X-Plane - Latest Info and Details
X-Plane is a flight simulator for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows by Laminar Research. X-Plane is packaged with other software to build and customize aircraft and scenery, offering a complete flight simulation environment. X-Plane also has a plugin architecture that allows users to create their own modules and aircraft, extending the functionality of the software by letting users create their own worlds or replicas of places on earth.
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It comes with five scenery disks, and one with scenery and the actual simulator. It allows flight from -70 degrees south to 74 degrees north. Switching the planet to Mars is an option that comes with the game, and although the air is thin, flight is possible.
FLIGHT MODEL
X-Plane differentiates itself by implementing an aerodynamic model known as blade element theory. Traditionally, flight simulators try to emulate the real-world performance of an aircraft by using lookup tables to find known aerodynamic forces such as lift or drag, which vary with flight condition. These simulators do a good job of simulating the flight characteristics of the aircraft they were designed to simulate (those with known aerodynamic data), but are not useful in design work, and do not predict the performance of aircraft when the actual figures are not available.
Blade-element theory is one method of improving on this. It is a way of modeling the forces and moments on an aircraft by individually evaluating the parts that constitute it. Blade-element theory and other computational aerodynamic models can be used to compute aerodynamic forces in real time or to pre-compute aerodynamic forces of a new design for later use in a traditional lookup table type of simulator.
With Blade-element theory, a wing, for example, may be made up of many sections (1 to 4 is typical), and each section is further divided into as many as 10 separate sections, then the lift and drag of each section is calculated, and the resulting effect is applied to the whole aircraft. When this process is applied to each component, the simulated aircraft will fly virtually like its real counterpart does. This approach allows users to design aircraft on their computer quickly and easily, as the simulator engine will show immediately how an aircraft with a given design might perform in the real world.
X-Plane can model fairly complex aircraft designs, including helicopters, rockets, rotor craft and tilt-rotor craft. Famous real-world aircraft modeled in X-Plane include the V-22 Osprey, the Harrier Jump Jet, the NASA Space Shuttle, and Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne.
Blade element theory has shortcomings, as it can sometimes be difficult to design an aircraft that performs precisely as would real-world aircraft. However, as the flight model is refined, the simulator can better resemble real-world performance, and aircraft quirks and design flaws.
Aircraft For X Plane 10
Included in this category are civil heavy (mainly jet) passenger aircraft and planes add-ons compatible with X-Plane 11 (XP11) and the older files are compatible with X-Plane 10 (XP10). This section mainly covers larger passenger aircraft manufactured by the likes of Boeing, Airbus, and other smaller commercial manufacturers.
Image shows a TNT Cargo Boeing 737 on taxiway in X-Plane 11. This add-on is available from the file library here.
Plan-g For X-plane 10
All of the add-ons here are easy to install and most (if not all) come with detailed installation instructions to get you up and running with the new aircraft mod you have downloaded. At the moment, freeware developers are focusing on repaints as opposed to full models. X-Plane 11 comes with many high-quality aircraft out of the box and developers have chosen to expand on these existing aircraft with paints (repaints) of their own.
X-Plane 10 System Requirements | X-Plane
Repaints are easy to install and they are built to work with the existing aircraft so you can be sure you'll have a full cockpit and even a 3D Virtual Cockpit (VC) working when installed. Slowly, new models and more niche designs are becoming available as developers work on them so be sure to visit this page often for the latest updates and releases.
List Of X-planes - Wikipedia
All of the files here are free to download and use - you don't even need to register - simply click on 'Download' and begin.
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We still add some X-Plane 10 files from time to time but by user demand, we now focus mainly on XP11.