Actually, if you look at the pilot in the ED video just posted in the F-18C thread, they don’t look that much different. Maybe a smidge.
I’m getting flashbacks to when I first got FSX and spent more time downloading add-ons (most of which I either haven’t used once or turned out to be disappointing) than I did flying. I try to resist, but it ain’t arf ard!
Got some stuff from x-plane.org and hope it is good enough to not put me off. Some of the pictures remind me of early FSX/late FS9 freeware - cartoonish, but usable for the moment, until I can afford to get some decent payware into my hangar. Payware-wise atm I’ve seen two I like the look of - the Super Tucano and the CRJ-200, though the latter is a bit pricey for me. I have so many payware add-ons for FSX and P3D, but I bought 90% of them in sales! 
Here’s a great freeware plane for ya’…
Also these (not sure if it is fully XP11 capable):
http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/27748-mitsubishi-zero-a6m21/
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The zero uses to be payware. The skis came with a payware purchase. I think seebee was payware too. They became’gifts’ which is why they’re now free downloads from the org
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@Sine_Nomine how’s the RW Design Twin Otter for X-plane(10)? I think you’ve got actual stick experience with that aircraft if I recall your christmas flight correctly?
That’s great, thanks! I have the LET 410 in FSX, too - like it. I also have the Seabee and have it on my download list for XP11 - can’t carry much, about a box of sandwiches I think, but is a fun little plane.
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Overran the runway and now he’s a boat.
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Hey…it’s not my fault that the Air Force wasn’t forward thinking enough to make a float variant…
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Fantastic! I guess I now know my next XP aircraft 
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I’ll more than likely end up buying that, too - Twotter has always been a favourite. When I first started I used PAD’s freeware ones extensively on VATSIM UK, which did the job nicely until I got Aerosoft’s model.
I used to get virtual lessons in the PAD Twotter from one of the bosses/ pilot instructor guys at CixVFR.
edit - wow! Just had to run downstairs in the middle of posting that - Sally B was flying over our house! Only second time I’ve seen her - wasn’t quick enough with the camera, though 
rather frustrating LINK
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Well it’s worth it, a very fun aircraft.So much lift in it!
Great sale! I couldn’t resist the discount on the Aerobask Panthera v3
Initial impressions are really good 
Even has a darn impressive builtin GTN 750 for the price.
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Yes indeed, but the new XP11 FMS isn’t terrible. Not great, but better it used to be. It would be great if there was a good payware FMS out there.
Dang…those shots are beautiful…! Aerobask makes great stuff…
I downloaded the Dundee scenery I saw in the screenshots section - all well and good. However, it requires 9 libraries to function correctly and the downloads from x-plane.org are excruciatingly slow. I just did the first one - 3D People - which is 84MB and it took ages at around 250kB/s.
I was downloading from there last night and the max I got was 1.9MB/s, so I gave up, hoping that today it would be faster, but no - it’s actually slower now. I went to the next required lib and it’s 557MB. At this rate I won’t be bothering with x-plane.org, regardless of what they have. Really frustrating.
It’s usually one of Open Scenery library’s:
They usually put that at the bottom of the post, that these libraries are included in there.
I think the org limits download speed and total downloads per day for free downloads to save bandwidth. Simviation does the same as do a few other FS websites!
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I get 450 KB per second on a good day! I’d be ecstatic with 1.9MB per second… ah, the joys of living in rural Texas.
Yeah…the LIB situation with X-Plane is less than ideal. It would be really neat if there was some sort of a la carte download process that only grabbed all of the items from within a span of libraries that you need for a specific scenery build. Because most of the time, even though you have many MB of scenery objects in a library, you are generally only using a few per scenery. Oh well…what we have is pretty darn good right now…although yes, it is inconvenient initially. Tom Knudsen used to have a pretty cool all-in-one installer that allowed you to install all of the major packages at once in a fairly hassle free way, but due to bandwidth constraints, he had to stop hosting it:
http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/30252-x-plane-library-installer/
Pretty nice looking turf runway scenery for a laid back weekend of GA flying…Rheine Eschendorf, Germany (EDXE) (freeware):
Looks like a good place to practice glider approaches!
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Thanks for the info.
Yes, I have used Simviation before. I would wait until I had a large list of stuff I wanted and then pay for a month and download it all. Last time I got every mission/flight in their FSX library.
However, I am very cautious with those pay sites for downloading freeware. I don’t have a problem with it, but two sites have speed or download restrictions unless you pay - I paid and the transfer speed remained awful. I even paid one multiple times and every time it was very slow or broke off halfway through ‘large’ downloads (CombatAce). They aren’t normally considered large at around 500MB, but when the speed is 1-200kB/s anything over 20MB is large!
Anyway, I am now using a second computer for the downloads. Slow downloads can be a pain, but it’s being unable to use my PC that is the worst thing, one of the reasons I kept my old PC when I upgraded.
Edit: Wow! Thanks for the openscenery link - what a difference! 8.3MB/s - that’s more like it! 
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