marc

[marcoman]

My precedent post was for FSX not xp. oups....
I have sp 9 and 10, and do not use them at all!!!!
The visuals are not acceptable to me.
I fly vfr in FSX and FS9
Sorry to barge in this thread. It was unintended, but the name of the thread MSFS quality airplanes got me!
Marc

[MdMax]

Anyway, are there any broadly similar aircraft for XP? I've heard good things about the Mu-2, does it simulate the systems well? Also, is there a site which reviews XP addons like this site used to do for MSFS?

I'm really hoping to start developing panels for aircraft in XP - I started doing it in FS9 before I ran out of graphics cards...

Hello and welcome !

If you want to find nice add-ons, start with X-Aviation.com, XPFR.org and X-Plane.org.

Some add-ons are fare more advanced than FS2004/FSX add-ons. You'll even find working circuit-breakers like in the Sequoia Falco and the weather radar like in the Yak-40, a very good FMS like in the CRJ-200.

You can find reviews here:
http://xsimreviews.com/

The visuals are not acceptable to me.
I fly vfr in FSX and FS9

Yes, most people think X-Plane is still looking like X-Plane 7, but where in 2012 now and it's time to wake up.









http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ZC94HCtcg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jocv2Ozq-c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si91jtu7B4Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixJBEsN9mQk

Happy flying !