X-Plane is the most comprehensive and powerful flight simulator available for home computers. It includes subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, simulating aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic SR-71 and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie.
X-Plane comes with 29 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several hundred more are freely downloadable.
It includes scenery for the entire continental U.S. 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.
The integral Plane-Maker allows you to create your own airplanes, and World-Maker 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.
Features
- More than 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several hundred more that are freely downloadable
- Ability to land at any of over 18,000 airports, as well as on aircraft carriers, helipads on building tops, and more
- Variable weather, from clear skies and high visibility to thunderstorms
- Detailed failure modeling
ESRB content rating: E for "Everyone"
System Requirements
- Operating system: Mac OS X v10.3 or later
- 1GHz or faster PowerPC G4 or G5 or Intel Core Duo processor
- Memory: 1GB
- Free hard-disk space: 60GB
- Video card: 64MB VRAM
- Media required: DVD drive for installation and play
- Accessories: USB joystick or yoke and Internet connection recommended
MFG Part No.: 1055
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