This was my favorite GA choice for years in FSX. I finally got the MSFS version on a rare marketplace sale and it is even better than ever!
Probably the best GA plane there is to myself and a lot of other people. Definitely the best single engine!
Every little detail is masterfully crafted with extreme attention to realism. It’s as close to having a real life plane of my own as is possible. Stacked with features and options, gorgeous textures everywhere you look. Only weakness is the audio is a little understated lacking some “oomph”.
However every switch, button or clickable item has real world sounds from the real plane. It’s an expensive plane for sure but you certainly get what you pay for.
A2A really gets it. They have the determination like few others to bring super realism and beauty to the sim world like few other devs. Get it.
I got it from the A2A store, and although I barely ever write reviews I think this one really deserves it. To make it short, I'm going to use Scott's words: It is a real plane in a flight simulator. It behaves like a real plane, it flies like a real plane, and it does the same calculation that nature does in real life. I'm not talking about systems, but about everything arround. To understand, I have an example: If something is dirty in real life, you can wash it. You could probably do this in any game that is based arround this. But what you cannot do in games but you can in real life is let it outside and wait till it rains. If you have tree leaves in you garden, you can pick them up. But you could also wait till the wind blows them away. A2A would simulate all of that, and they did with the Comanche. That's what makes this aircraft special and different from most other planes. But don't think that's all this can offer, it (obviously) has an amazing soundscape, extremely detailled model and textures, good fps and the other small things you could want like dynamic registrations, state saving, different altimeter units and so on.
If I could only have a single plane in the sim, it would be this one. Even if I'd only fly airliners. A real plane can do a lot of stuff, even if it's not specially designed for it, Same with this one, it does everything you ever need from it, no matter if someone has done it bevore, as nothing is scripted, but everything is organic, just like the real plane.