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Have you ever wanted to take charge of a commercial airliner and fly around the world? Well X-Plane is about as close to the real thing as you’re ever going to get on your Mac.
Claiming to be the world’s “most comprehensive, powerful simulator” it’s so accurate that the US and Canadian aviation authorities have given it official approval to train pilots towards their commercial licence. Of course, those guys are not sat behind a Mac in their bedroom - their training is done in a $150,000 simulator - but what they see is exactly what you get on your Mac.
What’s more, you’re not limited to Earth – you can even fly around Mars! Firstly, be warned.
This is one MASSIVE program. Don’t be fooled by the 1.8MB file size in the game description – that’s just the installer. Once you’ve installed that, a very swanky download dialog opens to download the other 1.3 gigabytes of the game. All those scenarios, vectored graphics and flight controls take up a lot of hardrive space. Depending on your bandwidth, you will be looking at hours, if not days to download the whole thing.
In this demo, you are limited to just one aircraft and five minutes of flight but in the full version, you can take control 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. It also offers 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. In all, about 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history) with several hundred more which can be freely downloaded from the internet.
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There’s even a plane builder option which allows you to build your own model. You can pretty much fly to any location around the world and choose from over 18,000 airports to test your landing and take-off skills. You can even test your mettle on aircraft carriers, helipads, frigates that pitch and roll in the waves, and oil rigs.
It naturally features the whole range of weather conditions you might face and the plane reacts realistically to them. The graphics are vector based so they’re not exactly brilliant but they’re what you’d expect from a simulator. The biggest problem you’ll have is working out how on earth to get started. The controls are incredibly complex to mirror a real commercial airliner. I spent the best part of 10 minutes just sat on the runway trying to work out how to start the engines whilst Air Traffic Control went crazy at me. You are prompted with a few guidelines at how to get rolling (such as “hit spacebar to release the breaks”) although you’re not told how to start the engines.
There are so many switches and dials in the cockpit that there’s no knowing what to hit without studying the huge flight manual in detail. In the end, the best I managed was to race around the airport before crashing into and destroying a control tower, killing all on board. For those that do have more patience, they need merely move the mouse cursor to the top of the screen where a drop down menu will present access to preferences, instructions, control configuration and many other options. For those that just want to fly free as a bird and admire the scenery, X-Plane is not for you. For those that want the challenge of mastering a real airliner or are training for a professional licence, it’s the best programme out there and will have you absorbed for hours.
This page is for X-Plane 10. For X-Plane 11 system requirements,. Minimum System Specifications X-Plane 10 requires, at the minimum,.
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Dual Core, 2.5 GHz or faster processor. 4 GB of RAM. A video card with at least 1 GB of VRAM. Note that the version of the X-Plane 10 flight simulator we sell will run on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
If you’re interested, you can get more info on. Recommended System Specifications For the best experience, we recommend the following system specs:. a Quad Core, 3.0 GHz or faster processor,. 16-20 GB of RAM,. a high-performance, DirectX 11-capable video card with at least 4 GB of on-board, dedicated VRAM.
Other Notes X-Plane depends most heavily on single thread CPU performance, but it will also take advantage of multiple cores or distinct processors—4 are recommended. 16 GB of RAM is usually adequate, but 20 GB may be needed for the most complex custom scenery packages. Likewise, highly detailed custom scenery can use as much as 4 GB of VRAM at the maximum settings. In order to use the full version of X-Plane, Disc 1 of the installation DVDs must be in your disc drive when launching the simulator. (This is not the case when using X-Plane for Professional Use or the Digital Download Edition; in that case, the USB key or Product Key replaces the Disc 1 DVD.) When running X-Plane on Linux, please note that you must install the proprietary or drivers. X-Plane will not run using Gallium or Mesa open-source drivers. Note: X-Plane 10 does not support PowerPC-based Macs, or versions of OS X prior to 10.6.8.
Purchasing Hardware for X-Plane If you are looking for hardware (joysticks, pedals, yokes, etc.) to use with X-Plane, or a good machine to run X-Plane, please visit. If you are not sure which joysticks to get, which computer to buy, and so on, we recommend going to Digital Edge for that hardware. Everything you get there will have been selected by Laminar Research employees to work perfectly with X-Plane.