To celebrate the start of 2017, we take a look back at some of the “Best-of” 2016. Everything from aircraft, and scenery to utility and publisher of the year.
The selection below was carefully picked by the FSElite team, and we’re looking to YOU to pick the best from the best.
All the products below have been released or updated in 2016. We’ve narrowed it down to 5 per category to make the selection easier. Of course, some names may appear more than once, and we’ve tried to make it as varied and fair as possible. Not everything and everyone’s favourite is here, but hopefully there’s a good selection to pick from.
By submitting your name and email address, and completing the form, we’ll enter you into a competition to win some free Flight Sim merchandise!
Use the Google form below.
Voting will close on February 10th 2017 at 2030zulu!
(If it doesn’t work, then follow this link): https://goo.gl/forms/lO1TlpKKMsPklFU83
Here are the choices:
AIRCRAFT OF THE YEAR
A2A 049 Constellation
Blackbox Simulations Widebody v0.85 Update
Carenado D0228
FSLabs A320X
TFDi Design’s 717
SCENERY OF THE YEAR
Aerosoft Genoa
FlyTampa Amsterdam
Orbx Dubronvnik
Orbx FTX Germany North
Taxi2Gate Munich
UTILITY OF THE YEAR
Active Sky 16 / Active Sky CA
Airline2Sim’s 777 Cadet Training Program
NGX Cockpit Sound Immersion
REX Worldwide Airports HD
TOGA Projects ENVTEX
AIRCRAFT DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR
A2A
Aerosoft
Carenado
FSLabs
TFDi
SCENERY DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR
29 Palms
Aerosoft
FlyTampa
Orbx
UK2000 Scenery
UTILITY DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR
Airline2Sim
HiFi Simulatiopns
FSFX Packages
REX
TOGA Projects
PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR
Aerosoft
FlightSimStore
Orbx DIrect
Real Flight Shop
SimMarket
MOST ANTICIPATED FOR 2017
Aerosoft CRJ
Aerosoft A330
FSFX Packages Chase Plane (Full Version)
Orbx Innsbruck
PMDG 747 Queen of the Skies II
Surprised that the QW787 didn’t make the “MOST ANTICIPATED FOR 2017” section!
Yeah as are other people. It was in the running, but when you have to pick 5, the QW787 just didn’t cut it from the others. Plus we didn’t want to populate the whole list! Hope to see your vote!
Actually T2G EDDM is a 2015 release.
Another Category “Freeware of the Year” would have been nice also.
When I checked, EDDM came out in 2016, but happy to be proven wrong! 🙂 And yes a freeware category would be a fantastic idea!! I’ll keep that in mind for future stuff.
We’ll be planning some freeware stuff very soon.
It got released on 21.12.2015 (according to simmarket) and I am quite sure I bought it shortly after. Those christmas-releases are easy to remember and EDDM was quite controversial here in Germany 🙂
Thanks David. I honestly thought it was a 2016 release (January) from the research I did.
As people have already voted I will leave it for the time being but thank you for pointing it out. I will put a little caveat on the form to not confuse people.
Cheers and keep in tocuj
Surprised the IXEG didn’t make the “best of aircraft” list. out of all of them the ixeg delivers the most fun and immersion for me
Right now, we don’t have anyone on the team who use X-Plane extensively enough to provide real insight. If you do and would want to join the FSElite team, shoot me an email! I’d love to expand our X-Plane coverage and knowledge.
What about Narvik?!?!?