   X-Plane is a flight simulator for personal computers
produced by Laminar
Research. X-Plane is packaged with
other software to build and
customize aircraft and scenery,
offering a complete flight simulation environment.
X-Plane also
has a plugin architecture that allows users to create their own modules,
extending the functionality of the software.
X-Plane is the world's most comprehensive, powerful flight simulator, and has
the most realistic flight model available for personal computers.
Welcome to the world of props, jets, single- and multi-engine airplanes, as
well as gliders, helicopters and VTOLs such as the V-22 Osprey and AV8-B
Harrier.
X-Plane comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, sporting aircraft
from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the
supersonic Concorde and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie. X-Plane comes with about 40
aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several hundred more
are freely downloadable from the internet.
X-Plane scenery is world-wide, with scenery for the entire planet Earth AND
MARS! (thanks to the Mars Orbiting Laser Altimeter, which mapped that planet's
elevation) You can land at any of over 18,000 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! Real weather conditions can be downloaded from the
internet, allowing you to fly in the actual weather that currently exists!
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.
While X-Plane is the world's most COMPREHENSIVE flight sim, your purchase
also comes with Plane-Maker (to create your own airplanes) World-Maker (to
create your own scenery), and Weather Briefer (to get a weather briefing before
the flight if you use real weather conditions downloaded from the net).
X-Plane is also extremely customizable, allowing you to easily create
textures, sounds, and instrument panels for your own airplanes that you design
or the planes that come with the sim.
X-Plane's accuracy (in flight model), scope (in aircraft and terrain
coverage), versatility (in aircraft type and weather conditions), add-on
programs (in aircraft and scenery editors), user-customizability, downloadable
aircraft, and downloadable scenery makes it the ULTIMATE flight simulation
experience for Macintosh AND Windows platforms.
Featured Programs:
- Airfoil-Maker (to make airfoils for your aircraft if you
would like to make your own planes).
- Plane-Maker (to make your own
planes and helos if desired)
- World-Maker (to make your own scenery to
fly in if you like)
- Weather-Briefer (to get a weather-briefing before
your flight if desired)
- X-Plane (the actual flight
simulator)
  
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