X-Plane 9

X-Plane 9
by Graphics Simulations Corporation

X-Plane 9
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Category: Video Games
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Product Summary

Brand: Graphic Simulations
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: DVD
Release Date: 2008-03-25
Platform: Mac
Model: 1055
Publisher: Graphics Simulations Corporation
Product features:
  • The most realistic flight model available for personal computers. It comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, simulating aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic Concorde and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie.
  • Includes over 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several hundred more are freely downloadable from the internet.
  • 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
  • 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. Real weather data can be downloaded, allowing you to fly in the actual conditions that currently exist! / Stunning new global scenery and atmospherics, including reflective water and volumetric fog
  • Includes 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.

Video Game Reviews of X-Plane 9

Customer Review: Don't expect Microsoft Flight Simulator consistency
Summary: 2 Stars

Despite it advertising better modeling than MS Flight Simulator, it doesn't feel like it. Controls are twitchy and overly sensitive (even after hours of fiddling) and planes that should be dead-on in "feel" are nowhere near it. Why, for example, does the 172 get pushed and turned around on the runway by a 10 knot quartering head wind without the brakes on? It is absurd. Such a thing does not happen in FSX and it doesn't happen in real life.

The feel and rate of controls (trims etc.) between different planes are too varied to be able to consistently expect anything and everything is always a surprise. The biggest problem is that even a plane like a Beech 1900D feels like a kite in the simulator, and it's no fun hand-flying anything smaller than a 737 in IMC. This simulator may be good for the lower-end commercial simulation market, but it needs tons and tons of work for it to be anywhere near as useful as FSX was on the desktop.

And of course, there are no missions. What made FSX a lot of fun is the missions and add-on packs available. There is no such animal in X-Plane and it shows. It lacks the adventure.

Description of X-Plane 9

X-Plane is the world's most comprehensive and powerful flight simulator available. Welcome to the world of props, jets, single- and multi-engine airplanes, as well as gliders, helicopters and new Very Light Jets such as the Cirrus Jet. The most realistic flight model available for personal computers. It comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, simulating aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic Concorde and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie. Includes over 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several hundred more are freely downloadable from the internet. 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. 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. Real weather data can be downloaded, allowing you to fly in the actual conditions that currently exist! Includes 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. Includes Plane-Maker, which lets the player create airplanes, and World-Maker, which lets the player create scenery. Also included is Weather Briefer that makes a weather briefing based on actual weather conditions.

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