Reviews (by josh)

I had Bear Studios old FS2004/FSX MiG-15 for years but it had odd textures with a shaded underside which looked weird when rolling the plane. It also had the tendency to have the hydraulic system cut out for no reason. When the MiG-15 was re-introduced including an FSX native format I jumped on it. Gone were all the glitches and in were some spectacular textures including some U.S. civil registered birds currently flying! I was however saddened that the two seater was nowhere to be seen. This release cures that. This behaves and looks just as good as the single seater so I am happy with it with two exceptions. 1) There is one animation glitch on the two seater as during takeoff or landing, the wheels do not roll. Hopefully there will be a patch coming up to fix it. 2) (And this applies to both the single seater and two seater textures.) All camouflage planes seem to have the same skin effects as the natural metal birds so the camouflage paint appears to have a high gloss. I would assume these would be flat paint to hinder glare. Neither of these hamper the enjoyment of the, but it's enough to knock a star off but I still recommend this release. (I also do hope their MiG-17 will receive the same treatment in the future!!)

After many years of owning Bear Studios older (and at times, frustrating) MiG-15 offering for FSX I came across this. At first I thought it was just an update of the old offering for P3D with FSX compatibility. It is not. It is an all new offering and it looks great in FSX. Gone are the baked in shadows of the old version with modern texturing applied. The planes are all really shiny, which is good because a a few of the textures represent civilian or museum owned MiG-15s! They are N15YY from the Combat Air Museum of Topeka, Kansas, 079 from the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington, NX87CN from Planes of Fame in Chino, California, NX90589 from the Oakland Aviation Museum, Oakland, California and my favorite (as it was the first MiG-15 I had ever seen in person on the ground and in the air) PLAAF 4115. The version in the sim has no N number but the former Combat Jets Flying Museum MiG-15 N15MG (now residing at EAA in Oshkosh) represents this plane. Best of all, this sim had done away with whatever would randomly cut out your hydraulic pump in the old version! Now the two items that kept it from getting the fifth star. Textures. While they look great and are reflective and shiny when appropriate, the camouflaged aircraft are also shiny (as are flap internals, landing gear and wheel wells. Planes. While it's great that all the planes in this addon come under one entry in Sim Objects (vs the myriad of offerings in the old one) there is no two seater offered this time around. I can only hope that comes later along with a similar update for their MiG-17!