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X-Plane is the most comprehensive and powerful flight simulator available for the personal computer. X-Plane simulates anything that flies: from single-engine fixed wing props to multi-engine jets; gliders to dirigibles; helicopters to spacecraft to VTOLs such as the V-22 Osprey and AV8-B Harrier.
X-Plane includes scenery for the entire continental U.S. You can land at any of thousands of airports, as well as test your mettle on aircraft carriers, helipads on building tops, frigates that pitch and roll in the waves, and oil rigs. Weather is variable from clear skies and high visibility to thunderstorms with controllable wind, wind shear, turbulence, and microbursts. Rain, snow and clouds are available for an instrument flying challenge, and thermals are available for the gliders! X-Plane can download real weather data from the internet, allowing you to fly in actual current conditions!
Features:
- X-Plane has the most realistic flight model available for personal computers. It comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, simulating aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic SR-71 and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie.
- X-Plane comes with 29 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several hundred more are freely downloadable from the internet.
- X-Plane also has detailed failure-modeling, with 35 systems that can be failed manually, or randomly when you least expect it! You can fail instruments, engines, flight controls, and landing gear at any moment.
- X-Plane includes Plane-Maker which allows you to create your own airplanes, and World-Maker which lets you create your own scenery. Also included is Weather Briefer which produces a weather briefing based on actual weather conditions downloaded from the net.
- X-Plane is extremely customisable, allowing you to easily create textures, sounds, and instrument panels for your own airplanes that you design.
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X-Plane is the most comprehensive and powerful flight simulator available for the personal computer. X-Plane simulates anything that flies: from single-engine fixed wing props to multi-engine jets; gliders to dirigibles; helicopters to spacecraft to VTOLs such as the V-22 Osprey and AV8-B Harrier.
X-Plane includes scenery for the entire continental U.S. You can land at any of thousands of airports, as well as test your mettle on aircraft carriers, helipads on building tops, frigates that pitch and roll in the waves, and oil rigs. Weather is variable from clear skies and high visibility to thunderstorms with controllable wind, wind shear, turbulence, and microbursts. Rain, snow and clouds are available for an instrument flying challenge, and thermals are available for the gliders! X-Plane can download real weather data from the internet, allowing you to fly in actual current conditions!
Features:
- X-Plane has the most realistic flight model available for personal computers. It comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, simulating aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic SR-71 and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie.
- X-Plane comes with 29 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several hundred more are freely downloadable from the internet.
- X-Plane also has detailed failure-modeling, with 35 systems that can be failed manually, or randomly when you least expect it! You can fail instruments, engines, flight controls, and landing gear at any moment.
- X-Plane includes Plane-Maker which allows you to create your own airplanes, and World-Maker which lets you create your own scenery. Also included is Weather Briefer which produces a weather briefing based on actual weather conditions downloaded from the net.
- X-Plane is extremely customisable, allowing you to easily create textures, sounds, and instrument panels for your own airplanes that you design.
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Excellent! More than a great game, too.
Been with X-Plane since version 5, and it has been at the bleeding edge of sim technology all that time. What has improved out of all recognition is the eye-candy, if you have the computational power to handle it. Now, don't get me wrong, Version 9 will run OK on our Sempron 2.0 single core with nVidia 6250 graphics. You just have to turn down the eye candy. Version 8 will run on the same machine with pretty pixels, and Version 7 could run superfast with the eye candy mostly max'ed out. Then we discovered Linux, and Version 8 would run 30~35% faster in SuSE Linux than under Win XP, so problem solved! No need to upgrade the hardware - although it meant ditching Version 7 which is Win only.. We were using X-Plane to develop a real aircraft for a customer. As part of the development we built flying scale models of the project, and measured their performance against X-Plane model simulations. As near as we could determine the major performance measurements were over 96% accurate in X-Plane 8 when compared with reality. That is seriously useful. Of course, X-Plane comes with Plane-Maker, so we had the tools to build our model sims to fly, and Airfoil-maker to generate airfoils, World-Maker for World making (well, airports mostly) and so on. All for the one price! Compared with other sims we have tried, this is the boss.
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