Fa 18 Super Hornet Download Fsx
Hi all,I'm looking for suggestions for a good freeware or cheapish (absolutely no more than $20) payware F/A-18 Hornet. Now that I've gotten into the FSX version of carrier operations (I've been at it in FS9 for a long time, but I finally upgraded), I find that the acceleration F-18 just doesn't cut it for me, both from a flight dynamics point of view (I'm no expert mind you. Just doesn't seem realistic), and because you can't get any weapons on it (at least that I know of), and flying virtual navy missions with a clean plane is just weird. 
Evolution the remarkable history of a scientific theory pdf reader. In the past, I've had the opportunity to fly both the Aerial Foundry and Vertical Reality Simulations models for FS9 and fell in love with both, but the former is not available for FSX and the latter costs more than double what I can afford, so I guess I'm really hoping there is something which is approaching the quality of those models, but is either free or at least much cheaper.Thanks,Greg. You've got a few options, and these are some of them.One option would be to get a copy of Jane's F/A-18 off Ebay or some such, and then download the freebie upgrade for it that can be found on the net. A link to get you started on that quest: Another option would be to get Third Wire's Strike Fighters 2 and then add the freeware C-15 (i.e the Spanish F/A-18) to it. Here are links to the main software and a freeware C-15:Strike Fighters 2: C-15: Staying with FS, you could get the Abacus Flight Deck 6 add-on, which has both the F/A-18C Hornet and the F/A-18E Super Hornet amongst others included in it, along with plenty of missions to fly from the included Carrier that comes with it.
FSX F/A-18E Super Hornet. Download hits 1,352 Compatibility Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX) including Steam Edition & Prepar3D (P3D). F-18 Super Hornet Blue.
You can find that at the link below. It is ten Dollars over your target price, unless you have an earlier version of Flight Deck, in which case it is within your limit at 17 Dollars (as an upgrade), but either way it is a lot of bang for your bucks: Alternatively for FS, there is the CS F-18 or the VRS one. I have to be honest, I'm not sure you can do better than the default Acceleration Hornet in your price range. Within the MSFS environment (which it sounds like you're looking for), I believe your only options are a few ported over FS9 versions, Captain Sim and the VRS F/A-18E. The freeware FS9 ports are free, but typically have very poor flight models (terribly overpowered) and limited function in the cockpits (as a result of some original gauges not working in FSX).
The captain sim is really just a new external visual model. It does have weapons, but they can't be deployed, so other than showing up in screenshots they really aren't very useful. The cockpit is directly aliased to the Acceleration Hornet (i.e., it's identical) and the flight model has at best been only mildly tweaked (I think it's actually the same as the Acceleration Hornet).
I just can't personally recommend this given that the only change from the Acceleration Hornet is and F/A-18D external model.You know about the VRS, but price can be an issue.Truthfully if you can't afford the VRS, I think I'd recommend looking at all the freeware tweaks for the Acceleration Hornet. They have been adding a lot of functionality to the VC (including working ILS needles for moving carrier TACAN stations) and cleaned up the ground handling and flight model some.
The best place to look for these is probably here: FSDreamTeam made the Accleration Hornet for Microsoft and the 'unofficial support forum' has quite a few tweaks (and is fairly active). The lack of weapons is the only real issue that I think remains unresolved. Truthfully the only model with realistic weapons deployment is the VRS (all others either have no weapons, or they're static parts of the visual model) and even then, it's only the deployment process.
They still have no effect within MSFS.If you're not absolutely set on an F/A-18, Dino Cattaneo makes a very nice freeware T-45C and F-14D. They both are very nice VC's and visual models with flight dynamics that are pretty accurate (at least as good as the default Acceleration Hornet, probably a bit better) and systems modeling on par with the default Acceleration Hornet. The F-14D does have weapons included in the visual model, but like all others except for the VRS F/A-18E cannot be deployed.