Stop that! I just know that as soon as I start flying Xplanes with a yoke I will have to get one… One of the considerations (although very minor) for getting the Fox and Velocity was a joystick 
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To be honest, I think a decent stick is a lot more versatile… you can fly bush planes, fighters, experimentals, helicopters etc. A yoke is definitely nice to have though for the aircraft that have them IRL. For the types of aircraft I enjoy flying in the sim, I use a stick 90% of the time. Ironically, all the airplanes I have flown IRL had yokes, with the exception of the Grob 109 motor-glider which I flew for maybe 20 hours.
Oh, and beware of…me. I earned my ‘Bad Influencer’ title…
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made my day 
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didnt have time to test yet, but looks nice
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LOL…Awesome…You are a Lucky Man
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blast from the past
didnt know there was quite detailed F-14 for XP9/10
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comin soon Grumman F7F Tigercat
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plus this one
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X-Plane 12 is out of Beta!
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this means that the excuses for some devs not yet update their addons to xp12 is over 
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but XP12 was really a moving target in its beta.
here new XP12 version of this fine helo
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Hot Start’s Challenger 650 now upated to 1.7 which includes X-Plane 12 compatibility (free).
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I have been giving the new simpit a bit of a workout - especially flying XP11 in VR (pretty much all the Xmas fly in legs were 2D).
I had downloaded a freeware Vulcan and initial thoughts were “Nah, can’t see squat”, until I tried it in VR and it was a lot better, especially being able to glance out the ‘porthole’.
So I just bought:
It even includes the livery for what has to be one of the best zaps ever:
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I am sure you’ve answered this somewhere up, but why v11, @Harry_Bumcrack?
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Because I was unsure if a Commercial/GA sim would ‘float my boat’ and at the time it was half the cost of XP12 and MSFS. And XP12 was early access.
I had dabbled with FSX in the past, but due to the graphics I found it a bit underwhelming… the Xmas fly-in seemed like the perfect excuse to give it another go?
XP12 is now on my wishlist and I will probably upgrade to that in the near future, or maybe even wait until I can get it on special? XP11 is ticking the boxes for now.
Edit: Oh yeah, and wider variety of available aircraft for XP11 (such as the Vulcan). I have a short attention span and… ooh, shiny!
If/When my current ‘hangar’ can be flown in XP12 = downloading it now
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Makes sense. Everything I flew in XP11 works in XP12. Any decent module that came out in the last third of XP11’s run was designed to fly with the “Experimental Flight Model” checked. That model is essentially what is running under the hood of XP12.
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I’ve found a few snags with XP11 aircraft, mostly in turbine aircraft. The JF Arrows seem to work fine, other than elevator animation. I’ll slowly swap them out for their XP12 versions, but in the meantime, the default Baron 58 and C90B are pretty good.
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I am mostly in the club ‘what was designed for 11 works best in 11’. I have tried few planes and there were quite many issues - they sit quite low on the tarmac, as mentioned by chip the jets works but the fuel consumption, power are all off, etc.
and the last Experimental FM from 11 is not entirely the same as 12. plus during the beta it was further updated. even the Weight&Balance is quite different in 12.
was there done that. L29, S211, T38, F16 are all working properly only to some extent in 12. did some magic in Plane Maker for the simpler ladies like L29 and T38 but I went back to 11 to fly properly the F16.
just imo, for XP11 birds would stick to 11. unless there is dedicated update for 12 from the devs.
XP11 is much better option than FSX these days. the FMs are much much better in XP and unless you have invested thousands of gold into FSX there is not much reason to go back to it. been there done that 
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I have probably spent way too much time inside today & coincidentally probably spent more money than intended…
Based on the limited time (literally minutes) with the Vulcan. I really like the Thranda payware and because it has always been one of my favourite aircraft I couldn’t resist also buying this:
Along the way I have also picked up the RealityXP GTN 750, IL-22 Great Battles and Flying Circus Vol 1.
@Troll in combination with my new sim-pit. Piddle packs are now on order - The wife was correct, she’s never getting me out of it in a hurry.
Oh yeah. @PaulRix
The Vulcan is a ‘lot’ of a handful (definite operator error here):
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