Silly or no?

rmacttu wrote:

I often prejudge the quality of a freeware aircraft by taking a gander at its file size. Is this a worthy method, outside of having to give every aircraft a "trial" period?!

I suppose file sizes could be inflated easily by paint jobs, no?

You're on the right track. Additionally, frequently the freeware a/c won't include a panel or a soundset which reduces the filesize dramatically considering that a decent soundset for a jetliner can easily exceed 50MB - panels can be quite large to.

Having said that, it doesn't render the a/c unusable as the sound and panel will be aliased to one of the a/c you already have in your hangar, namely the default MS aircraft. Any more questions regarding this matter, don't be shy to ask.

rmacttu wrote:

I often prejudge the quality of a freeware aircraft by taking a gander at its file size. Is this a worthy method, outside of having to give every aircraft a "trial" period?!

I suppose file sizes could be inflated easily by paint jobs, no?