Aggregated Long-term test add-on reviews for flight simulators, built from forums, videos, store reviews and the developer's own claims.
3.5/5 · September 24, 2026 · 14 min read
A €5 turbulence dataset for 50 Greek airfields, accused of doing nothing and of doing far too much. Both camps are right, and the install explains why.
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.
3.6/5 · September 18, 2026 · 13 min read
FlyTampa's legacy Athens is a superb 2011 airport frozen in 2015 — and it costs six euros more than the MSFS rebuild of the very same field. Here is why.
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.
3.1/5 · September 13, 2026 · 12 min read
Taxi2Gate’s LFPG for P3D v4 is simMarket’s 34th best seller of all time — yet the same store sells a newer LFPG at the same €26.99. Who should still buy it.
3.1/5 · September 8, 2026 · 13 min read
HiFi’s X-Plane 12 weather engine still nails METARs and turbulence, but X-Plane 12.3.0 took over its two best features and HiFi has shipped only one fix since.
3.0/5 · September 7, 2026 · 12 min read
A 108-profile GSX Level 2 pack for P3D that was free for years, now €9.99, unsupported since 2023 — and still the best pushbacks in legacy flight sim.
3.8/5 · September 6, 2026 · 14 min read
FlyTampa's three-airport St Maarten has the best Maho Beach anyone has built — and it never left Prepar3D. What EUR 31 buys in 2026, and who should still pay.
3.5/5 · September 6, 2026 · 13 min read
FS2Crew Fenix A320 Edition costs €29.99, but it needs the £49.99 Fenix A320, so the real entry price is about €88. Twenty-eight sources, 2022 to 2026.
4.2/5 · September 4, 2026 · 12 min read
MSFS 2024 ships with its own seasons, so what does Bijan Habashi's €17.95 add-on actually do? We read 22 sources to find the answer, and it surprised us.
3.1/5 · September 3, 2026 · 13 min read
JARDesign quietly shipped a new Ground Handling Deluxe in January 2026, told nobody, and now has real rivals. What 22 sources say about a EUR 16 plugin.
3.3/5 · September 2, 2026 · 14 min read
JustSim's Vnukovo is a fine 2018 airport frozen on Prepar3D v4 at an unchanged €20.90. Sixteen store reviews, none since April 2020 — who should still buy.
2.6/5 · August 31, 2026 · 13 min read
FSBuild 2 still ships current AIRAC data and still starts on Windows 11, but its developer went quiet back in 2019 and SimBrief now does the job for nothing.
3.7/5 · August 31, 2026 · 12 min read
MK Studios’ Fuerteventura 2017 is simMarket’s #15 all-time seller, was free for a day in 2020, and stops at P3D v4. Whether €15.00 still buys enough today.
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.
3.3/5 · August 27, 2026 · 11 min read
WideFS7 still does its one job perfectly after 25 years. The question is whether you need it at all — and John Dowson has answered that in public, twice.
3.3/5 · August 25, 2026 · 12 min read
EnvTex still makes the best skies in Prepar3D, but TOGA parked the studio in November 2025 and the P3D v6 port never arrived. Is €21.00 still fair in 2026?
3.6/5 · August 25, 2026 · 14 min read
EnvShade costs €5.60, ranks ninth all-time on simMarket and has not shipped an update since June 2023. Which Prepar3D pilots should still buy it in 2026.
3.8/5 · August 23, 2026 · 12 min read
FSUIPC4 is simMarket's best-selling product ever, frozen since 2021, still €24.99 for a simulator that costs $4.99. Who should actually pay for it in 2026.
4.2/5 · August 21, 2026 · 10 min read
FSUIPC6 still runs everything in Prepar3D, but its twenty-year support archive vanished in January 2026 — and the free tier covers most buyers anyway.
2.9/5 · August 19, 2026 · 13 min read
Half of FS Traffic's Marketplace raters give it five stars, a third give it one. We read 29 sources to work out why the same add-on splits a room in two.
4.2/5 · August 19, 2026 · 13 min read
Twenty threads, changelogs and store listings on GSX Pro for MSFS 2020 and 2024. No competitor, four years of free updates, and a ramp that still costs frames.
3.5/5 · August 17, 2026 · 12 min read
Active Sky 2016 for FSX has not been rebuilt since October 2021, yet its weather servers still run in 2026. Who should still pay EUR 29.99, and who should not.
3.8/5 · August 16, 2026 · 12 min read
Twenty threads, reviews and store listings on Active Sky FS for MSFS 2020 and 2024. Superb data, effects and tools — and a sky that is uniform to the horizon.
2.2/5 · August 14, 2026 · 13 min read
MyTraffic 6 still fills 8,262 airports better than anything on FSX and P3D. Its schedules stopped in 2015, its developer in 2017, and it still costs €29.90.
