X-Plane is the most comprehensive and powerful flight simulator software available for the personal computer.
X Plane is the most comprehensive and powerful flight simulator available for the personal computer. X Plane simulates anything that flies: single engine fixed wing props to multi-engine jets; gliders to dirigibles, helicopters to spacecraft to VTOLs such as the V22 Osprey and AV8B Harrier.
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, Sikorsky Blackhawk and Robinson R22 helicopter, Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic SR 71.
X Plane comes with 29 aircraft spanning the aviation industry, and history, and several hundred more are freely downloadable from the Internet.
X Plane scenery spans the Globe. 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!
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 customizable, allowing you to easily create textures, sounds, and instrument panels for your own airplanes that you design.
Add over 40 different helicopters types FREE!
Comes with the following Helicopters:
- Bell 47
- Bell 206 B111 Jetranger
- Bell 609
- Robinson R22
- Sikorsky S61
- V22 Osprey
- Blackhawk
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
DVD ROM DRIVE REQUIRED
Required: PC - Windows 98 - Me - 2000 - XP - Processor: 400 MHz, 128 MB RAM. Available Hard Drive: 6 GB. Video Card: 32 MB VRAM 3D, supporting the OpenGL API.
Recommended: USB Joystick. Processor: 1.0 GHz, 256 MB RAM. Available Hard Drive: 8 GB. Video Card 64 MB memory. Internet connection Multi-player and weather download