Aircraft reviews

• Fly the Maddog X for P3D: still on sale eight months after Leonardo retired it

  2.7/5 · September 22, 2026 · 15 min read

  Leonardo froze the Prepar3D Maddog X in October 2023 and retired it; simMarket still sells it at €80.00 unmarked. A superb aeroplane and a bad purchase.

• FlightSim Studio E-Jets 190/195: lovely to hand-fly, still unable to hold an altitude

  3.1/5 · September 17, 2026 · 13 min read

  The prettiest Embraer in MSFS is still in Early Access after 32 months. Superb model and sound, no VNAV on the default build, and an autopilot being rewritten.

• F70 Professional: one model instead of four at the same price, and the better aeroplane

  3.9/5 · September 14, 2026 · 14 min read

  Just Flight's F70 costs the same as the F100 but ships one model and 11 liveries against four and 18. When that is still the right buy, and when it is not.

• ToLiss A320neo: the best Airbus systems in X-Plane wear a three-year-old skin

  4.4/5 · August 28, 2026 · 17 min read

  The ToLiss A320neo has the deepest Airbus systems on any desktop sim and an exterior, cabin and sound set reviewers have called dated since launch day in 2023.

• Mi-2 Hoplite: the best-built helicopter in MSFS is also the one you buy half-finished

  4.2/5 · August 22, 2026 · 14 min read

  Digital Aeronautics' debut Mi-2 is the best-modelled helicopter in MSFS 2024, and at EUR 34.99 it is still an early-access build with its best parts promised.

• F100 Professional: the doubt raised in 2022 was about the autopilot, and it was right

  4.0/5 · August 20, 2026 · 11 min read

  Just Flight's Fokker 100 is gorgeous, deeply modelled and eight weeks old, and its autoflight is unfinished. Who that rules out, and who it really doesn't.

• FlightSim Studio Super 27: the best thing FSS sells, and you cannot buy it alone

  3.9/5 · August 18, 2026 · 11 min read

  The highest-rated add-on FlightSim Studio makes, and one of the least-examined we have reviewed. Eleven months old, two store reviews, no independent review.

• Fly the Maddog 20th Anniversary: Leonardo can no longer find an MD-80 to record

  4.0/5 · August 16, 2026 · 12 min read

  Leonardo's MD-80 rebuild has the deepest systems in MSFS and the shakiest exterior in its price bracket. Twenty sources, December 2025 to August 2026.

• MB-339: the study-level version promised in 2020 shipped — for a different simulator

  4.2/5 · July 22, 2026 · 13 min read

  IndiaFoxtEcho's MB-339 quietly outgrew its own store page across five years of free updates, then stopped dead in May 2025. What that means for buyers now.

• PMDG 737NG: eight months, one visual overhaul, and a sentence about coffee

  4.1/5 · June 1, 2026 · 9 min read

  We read two dozen reviews, forum threads and PMDG's own product pages on the 737NG for MSFS 2020 and 2024. The systems are still the best available. The launch, the pricing and the WASM crashes are another story.

• F-35 Lightning II: the warning label on every store page is four years out of date

  4.2/5 · May 16, 2026 · 12 min read

  IndiaFoxtEcho's F-35 has taken 40-plus free updates since 2022, yet every store still warns that its radar, DAS and RWR are not simulated. 22 sources read.

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