X-Plane v 9.0
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Product Summary
Brand: ValuSoftAudio: English (Unknown)
Format: DVD-ROM
Release Date: 2008-04-01
Platform: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Model: 71662
Publisher: Valusoft
Product features:
- X-Plane 9 provides Ultra Realistic Flight Simulation
- Subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, sporting aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic Concorde and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie
- Design the plane you want to fly-from instrument panel to fuselage to weapons
- Try your hand at flying the Space Shuttle - orbit mars or simply fly through outer space
- Land at any of over 18,000 airports, as well as on aircraft carriers, helipads on building tops, frigates that pitch and roll in the waves, and oil rigs
Video Game Reviews of X-Plane v 9.0
Customer Review: It is worth the trouble
Summary: 4 Stars
X-Plane is a simulator and not a game. It is not "plug-n-play" nor is it very user friendly. I have been flying X-Plane for years and still don't have it all figured out. It is rather detailed-expect to have to take some time to learn how the program works. That said there are many many pilots, aviation companies and people who just fly sims that think it is great.
The dvds from Laminar Research, the X-Plane parent company, support Windows, Mac and Linux. Some licensed or repackaged dvds from other companies may not support all three platforms and some may not have all the scenery disks. Be sure you know what you are buying. You do not have to download all 80G of scenery (or however big it is). You can select what places you want scenery for when installing. If installing the whole thing, expect to spend a few hours, even with a fast machine. A fairly up to date manual to get set up and fly can be found at the official website: [...] under the support heading.
To start out, you need to be sure that any necessary drivers are installed, the manual mentioned above can help with this. Then you will need to manually configure your graphics and Joystick, yoke, mouse or other input devices. The graphics settings can be found in the Settings>Rendering Options menu. Start with low graphics settings and then work up. If the processor(s) are being taxed by graphics set too high, and the flight model is suffering, XPlane always tries to keep the flight model realistic first. Too high graphics settings may cause lots of fog, even on clear days, or worse. Most major changes to graphics only change upon restarting X-Plane. To configure input devices (it will support a dozen or so simultaneously) go to Settings>Joystick & Equipment. You will need to calibrate your hardware and select which axis and slider control what. You will then need to center your Joystick/Yoke & pedals and select the amount of realism, deadspace and such. Then you will need to tell XPlane what you wish buttons to do. After setting your graphics and configuring your control devices you should be able to fly.
Updates and bug fixes can be found under the downloads heading at [...]. A warning about updating: Almost always updating X-Plane does ugly things to the preferences. The preference files can be found in the X-Plane folder under Resources>Preferences. It is best to delete or save them safely somewhere else if updating. Sometimes 3rd-party plugins (found in X-Plane 9>Resources>plugins) that worked before an update will no longer work correctly after an update. You may have to remove them. Be sure to not delete the plugins that installed with X-Plane. If you have room on your harddrive, you may wish to keep your pre-update version of X-Plane until you are sure you like what has been updated. X-Plane is always a work in progress. It is getting better and better, but some of the steps are a little rough.
Generally, unless you are experiencing a problem with something Austin Meyer, the author of X-Plane, is currently working on, he won't be very helpful with bugs and problems. If you chance to find a bug in something he is currently working on, expect a quick reply. He has a small staff which keeps costs low but also limits what he can do by way of product support. So what can be done to troubleshoot problems? The central meeting place of X-Plane users worldwide is [...]. With a little looking around the site and asking questions, bug fixes and solutions to nearly any X-Plane problem can be found.
The default planes that come with X-Plane are an odd group. Some are very nice and others are a bit crude. All were chosen and included to showcase various aspects of the program. At [...] a few thousand planes are available for free. Some of the free planes are very well done while others are half-finished projects or rejects. Download them and try them. Some of the half-finished planes just need a few tweaks in the included Plane-Maker program. A fun and well made plane designed in Plane-Maker that was nearly produced as a real-world plane is the free Evenblade twin turboprop by Sean Tabor. Benedikt Stratmann's free Boeing 737s are also excellent, but a bit daunting if you are not used to the complexity of flying an airliner. There are also links to many websites selling planes at [...]. Many of the payware sites have free planes also. Most of the planes have 2-D cockpits, but more and more are offering 3-D cockpits or both.
X-Plane can be a pretty hard program to set up and use. Get the manual from [...]. Download a few planes and some detailed scenery packages you really like at [...]. Once you get the hang of it, it is a great program.
Description of X-Plane v 9.0
Subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, sporting aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic Concorde and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie. Design the plane you want to fly-from instrument panel to fuselage to weapons. Try your hand at flying the Space Shuttle - orbit mars or simply fly through outer space! Land at any of over 18,000 airports, as well as on aircraft carriers, helipads on building tops, frigates that pitch and roll in the waves, and oil rigs. 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several hundred more are freely downloadable from the internet. NEW cutting-edge graphic effects for v9 include water reflections, real shadows, and smooth fog. 7.9 out of 10! ?X-Plane is a fantastic sandbox that makes a terrific counterpart to the much more rigid Flight Simulator series.? Gamespot.com. ?X-Plane is the single most impressive flight sim I?ve ever seen.? MacGamerFlight Games
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