X-Plane is a realistic and colorful flight simulation game from Laminar Research. It supports 3D terrain and elevation maps, and it includes a powerful physics modeler to simulate various weather conditions, such as rain, thunderstorms, wind shear, turbulence, and thermals. The demo version includes scenery for Southern California and limits gameplay to five minutes per game. What's New: Version 6.60rc3 adds the following: New plugins support! This makes every aspect of the sim customizeable and controllable! The first major use of Plugins is also almost ready... SQUAWKBOX SUPPORT! You will be able to log onto the net and fly with thtousands of other planes... flying various different flight sims! Our plugin guys are working on this now and we expect something for you to fly by the end of beta! New Airport and NAVAID databases... the databse is updated and refined as always! Scenery enhancement... in addition to the vector rivers, roads go cleverly around airports now.. no more roads crossing through runways! "C" key to bring up sectional chart (you asked for it, you got it!) FADEC failures now available! This is something the FAA wanted for the FAA-cert use... you get the benefit! All failures now outputtable by UDP selection! For thos eof you building your own cockpits with multiple computers, you can now set failures from a different failure computer. DME is now avail to carriers and frigates... get ready for those tricky ILS-DME's to the boat for a trap or hover-landing! Beta prop option in plane-maker to get that beta-range in props just right. Again, an FAA need for certification. World-Maker auto-grid option stays away from the env edges so the env edges are always perfect. In Plane-Maker, put the new water gage in the supplementary folder on the panel of your water bomber... then skim the ocean to pick up water to drop on fires! This has been a frequent request. World-Maker apt/nav search improved... it now finds apt and nav IDs of even non-standard length. |  |
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