X-Plane Flight Simulator
Do you enjoy flying? If so, you can experience flying without getting a pilot’s license nor renting a plane. It’s called flight simulation. It’s how pilots learn to fly before they actually get up in the air. It’s a real experience.
Flight simulation is the closest experience to actual flying and in fact is as real as it gets. Pilots learn to fly in flight simulators before they ever step into a real airplane. Flight simulation can prepare you for flying lessons or you can just enjoy flying in the comfort and safety of your own home. You can fly anywhere in the world and even outer space. Flight simulation is not a game but a real experience.
One of the best and maybe even the best flight simulation software is X-Plane. X-Plane will run on any Windows operating system and is installed via 5 DVDs. The installation is very easy but does require 20-30 minutes. X-Plane will also run on old hardware unlike Microsoft Flight Simulator X. So you don’t need the latest and greatest hardware to run X-Plane. And it will run well on old hardware too. You should get around 50 fps which means it will run smoothly without jerks and fuzzyness.
X-Plane is really quite a neat piece of software. The graphics are so detailed that it looks real. The clouds and mountains are unbelievable. I spend hours flying. It’s so relaxing. The controls work just like the real thing so you really have to learn how to fly and it’s not always easy depending on the plane you are flying. The Cessna 172 is easy to fly but some of the jets are much more difficult. You’ll need to spend some time getting to know the controls in the jets. It’s as real as it gets.
So what kinds of plane can you fly? Well, there are hundreds. There are many airline planes to choose from… the 747 to the 767 to the Lear or MU-2. There are private planes like the Cessna to the Mooney to the Boeing Stearman. There are literally thousands of planes to fly and some are free to download. There are also many military fighters (F-4, Mig 21, B1B, F-15, F-117 and more) and transports (C-130). You will never get bored with X-plane.
X-plane is a very sophisticated flight simulation software that is inexpensive and comes with unlimited updates for ever. When the next version is released, you get the download it for free. You can’t beat that.
X-Plane is the only flight simulation software in current production with full support. Microsoft has eliminated it’s flight simulator division and no longer supports the product.
X-Plane…it’s an experience