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 Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:52 pm Post subject: X-plane flight simulator |
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Has any one used the X-plane simulator program? It claims to feature RV's among many other planes (as well as roll-your-own). Any opinions would be useful. It's interesting to me because it runs on Linux.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 6:58 pm Post subject: X-plane flight simulator |
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I have been a user of X-plane for many years. I am running V8 at the moment because I cannot handle V9 on my puter. If you want to fully simulate a flight from engine start up through taxiing, take off and landing, it is quite possible. You select your radio frequencies, weather conditions ( I am a VFR pilot and I fly IFR minimums a lot), aircraft type, the works. Fly with an engine out and still get to an airport safely.
www.x-plane.org is the best place to get any type of aircraft imaginable.
You can design your own aircraft.
It is a great modern day "Links Trainer".
I flew a 747 out of a 4000 foot field and didn't wreck the aircraft and then landed it in a 30knot crosswind after dodging convective weather enroute.
In summary, you will enjoy it and you can't go wrong with this program.
Dave Nellis
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Subject: X-plane flight simulator
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Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 5:19 PM
Has any one used the X-plane simulator
program? It claims to feature RV's among many other
planes (as well as roll-your-own). Any opinions would be
useful. It's interesting to me because it runs on
Linux.
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Tom Sargent
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Greg Green
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| Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:56 am Post subject: X-plane flight simulator |
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Now that Microsoft has shut down their simulator work, XPlane is the next best thing.
There is also the Flight Gear project: http://www.flightgear.org/
Since you are using linux, this is usually already packaged up for most of the distributions.
We are using XPlane for some research at the Boeing co. Even though there is internal flight sim sw, it is not so easy to setup and expensive also. XPlane works pretty well, though not as polished as MS Flight Simulator was/is.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Dave Nellis <truflite(at)yahoo.com (truflite(at)yahoo.com)> wrote:
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I have been a user of X-plane for many years. I am running V8 at the moment because I cannot handle V9 on my puter. If you want to fully simulate a flight from engine start up through taxiing, take off and landing, it is quite possible. You select your radio frequencies, weather conditions ( I am a VFR pilot and I fly IFR minimums a lot), aircraft type, the works. Fly with an engine out and still get to an airport safely.
www.x-plane.org is the best place to get any type of aircraft imaginable.
You can design your own aircraft.
It is a great modern day "Links Trainer".
I flew a 747 out of a 4000 foot field and didn't wreck the aircraft and then landed it in a 30knot crosswind after dodging convective weather enroute.
In summary, you will enjoy it and you can't go wrong with this program.
Dave Nellis
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> Subject: X-plane flight simulator
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> Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 5:19 PM
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> Linux.
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