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X-Plane 9.00 with free net updates + Global Scenery (Mac, PC and Linux Compatible)

X-Plane 9.00 with free net updates + Global Scenery (Mac, PC and Linux Compatible) Email this to a Friend
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New For X-Plane 9.00:
  • 867 instruments
  • 25,737 airports
  • 25,866 navaids
  • 88,367 fixes
  • ...18,008 scenery files (each file is one degree of latitude and longitude)


    X-Plane is the world's most comprehensive, powerful flight simulator, and has the most realistic flight model available for personal computers.

    Welcome to the world 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.

    X-Plane comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, sporting aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic SR-71 and Space Shuttle. X-Plane comes with about 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several thousand more are freely downloadable from the internet.

    X-Plane scenery is world-wide, with scenery for the entire planet Earth between -60 and +74 degrees lattiude. X-Plane also has MARS scenery! (thanks to the Mars Orbiting Laser Altimeter, which mapped that planet's elevation) You can land at any of over 18,000 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! Real weather conditions can be downloaded from the internet, allowing you to fly in the actual weather that currently exists!

    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.

    While X-Plane is the world's most COMPREHENSIVE flight sim, your purchase also comes with Plane-Maker (to create your own airplanes) World-Maker (to create your own scenery), and Weather Briefer (to get a weather briefing before the flight if you use real weather conditions downloaded from the net).

    X-Plane is also extremely customizable, allowing you to easily create textures, sounds, and instrument panels for your own airplanes that you design or the planes that come with the sim.

    X-Plane's accuracy (in flight model), scope (in aircraft and terrain coverage), versatility (in aircraft type and weather conditions), add-on programs (in aircraft and scenery editors), user-customizability, downloadable aircraft, and downloadable scenery makes it the ULTIMATE flight simulation experience for Macintosh AND Windows platforms.

    X-Plane's flight model can handle flying wings and fly-by-wire systems, as needed for a B-2 simulation.

    How it Works:

    X-Plane reads in the geometric shape of any aircraft and then figures out how that aircraft will fly. It does this by an engineering process called "blade element theory", which involves breaking the aircraft down into many small elements and then finding the forces on each little element many times per second. These forces are then converted into accelerations which are then integrated to velocities and positions... of course, all of this technical theory is completely transparent to you... you just fly! It's fun!

    X-Plane goes through the following steps to propagate the flight:

    1: Element Break-Down
    Done only once during initialization, X-Plane breaks the wing(s), horizontal stabilizer, vertical stabilizer(s), and propeller(s) (if equipped) down into a finite number of elements. The number of elements is decided by the user in Plane-Maker. Ten elements per side per wing or stabilizer is the maximum, and studies have shown that this provides roll rates and accelerations that are very close to the values that would be found with a much larger number of elements.

    2: Velocity Determination
    This is done twice per cycle. The aircraft linear and angular velocities, along with the longitudinal, lateral, and vertical arms of each element are considered to find the velocity vector of each element. Downwash, propwash, and induced angle of attack from lift-augmentation devices are all considered when finding the velocity vector of each element.
    Propwash is found by looking at the area of each propeller disk, and the thrust of each propeller. Using local air density, X-Plane determines the propwash required for momentum to be conserved.
    Downwash is found by looking at the aspect ratio, taper ratio, and sweep of the wing, and the horizontal and vertical distance of the "washed surface" (normally the horizontal stabilizer) from the "washing surface" (normally the wing), and then going to an empirical look-up table to get the degrees of downwash generated per coefficient of lift.

    3: Coefficient Determination
    The airfoil data entered in Part-Maker is 2-dimensional, so X-Plane applies finite wing lift-slope reduction, finite-wing CLmax reduction, finite-wing induced drag, and finite-wing moment reduction appropriate to the aspect ratio, taper ratio, and sweep of the wing, horizontal stabilizer, vertical stabilizer, or propeller blade in question. Compressible flow effects are considered using Prandtl-Glauert, but transonic effects are not simulated other than an empirical mach-divergent drag increase. In supersonic flight, the airfoil is considered to be a diamond shape with the appropriate thickness ratio... pressures behind the shock waves are found on each of the plates in the diamond-shaped airfoil and summed to give the total pressures on the foil element.

    4: Force Build-Up
    Using the coefficients just determined in step 3, areas determined during step 1, and dynamic pressures (determined separately for each element based on aircraft speed, altitude, temperature, propwash and wing sweep), the forces are found and summed for the entire aircraft. Forces are then divided by the aircraft mass for linear accelerations, and moments of inertia for angular accelerations.

    5: Get Back to Work
    Go back to step 2 and do the whole thing over again at least 15 times per second. Aren't computers great?

    Your X-Plane CD comes with several programs:

    Airfoil-Maker (to make airfoils for your aircraft if you would like to make your own planes).
    Plane-Maker (to make your own planes and helos if desired)
    World-Maker (to make your own scenery to fly in if you like)
    Weather-Briefer (to get a weather-briefing before your flight if desired)
    X-Plane (the actual flight simulator)

    X-Plane 9 System Requirements
    Windows any chip, 2 ghz+
    Macintosh G4 or G5 or Intel 2 ghz+
    Linux x86 any chip, 2 ghz+
    RAM 1 gig for speed
    Disk Space 70 gig
    CD/DVD DVD-DL
    3-D CARD OpenGL... NVIDIA has been more reliable
    VRAM 32 meg
    Monitor 1024x768+
    Joystick/Yoke USB

    Joysticks and Yokes
    While you can fly with the mouse or numeric keypad, we recommend a Joystick. We offer a full selection of CH Products Yokes and Pedals as well as Saitek.
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