Most realistic for my Xmas Cash

[Gary R.]

Howdy howdy.

[BiggBaddWolf]

The only payware I have is GA aircraft, but any of the planes by Carenado are great, I dont have the Mentor though, but everyone says it is a good one  ;D
I have the FSD Piper Seneca V, it is a great aircraft, and I have the Dreamfleet/Flight 1 Cessna 310, and Piper Archer both of which I like very much, although the 310 seems a bit hard to land....

I also have the Eaglesoft Beechjet 400A/Premier 1 package. I like both of those except for the fact that the panels are kinda hard to read, the Beechjet panel is a bit better than the Premier 1 though.

Anyway those are what I have, and my feeling on them, so good luck with whatever you choose  ;D

[Gary R.]

Just ordered last night from flightsimcentral.com the CRJ experience.  I was in the 5 day shaded area on their delivery map, lol.  Hopefully it will come by friday because my wife is working saturday and I'll have time to install it and start training with it.  With complex training worthy airliners I always like to do a lot of touch and go's and systems training flights before actually simulating a revenue flight.  I guess just like the real airline pilots do in the full motion sims, lol.  I am considering the meridian also.  Especially if the full RXP Garmin is included.

[Nexus]

while the CRJ is a nice addon, it's far from a complex one, I wished I saw this thread earlier, then I'd recommend the ERJ-145 (developed by the CRJ team, Feelthere), the PMDG 737 or the upcoming 767 from Level-D Simulations.
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[BiggBaddWolf]

I may be wrong, but it is my understanding that the only one released with the RXP is the Boeing, but the Beechcraft A36 is gonna have it, but isnt released yet, but I could be wrong, maybe someone else can clear up for you, whether the Meridian has it or not  ???

[Gary R.]

I just checked over at flight1 and the Meridian does include the full RXP Garmin and Meggit gauges.  That suprises me because many of us have panel editors or are otherwise sharp enough to borrow gauges from any panel and use them in any other panel.  Unless of course RXP has the Meridian installation coded so it will only play with the Meridian panel which I know is done with most  commercial add-on FMC replications.  I know, I've tried to de-compile and re-use more than a few and havn't gotten any to work yet.  Turns out that the CRJ is on back order from flightsimcentral, not expected til the first of the year so I substituted the 737 NG instead. Same price.  I just wanted something that would fit on shorter flight plans and smaller runways because I rarely have enough time to do 2-4 hour flights and I don't like the performance decrease that big airports cause.  I was going to substitute the Dash 8 professional but I noticed they had 2004 compatibility as limited so that scared me off. I haven't gotten my confirmation email yet so I don't know if 737 NG is on back order or not also.