My Top 5 Planes on Flightgear

I decided to do a bit of a geeky post: these are my top 5 planes on Flightgear. The order here also corresponds to how I would rank them in real life.

NOTE: Most of these do not come with the game. You have to download them separately here. Also bear in mind that this whole program is open source, so there is the occasional bug.

1)The Spitfire (pictured): It was a close run thing between this and the Harrier, but I have to go Spitfire as number 1. it's a legendary plane, and it's easy to fly on Flightgear once you get the hang of it. It's also realistic: you have to start it up the old fashioned way which I find really cool. And it produces a really authentic Spitfire noise.

2)British Aerospace Harrier (Harrier for short): The thing I like best is by far VSTOL (Vertical or Short Take Off and Landing). As the name suggests, it allows you to take off and land vertically, and it really does work in Flightgear. It's very useful in real life, especially when taking off from aircraft carriers. It goes fast and you can easily control it and perform tricks in it. One minor issue is that it's already moving a bit the moment everything has loaded, so you need to hit brake if you don't want it to go off into a field.

3) Boeing 777: Easily the easiest plane to control in Flightgear, Easy to take off in (just hit autostart) and to land. There is no obvious flaw with this plane either, as it comes with the game when you download it. You can also change the livery so you can have your plane in the colours of Air France or KLM.

4)MiG 15: Again, easy to fly, small but good fighter. Good plane to start off with. You don't need much runway to take off and the design of it is pretty cool.

5)Antonov AN-225: This baby is the world's heaviest aircraft and although she is cool to look at and the engines are massively powerful, landing and controlling the thing is probably extremely hard for somebody who has just started out on Flightgear. But even despite that it's a really good plane.