3.8/5 · August 14, 2026 · 12 min read
A four-year-old career simulator its developer says is no longer in active development, still rated 4.40 by 134 buyers. Is finished a virtue or a warning?
3.2/5 · August 13, 2026 · 13 min read
Nine years old, unpatched since August 2020, and still the best Kennedy for Prepar3D. The catch is a LaGuardia modelled from a 2016 concept that never happened.
3.6/5 · August 12, 2026 · 11 min read
Five stars for the sky, two for the software, from the same people in the same paragraph. What REX Atmos fixes for MSFS 2020, and what it never quite has.
4.3/5 · August 10, 2026 · 12 min read
One licence covers six simulators for €18.50, against FSUIPC7's €29.99 for one. The catch is the mandatory demo, which does not do everything the product does.
3.4/5 · August 9, 2026 · 12 min read
FlyTampa sell one Vienna at one price against five simulators. The FSX build froze in 2015, the P3D v4 build in 2019, and neither store page mentions it.
2.9/5 · August 9, 2026 · 13 min read
REX Weather Force is the METAR engine, not the Atmos renderer — frozen since June 2024, MSFS 2020 only, and still quietly working for the right buyer.
2.9/5 · August 7, 2026 · 12 min read
Three Chicago airports for €38, still at version 1.0 from December 2019 and still X-Plane 11 only. Midway now costs extra. What the six-year record says.
3.5/5 · August 6, 2026 · 13 min read
FlyTampa built the best Dubai in flight simulation, then never went back. It still runs beautifully in P3D — and it still shows you the airport of 2015.
3.5/5 · August 4, 2026 · 12 min read
HiFi ASCA is 19.99 EUR, last built July 2023, and does nothing under P3D v6 volumetric clouds. Who should still buy the FSX and P3D cloud pack in 2026.
3.0/5 · July 29, 2026 · 13 min read
A superb X-Plane 11 Vnukovo from 2018 with no XP12 build, dark aprons on the current sim, no community light fix, and a store page still quoting 2015 traffic.
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.
4.0/5 · July 18, 2026 · 13 min read
TechnoBrain's RJBB has been the definitive Kansai since 2022 and has spent four years fighting its own terrain. What that MSFS20/24 badge really means.
3.7/5 · July 12, 2026 · 12 min read
HiFi's P3D weather engine hasn't been rebuilt since June 2023, yet it's still the only one for Prepar3D v4 and v5 — and the servers behind it are alive.
3.7/5 · July 4, 2026 · 13 min read
LatinVFR's 2014 Roatán is simMarket's #25 all-time seller, stops at Prepar3D v5 and never reached MSFS — and the developer's own store sells it for $4.99.
3.9/5 · July 2, 2026 · 12 min read
Three shops sell three different builds of FSRealistic Pro. It is four years old, barely maintained, and still the version most simmers should buy. Here is why.
3.6/5 · July 1, 2026 · 12 min read
Silky smooth into a baking Las Vegas, then nearly breaking the wings off an E175 at Jackson Hole. Same add-on, same week — and there is a reason for both.
3.0/5 · June 15, 2026 · 11 min read
Taxi2Gate's original VHHH is fast, well built and eleven years out of date. On FSX it is still the best Hong Kong. On P3D v4 and v5 it is the wrong buy.
3.5/5 · June 9, 2026 · 14 min read
FlyTampa Amsterdam V1 is the only serious Schiphol for FSX and P3Dv3 — and the wrong buy on P3Dv4.5 and up, where V2 costs less than the legacy route in.
3.4/5 · June 4, 2026 · 13 min read
JetStream Designs’ KLIT is simMarket’s #28 all-time seller on nine ratings and four AVSIM posts. Frozen at P3D v5 since 2020, and now superseded in MSFS.
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.
3.1/5 · May 30, 2026 · 13 min read
Taxi2Gate built a fine Istanbul Atatürk in 2014, then never touched it again. The airport closed in 2019. The listing has not noticed, and nor has the price.
3.8/5 · May 23, 2026 · 15 min read
Aerosoft's EDDF took eleven months to fix its frame rates, then shipped Terminal 3 on the day the real one opened. It is still not native to MSFS 2024.
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.
3.2/5 · May 5, 2026 · 11 min read
Digital Design built a fine Pulkovo in 2018 and left it on Prepar3D v4 at €21.00 — dearer than their own MSFS and X-Plane 12 rebuilds. Who should still buy it.
4.0/5 · May 4, 2026 · 11 min read
FSUIPC7 keeps discontinued hardware alive and answers your support ticket personally. But most simmers never need to pay, and the interface is why people leave.