X-Plane
X-Plane is a comprehensive, powerful flight simulator,
sporting a very realistic flight model. It is packaged with other
software to build and customize aircraft and scenery, offering a
complete flight simulation environment.
X-Plane is 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 simulation.
X-Plane is used in non-motion and full-motion flight
simulators for flight training.
X-Plane
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Price
$50
Developer
Laminar Research
Website
www.x-plane.com
Requirements
CPU: 2GHz
RAM: 1GB
Disk Space: 70GB
DVD-DL drive
Graphics: 32MB VRAM OpenGL hardware accelerated
1024x768 + monitor
Support:
Links
to Resources
Selected
Reviews:
blogspot,
About.com
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Features include:
- Blade element theory
- Subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics
- Models fairly complex aircraft designs, including
helicopters, rockets, rotor craft and tilt-rotor craft
- Scenery for the entire planet Earth between -60 and +74
degrees latitude
- Land at any of over 18,000 airports
- MARS scenery
- Failure-modeling, with 35 systems that can be failed
manually or randomly
- Plane-Maker, create your own airplanes
- World-Maker - create your own scenery
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