2004 Best Freeware

[chrisgoca]

2004 is gone, time to the awards!

Rules:

1)Has to be Free
2)Cant be repeated once posted
3)Must be great quality
4)Explain it
5)Grade it (0/100)
6)What you dont like

[chrisgoca]

I choose Kirk Olson F-16. Thats the best plane in my opini

[LoneEagle]

Miltons Howard 500

It is a 100

It needs no explaintion.

Dislikes? Not enough time to fly it.

http://www.simviation.com/fs2004props25.htm

http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/quite2.jpg

[Joe_D]

John White and FSDZigns' Lockheed "Connie" is one that comes to mind.

[Rocket_Bird]

Steve Grant's Dehavilland Beaver,
I find it one of the most fun to fly VFR planes, the flight model and characteristics is awesome.  Only thing it doesnt include is a panel, but theres lots of good DHC-2 panels out there designed for it.  Also it doesnt have openable doors as I can tell.  But other than that, its simply awesome.  

95/100

[sir_crashalot]

Project Fokker V2.

Comes with many liveries, good panel, flies great.

I give it 90/100

[Gus_2004]

I would have to agree with Joe about the Connie.

My favorites for aircraft would include:

1. F4U-7 Corsair, Guy Hulin, et al.

2. Junkers 52, O. Fisher, et al.

3. Hawker Hurricane II, Robert Sanderson, et al.

4. The Vistaliners 727-200, Vistaliners.

5. F-18 Hornets, Daisuke Yamamoto, et al.

6. American Airlines Boeing 777-223ER, MelJet.

7. Boeing B-52H, Yanco, KBT, et al.

8. China Airlines Boeing 747-409 'Dreamliner Livery,' POSKY, C. Vincent Cho, et al.

That should do it for aircraft. Overall I don't have many criticisms to say about the above other than some minor FDE quirks.

Helicopters:

1. McDonnell Douglas [Hughes] MD500D, Peter Nemeth, Tamas Nemeth, et al.

2. McDonnell Douglas [Hughes] MD500E, Peter Nemeth, Tamas Nemeth, et al.

For scenery:

1. Texture Switch/Texture Art, Yngve Ramsen.

2. FS Sky World 2004, ver. 1.0, FSW Group.

3. Colorized Default Scenery Textures, Steve Kempf, 11/03.

4. FS2004/FS2002/FS2000 70m Global Terrain Mesh, connverted and compiled by Stephen Rothlisberger.

AI traffic packages:

1. Real Airlines AI Traffic (Europe) by Chester, et al.

2. Real Airlines AI Traffic (USA) by Chester, et al.

3. The PACAF Military AI Collection Part 1, by Dave O'Brien, assisted by Rob Danser

Utilities:

1. AFCAD ver. 2.21, Lee Swordy.

2. Traffic Tools ver. 2.02, Lee Swordy.

That's a lot of gigabytes worth of creative and talented work.

[legoalex2000]

1) The Mh-68A Mako (heli)

2)It has
   >great manuverability,
   >retractable gear,
   >nice graphics,
   >as well as i like USCG

3) Grade: 90/100 A

4) The only items i dont like is
   >fact that the cockpit zooms out to .50
   >The USCG Logo wasnt written very clearly
   >There is not side sliding doors, just the cockpit

[commoner]

I have always been a big fan of the Cessna 172 and when I found the Avalon skin my search for something special was over..........the "beat up" appearance which must be typical of thousands of this popular aeroplane is superbly done in my opinion and I give it 99.999

[FS_Pilot]

My favourite Helicopter at the moment is Brian Whitelegg's Agusta A119 in VH-CFO colours operated by Careflight, Australia.

[zcottovision]

Project AI.

Fills the skies with loads of real world airlines and makes FS considerably more realistic.

9/10!

Downsides: not enough airlines, but there are still LOOOOOOADS to choose from.

[chrisgoca]

This is supposed to be just "awards" please dont distract the topic since the focus will be lost.

Remember to grade the adon and post the link.

This is very good for people new to FS2k4 who want to get the best quality of ads.

[kevin2003]

Everyone has their favourite aircraft but we all take off and land somewhere.I have never got the hang of  AFCAD so all my my A.I. traffic and my progressive taxi lines end up going over grass and through terminals when landing or taking off from third party addon airports. NO MORE!

For me the best free addon is the Airport Enviroment  Upgrade Version 6 (aeu6.zip). Proper ashphalt and concrete runways, with skid marks.Great taxiways with proper markings and much improved buildings. No AFCAD problems.

If you think about it,what is the point in having a replica of an airport you have never seen before? I'll never download and install a third party airport again!

10 out of 10!

kevin

[legoalex2000]

so, who/what won?

[Rocket_Bird]

Meh, i say if the community likes all these different addons, they should all be winners