NZFF

Ok, I'm hopefully getting a new computer soon-ish, with FSX and flight controls etc. I was wondering, apart from the Service Packs, what essentials and must haves do you recommend?

Aircraft, scenery, new textures. Payware, freeware.

Topo with update for FSX payware
20 meter mesh .. payware
ez walk camera if you like different angles of cameras etc.. freeware
Timmos scenery for BOP and rotos freeware
and of course ,do i even have to mention Robin Corns realnz X ... payware/freeware
activeX weather payware
aerofile texture booster pack for X payware
FSXpilot,
aircraft is up to you ..

more to come when i think of it

Mike , did you have a link to ez walk camera if you like different angles of cameras etc.. freeware

Download for ez walk
Heres the topic i posted lastnight about it with some extra info http://nzff.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6012

Depends a lot on what you fly and where. I'm strictly a GA man meself, and neither know nor care about tubes. But in the GA world, I'd recommend:

* RealAir Scout/Citabria/Decathalon, and Marchetti packages (the Citab is practically my default aircraft)
* Eaglesoft for Citations and technically complex singles & light twins
* Aerosoft Beaver and Twin Otter

I stay clear of anything by JustFlight or Abacus, because it's usually pretty second rate.

For freeware: Dean Baunton's Fletcher, and anything with the name Rick Piper attached (even his FS9 planes work in FSX SP2!). There's an FS9 Cessna 150 that works great in FSX, but I forget who it's by.

Regarding scenery, it depends very much where you fly. Creator has already listed the NZ stuff. For US/Canada/Europe there's Ultimate TerrainX from Flight1, does the same job as Christian's Topo. Photo sceneries abound. Airports are a bit thin on the ground, but are starting to trickle. This is a good place to start your search for freeware scenery: http://walhalla.mine.nu/fsx.php

Yeah, I guess i should have stated it a bit more accurate.

I normally fly airliners, but have been getting into GA a lot more lately in FS9, and seeing as FSX has some pretty big visual improvements over FS9, I'll be doing a lot of GA flying for a while. So I'm not too worried. Do the Project Airbus 320's work in FSX? Also the SMS/Overland world airlines bundle? I was thinking about getting it for FS9, but I'm unsure if I should or not. Does it work in FSX?

I was told the default A321 in FSX handles like rubbish, how so?

I better be off to bed now, haha. Thanks for all your help too!

SMS/ Overland will, you'll need a few minor modifications. Someone has uploaded a "how to" file on avsim, so before you buy you could read that and see if it's something you want to do. It's not too hard
otw_sms_fsx_v3.zip is the file name over at avsim.

FSX A321 is shocking IMHO, although you can make it much more respnsive, it is probably too responsive, although IMHO if you fly with it for a bit you'll get used to it. Also check out www.flightsim.co.nz for repaints and some other stuff