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EHM-1500 Jim:
Guys, wonder if you can help me out. I am thinking about buying one of these two add-ons to increase the realism a bit. I have no experience of either FS2crew or FSPassenger and would appreciate any comments good or bad from any of you who use either of them.
Can you use both of them together??
Cheers all, Jim

EHM-1633 José:
I have FSPassengers and it works great. Not only fills with passengers your plane, but also, it allows you to create and manage your own VA.

EHM-1821 Javier:
FSpassengers is better as it is not just for 1 aircraft but for all that you have, although you may have to search for some extra payload models...

EHM-0654 Murray:
Jim, to give you much the same answer I gave Matt Haywood:-

They are very different beasts and "test" your abilities in two different ways.

[*]FS2crew provides you with a full virtual crew. The FO does all the things an FO is expected to do. When he's the PM, he does all the PM checklists, when he's PIC, he does all the PIC thing (and you are expected to do the PM things). Passengers do not feature in the FS2Crew world. The cabin crew "look after the passengers (announcments and that's it. It doesn't have "real" passengers like FSP does.)

[*]FSPassengers turns things around and makes your flying necessarily passenger oriented. Yes it has virtual crew, but they don't do stuff to aid you overly as a pilot (sure, you can turn on "Cabin crew look after the passenger automatically, but that just makes them serve food/drink as soon as you turn off the seatbelt signs) You are graded, and "paid" on the flight experience as seen by the passengers.[/list]

In theory, it would be possible the run both FS2C and FSP on the same flight (you'd want to turn off one of the two's sound). FSP will make you think about the flight experience a lot more, planning journey times and fuel loads; arriving at the gate within a few seconds of schedule and with naught but your reserves. FS2C will make you a better pilot in command, following the checklists and interacting with the FO just like they do in real life.

Now, as an owner of both, I get more use out of FSP, but I bought FS2C for the default 737 recently (so I can use my PM setup with it) and I'm using it any time I'm in the B738 now, and remembering why I loved it in the first place - the workload drops out through the floor with "someone else" doing half of everything.

EHM-1821 Javier:

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Didn't you ask this question not that long ago Javier? ;)
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did i?  maybe i forgot...

i dont rememer thinking of buying FS2crew

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