X-Plane Deluxe
- Try out both subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, sporting aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter to the supersonic Concorde
- Glide 40 aircraft across the aviation industry — plus hundreds more downloaded from the Internet
- Customize the textures, sounds and instrument panels for your own airplanes — or redesign the flight panels of pre-existing planes
- Detailed failure-modeling with 35 systems that can fail randomly — fail instruments, engines, flight controls, and landing gear at any moment
- Variable weather patterns, from clear skies and high visibility to thunderstorms with controllable wind, wind shear, turbulence, and microbursts — rain, snow and clouds are also available
Product Description
X-Plane 8 Deluxe is the most wide-ranging flight sim available today. It offers incredible accuracy in flight models, wider scope in aircraft and a more versatile set of aircraft types and weather conditions. Users can also Download new aircraft, scenery and more — for flight simulation that’s amazingly close to the real thing. Land at any of 18,000 airports across the world, with realistic scenery from all of them – you can even land on Mars, thanks to the Mars Orbiting Laser Altimeter
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Accurate flight simulation, and well done topographical scenery make this a wonderful escape from the ordinary work day. I’m even learning geography.
Rating: 5 / 5
X-Plane customer service is horrible. Contrary to their web site, the free lifetime customer support is support with an attitude. No one there wants to talk to you, no one wants to believe that their product might have problems, basically, they don’t care about the customers. Beware customer – Beware!
Rating: 1 / 5
Have been using Microsoft Flight Sim X on a Outlook machine. The thought was to increase my instrument awareness. I glide VFR (visual, with only secondary reference to instruments). Changed computers to a Mac. This simulator runs on Mac, so…
First, the excellent or brilliant. The visuals are awesome. Yes, at the very close level, under a quarter of a mile or so horizontally or 5000′ or so elevation, the scale and needs of computation yield a pretty artificial landscape, but that pretty much has to be right for any simulator. Second, I reflect the Cessna 172 flies a bit more accurately than the Microsoft product. There’s excellent and terrible to that. The excellent is that I don’t have the feeling of having to yank the plane around the sky or do very gradually that’s right of Flight Sim.
But, first time I flew a 172SP I found the bird needed a lot of right controls to keep it straight at full potential. That’s right of the simulated bird as well. The conundrum is that I’m trying to control with only the mouse and keyboard. There’s no way that works. To take off straight controls control is necessary. Get a joystick? Yoke and controls peddles? The gratuitous sprinkling of balloons around the sky is unnecessary. But there is probably a setting that I just haven’t found yet to get rid of them.
I read a lot of unenthusiastic reviews of the product. I don’t share their experience. Haven’t tried arbitrarily changing things and am not trying to design an airplane. One of the things that took some getting used to was the mouse control of pitch and roll. Holding the mouse not more than the target cross pitches up, stick back, and above the cross is the contrary. For the most part the pitch and roll control are pretty sensitive. If you’re really trying to glide, the mouse arrow won’t be very far from the cross very often.
My 12 year ancient son is a gamer, at least he’s not a pilot and he fools around with things like Runescape. He gets wild and is impressed with the visuals attached to things like terrible landings. Smoke. All sorts of warning lights on the panel… For my purposes, I skip by my goofs pretty quick. The best way to do that is simply hit pause and pull down the menu to reposition the plane for takeoff.
So, my expectations weren’t excessive. The problems I’ve encountered aren’t a lot different from those I had learning Microsoft Flight Sim. X Plane may or may not do everything it promises excellently. I’ll probably never know. But I look forward to keeping my instrument awareness up. My wife says flying a simulator has even improved my landings.
Rating: 4 / 5
I’m an instrument-rated confidential pilot, and although I’m not part of the super-honest sim crowd that operates virtual airlines and virtual ATC, flight-sims aren’t just sports meeting to me. I’ve used versions of Flight Simulator since the 1980s, and when I earned my license and then did instrument work, it was a resource I relied on VERY heavily.
But I’m also one of the many, many PC users so fed up with the constant need in a Windows environment to run anti-virus and anti-spyware programs that seriously degrade system performance that I switched to Macs last year. In general, I’m VERY pleased.
The one HUGE disappointment has been X-Plane 8 Deluxe. It was the VERY first program I bought. But if it came with a cash back guarantee, I’d absolutely be demanding my cash back.
I’ve pulled a PC out of storage and upgraded it just so I can still run FSX. And I may, at some point, install Boot Camp or a similar program just so I can run FSX on my Macs. What I’ll never do is spend another penny on X-Plane. FSX has its share of issues, but it’s a MUCH, MUCH better program than X-Plane.
Digression: I HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend the book Microsoft Flight Simulator for Pilots: Real World Training. The authors, both flight instructors, do an outstanding job of relating FSX to real-world flying. (And they do an equally excellent job of pointing out where flying in FSX differs from real-world flying, as, for example, in ATC, available IFR clearances, and functionality of the G1000 PFD and MFD).
Rating: 1 / 5
If this is a tool for engineers to develop new planes, then I would say I’m regaining my dread of flying. Maybe the “process” of flying and the vector-modeling might be sound, but if this is the case, there’s a honest flaw here in reality. I’ve never known a B-52 that can get airborne in only 3,000 ft, much less do the crazy antics you can do with the included model. Maybe I need to muck with it, but I don’t care to design planes, I just want to be a pilot. Flight Sim X is MUCH more worth my cash!
Also, wanna see something amusing? Choose a sail-plane scenario. After the small Cessna gets you up in the air, suddenly change your aircraft to a Boeing 747! It’s hilarious!
Rating: 1 / 5