It seems to me, after having been in this FS "business" since the days of SubLOGIC (yeah, I know - shutup Dusty
) that even today, with FSX being the best ever for bush flying, and developers like Orbx and FSAddon's (Tongass) giving us some of the best bush flying areas ever, we bush pilots are still getting ignored by most of the aircraft developers. Yeah, we do have some good machine, but we still don't have an Otter, Turbine Otter, Aztec, Shrike Commander 500, or King Air (C90 or B200). I get the feeling that if we were to get on the forums and ask for a new Airbus 330, complete with FMS, we'd have one in 6 months. But for YEARS we've been begging for the above machines (and the 185, which we finally have now, along with the Beaver and Twin Otter), and nobody is willing to take it on, even though one would think that the developer (as long as it was a good developer) would end up raking in the cash. Either I'm dead wrong about that, or they haven't figured that out yet. People have even been on Carenado's forums requesting those airplanes, and in the end we got a Cessna 340. Not sure how the sales are going for that, but I don't think it's a huge hit. The Baron is nice, but there's a Baron in FSX (not great, but not that bad either). They did the 208, which isn't bad after they finally got most of the bugs worked out, but again, there's one in FSX. Last time I checked, there was no Aztec (nor ever has been), C90 (never has been), Shrike Commander (not sure, but there sure isn't one for FSX), etc. I wonder if it's time we started emailing developers (not going on the forums - they don't read those things) demanding equal time? I'll bet you if we demanded an A330 with full FMS, we'd have one in 6 months. We have enough of those. Thoughts?