Military AI Works

Thought this might be a fun topic. What is your favorite flyable military planes?

Here are mine:

F-16C and D made by Kirk Olsson
P-51D made by Warwick Carter
Mirage 2000 N made by Jonathan Hilaire and Roland Laborie
Mirage F1 made by Kirk Olsson
F-18 (E, F, and growler version) made by Team FS KBT
P-3 Orion made by Team FS KBT
C-130 Hercules made by Captain Sim

(All of these are freeware planes except for the C-130)

It was a challenge trying to justify mine since I've only flown 2 of these in real life. These are all payware except the default JetRanger and the Super Hornets.

Mine are:

T-37B by Project Sierra Hotel

AH-1W Super Cobra by AlphaSim

V-22 Osprey by AlphaSim

CH-46E Sea Knight by AlphaSim

AV-8B Harrier by Sigma Simulation Products

F/A-18 C and mostly D by Dean Reimer Aerial Foundry

F/A-18 E mostly F by Team FS KBT

T-2C Buckeye by Razbam

A-10 Warthog by Aerosoft

F-14A Tomcat by Iris

Other consideration for US Navy TC-12
(Beechcraft King Air B200) repainted as by Aeroworx

Default Bell 206B Jetranger (repaint as US Navy Th-57B)

F/A-18E/F - team FS KBT
F-15C/D - Iris
F-16 - Kirk Olson
B-1B - Alphasim
B-2 - Alphasim
HH-60 Knighthawk/Seahawk/PaveHawk/Jayhawk - HoverControl
F-22A - DSB Design

For pure fun flying I recommend both the F-86 from Kirk Olsson and the Hawker Hunter series from Dave Garwood.

T-37B by Project Sierra Hotel
F4E/F by Cloud9
Legendary C-130 by Captain Sim
Legendary 707 by Captain Sim
A-10 Warthog by Aerosoft
Multiple Alphasim Aircraft
HH-60 Seahawk by Aerosoft

Who has time to actuall "fly" in FS9???

Who has time to actuall "fly" in FS9???

I noticed that recently lol. In my VA we have one month from the last PIREP to file another one or get kicked out, and usually I would do at LEAST one flight a week. Two weeks ago I remembered I had'nt flown in a while, checked my status and the day I checked was my deadline, OOPS!! . Just did a quick hop from KBUR-KLAS to stay current, crisis averted, position kept

I used to fly Kirk Olsens F16 with the Airshow panel and do mid-air refueling.

But I've been on this Flanker kick with AI and I found an awesome Su34 Super Flanker at Avsim.

Dr. John van Kampen did and update of the model by Yosuke Ube.
This thing is awesome and you can get a radar guage that tracks AI.

A-10 by Alphasim
F-15 by Coral Flight Dynamics
F-16 by Kirk Olsson
E-3A by Historic Jetliners Group
KC-135 by Historic Jetliners Group & Mike Stone
KC-10 by Mike Stone
C-130 by Alphasim & Mike Stone
C-17 by Mike Stone
B-52 by Yaetsu Yoshimitsu
EA-6B Prowler by Rick Sasala
F/A-18 by Daisuke Yamamoto

My list is short in terms of true favorites though I try to fly any new "true FSX" freeware that comes my way.

1. Iris F-20 (the plane that should have filled the non-Sov-aligned skies of the world IMHO)
Alphasim AH-64D Longbow
2. Kirk Olsson's F-16
3. Dino Cattaneo's T-45C
4. MSFSX Acceleration F-18 (gotta love trying to land on a moving carrier in near 0-0 conditions!)
and 5. the default MSFSX Bell 206 (finally learned how to fly helo's in this beast - then "upgraded" the fde to "realistic" flight dynamics and my bruised ego is still recovering!)

Ford

The First Class Simulations Hurricane, Real Air Spitfire and Just Flight Vulcan are all superb.

Aerosoft F-16
this thing is niiice!

Kirk Olson's F-16
Dino Cattaneo's F-14
and the Israeli F-15 by coral.

I left out my F-16C and D by Kirk Olsson and F-16 by Lago.

I will probably soon acquire the new Aerosoft F-16 for FSX.

I'm hoping to one day get the F/A-18E being developed by Vertical Reality.

Sad but true, most of these I have bought and installed and only run up the engines and look at them from time to to like the F-104 Starfighter by CaptainSim. It's sort of like a model collection I guess.

MIKE JG wrote:Who has time to actuall "fly" in FS9???

I don't fly much either. In a 2 week time period I may only fly 3 times. I am usually fixing AFCADs, installing AI, checking out/installing new scenery.

And when I do fly I fly all the military planes for fun. I fly the airlines and business jets serious.

I'm a bit surpried that no one has mentioned the F4 yet! I like flying the IRIS FGR2 and the Alphasim Lightning F6.

Yep, I had the Cloud 9 F-4 and it was one of the jets that I would mostly look at and listen to while sitting on the ramp or just in the pattern.

Short list,

PC-21
OV-10
T-28, all by Piglett

AlphaSim

H-2
H-60
AH-1
Both '53's
RA-5

Mike Stone

C-5
C-17
C-130H/J

David Maltby
VC-10
BAC1-11

I have others but these are the one's I fly the most.

Alpahsim

Short Belfast
C-130K
C-5
Tu-160
B-52G
XB-70
SR-71

Samdim Design Tu-95

Lago Tornado GR4

FSDS Vulcan
FSDS TSR2

Iris

MiG-29
F-15I
F-35

Kazunori Ito Rotodyne in home made RAF camo!

John

Alphasim C-141A/B......WORLDWIDE.....yes it's retro and no longer a part of U.S.A.F. inventory but alot of fond memories of this aircraft for me...miss the mighty starlifter!!!!!