Well about 90% of all those are FREEWARE, the other 10% is Payware, now I'm a Vintage type guy, so, I like the older Aircraft, rather it be props or Vintage Jetliners, such as the Boeing 707, 727 &737-100 & 200 series, so, I definetly wanted those puppies, Thank You Captain Sim !!!
For the props as far as Payware, I just love the Lockheed Constellation L-1049's and L-049's so, you guessed it I had to have Just Flights Constellations.
Then they came out with that DC6 and DC3 and well, I had to have those too and with 1 of those they threw me their Spitfire for Free .
I have 2 lionheart creations payware, the avilena and a small really cool private small jet.
and 1 boxed edition of the PMDG 747 Queen of the skies.
The WAR BIRD Sim P-51 Mustangs
A2A's Boeing 377's too I had to have.
FREEWARE : Literally aircraft loads of those,, in my hanger of all types, mostly Vintage type propliners from the 1940's 1950's 1960's 1970's era.
Jetliners, gotta love those Tin mouse 737's stages I & II.
and I'll never leave out anything from ol' Milton Shupe from any of this and any of his many wonderful aircraft !!!
Then we have the Great "ALROT", lord I can't prounce his name so, I just call him Alrot and his many fine Creations especially that Cessna Citation X he put out a while back.
Some of these Aircraft I copied and made an extra livery for, adding yet another aircraft to the list after I re-painted it in some fashion.
I've pulled Aircraft from all over the net from somewhere and added them to the sim and some I had to rework to get them to take, sometimes the CFG File entry would be wrong by 1 letter or something like that or a folder name off by a number or letter,,,
However, I do not keep all those aircraft in my Sim at once,, slows down the load up start time,,, I keep them in a very organized Folder and File structure according to what type of Aircraft they are, AWAY from the Simulator itself, like in a Fantasy Aircraft Hanger off to the side, when I want them I yank em' out, when i'm done they go back in their Fantasy Hanger.
I only keep about 40 Aircraft in the sim FSX at any time keeping all the default ones of course their dependent on each other as far as Guages, effects, etc.
Its taken me 2 years to acquire all these, wasn't done over night,, and NOT all of em' would work, so some got trashed after spending time trying to get them to work.
some of the port overs from 2002 & 2004 are the worst, tho the title may say their for FSX,, ya kinda gotta be careful and read between the lines with what your really getting and working with.
I coyuld never fly these types of AIRCRAFT I like to Fly in real life, and I'd never have that kind of money for those aircraft anyway, nor the great amount of land / property to erect such huge hangers to store all the ones I'd want nor the money for insurance and upkeep and fuel either - so this is the best for me,,, these Fantasy Flight Sim Aircraft that I spend hours upon hours flying or tweaking till sometimes 4am or 5 am in the morning and all day and all night too 7 days a week !!!
What else have I got to do ?? nothing !
I'm NOT married thankfully,, no kids.
Considering I spent over 20 years traveling all over the United States and Canada and a short stint over in the middle east as a driver hauling a 9000 gallon Tanker full of JT-8 Jet Fuel, all over the middle east while dodging bullitts and RPG's, I feel really really luck to be able to sit here on my Butt and do what I want to do for a while which is chill out and relax and fly Aircraft that i'd like to own, but will never happen.
I should show ya photos of my Tool boxes in my shop and all the automotive tools I have too and shop equipment I've got, that's another past time of mine,, workin on vehicles or Riding lawn mowers and Tractors !
I used to work for the other guy for over 30 years, I eventually gave up on that and started something myself on a whim,, Nope didn't get rich doin that either but I get by just fine, that and I sell mower parts and a few auto parts and Vintage Antiques on E-Bay often enough that I don't need to work .
took me over 12 years to be able to say I got to this point, wasn't an over night thing.
So how do I keep up with all those Airplanes - its simple - I don't my computer does !
I sleep late and work late, sometimes too late and play late.
Dats' my Story and i'm stickin to it
I have no ida why I still call myself JetRanger, when most of the time I Fly vintage Propliners ??
maybe I should call myself PropRanger ??
Have a good Day' !
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