Aggregated Utilities 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.
2.9/5 · September 21, 2026 · 11 min read
SimSoft AirportInfo 2.0 is a tidy standalone airport-data window at EUR 5.95 — but it connects to no simulator at all, and its developer has gone unreachable.
3.3/5 · September 20, 2026 · 11 min read
It puts an animated first officer in the Fenix A320 right seat for €19.99 — but nothing loads until you have spent €108.29. What the record actually shows.
3.0/5 · September 17, 2026 · 15 min read
Aero Fire Global 24 kept its free-upgrade promise for seventeen months. It has also gone a year without a patch while its own developer sells a better rival.
3.4/5 · September 15, 2026 · 14 min read
The MSFS 2020 build of FS Fire costs the same €12.99 as its 2024 twin, is half the size, four patches behind, and has no cross-grade. It is still the pick.
3.5/5 · September 11, 2026 · 12 min read
LiveCrew bundles copilot callouts, cabin PAs and voice checklists into one cheap app. The cabin half works; the voice recognition, three months on, does not.
3.2/5 · September 10, 2026 · 13 min read
AVX Sorter charges €12.99 for a job free tools have handled since 2020. The features are real, but the public record behind them is barely six weeks old.
3.1/5 · September 9, 2026 · 14 min read
A €22.99 tablet panel for an A380 that costs nothing — and the same developer quietly gives away a free panel for the very same aeroplane. Our verdict.
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.
3.5/5 · 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.
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.
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.
3.6/5 · August 29, 2026 · 13 min read
FSRealistic+ is good; the purchase is the problem. It needs a $30 ChasePlane licence that is still experimental and still has no VR. Twenty-one sources read.
3.7/5 · August 27, 2026 · 13 min read
FS Fire has the deepest feature set in MSFS 2024 aerial firefighting, a €12.99 price and six store ratings in total. All of them complain about the flames.
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.
3.4/5 · August 24, 2026 · 15 min read
A first-time studio ships the best weather briefing app on MSFS 2024, and the exact same depiction ceiling as everyone else. What €24.99 really buys you.
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.
3.5/5 · August 23, 2026 · 11 min read
MSFS 2024 already ships a free FlightControlReplay, written by the same developer. What does €24 add — and what is still broken nineteen days after release?
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.
3.5/5 · August 20, 2026 · 12 min read
REX Atmos CORE looks superb once configured, and is miserable to configure. One software update in twelve months, and no public SU5 answer. Twenty sources.
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?
3.6/5 · 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.
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.
3.3/5 · August 8, 2026 · 12 min read
MSFS Bridge FS2024 costs five euros and sets up in minutes — but it only matters if you pay $115 a year for SkyDemon, and the free rivals now do rather more.
3.5/5 · August 5, 2026 · 12 min read
MSFS 2024 ships a dormant "Nearest Tower" camera with no button. FlightControlSpotter V2 sells you that button for EUR 8.67 — and freeware is closing in.
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.
3.4/5 · August 4, 2026 · 14 min read
FlightBag Pro is the best-looking electronic flight bag since AivlaSoft quit — but at v1.3.1 it reads SimBrief, not your simulator. What €16.72 really buys.
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.
3.9/5 · 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.
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.
4.0/5 · April 29, 2026 · 10 min read
inFlight fills the silence behind the cockpit door with crew and passenger audio that triggers itself, then bolts on a career mode and a scoring system. Promising, and barely reviewed.
2.4/5 · April 7, 2026 · 12 min read
AES Credits is one of simMarket’s biggest sellers of all time. It is also a currency for a tool last built in January 2017. What €12.56 still buys, honestly.
2.9/5 · April 4, 2026 · 12 min read
Active Sky XP is the best weather data X-Plane 11 ever had, still sold at full price in 2026, and it does not run on X-Plane 12. That needs a separate buy.
3.7/5 · March 28, 2026 · 13 min read
EditVoicepack is simMarket’s 29th bestseller of all time, ships no recorded audio whatsoever, and stops dead at Prepar3D. What €12.50 really buys you.