X Plane

by Xicat

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000056MJT
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: December 27, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,491 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC

Amazon.com Product Description

X-Plane is a comprehensive and powerful flight simulator with a realistic flight model. Choose from any of the 50 aircraft or build your own with the exclusive Plane-Maker software included with X-Plane. Use the powerful Part-Maker utility to design your own flaps, wings, and gear, and test them out in scenery you've created using the World-Maker.

Choose from a wide assortment of preconstructed craft from general aviation, commercial, military, experimental, and even space. Take off from more than 7,000 actual airports from all around the world as well as from ships and oil rigs at sea. Detailed modeling provides for all the actual terrain mapping around the virtual X-Plane world. Airport locations andsettings around the globe are detailed according to current FAA data.X-Plane can even be used to simulate your next flight before you even leave the ground. By using the Weather Briefer function, you can download real-time current weather conditions and apply them to your trip. Fly the Harrier jet, a classic war bird like the Mustang, and more. Thanks to info released from NASA, X-Plane allows a person to actually experience space flight on Mars. You can even bring a U.S. space shuttle back into orbit for landing.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best flightsim available, December 22, 2000

By 

Joshua M. Petty (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: X Plane (CD-ROM)

I have owned this sim for over a year now (it is only now available in stores and online, outside the developer's site). It is realistic and constantly being upgraded, free, for owners. Excellent graphics and real flight characteristics make it best the rest, I reccomend to any serious pilot, or anyone interested in a quality sim. Plus you know that you are not supporting a giant conglomerate. Laminar Research's X-Plane it an excellent buy, even at twice the price.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Move over Microsoft, December 15, 2000

By 

Brian Gerken (Rock Island, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: X Plane (CD-ROM)

You think that Microsoft is the only one to make a flight sim? Think again hotshot! X-Plane is the most impressive flight sim I've flown. The realizm level in the game is simple amazing. The best part is that if it's an airport in the continental US and many places abroad it's in this game. Ever heard of Dixon Municipal Airport or Palwaukee Airport in Illinois? Didn't think so, but they are right by my house and I can flight out of them! Hwo cool is that? some graphics are a bit sketchy but the focus of the game isn't that. Plus you can create ground objects. Now you can fly into your house. Mars, you can fly there to. The game alows you to create airplanes of your design, you want a liquid rocket fuel jet engine on you 747, now you can! You create it and the game tells you how it would fly. I can't express the fun I have with this game in words, where else can you fly the spacce shuttle?

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars X-Plane - The Best Feeling Of Civilian Flight, January 19, 2001

By 

Eric Counselor (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: X Plane (CD-ROM)

After a bit of research I finally got around to purchasing X-Plane. My first impressions? The best civilian flight simulator on the market today. Yep, looks good and even more importantly feels good. I have no excuse why I waited so long to pick up this outstanding flight simulator. Wafting snow drifts blowing across the runway, rain, lightning, it out performs Microsoft's Flight Simulator line in every way. While this baby has sold for $200 and then was at $79 very recently, I picked up my copy for under $40, and now you can too. If you are a civilian flight sim fan and have gotten enjoyment from Microsoft's Flight Simulator Line, Flight Unlimited or Fly!, you owe it to yourself to check out this constantly improved (and you can download the updates for free from the xplane website, not have to pay for Xplane 2000 etc. like all the other major players). Frame rate is fluid, and a variety of user made aircraft and scenery textures are available for download, just like the other guys. So why haven't you heard more about it? Because you have been blitzed by mega ad campaigns from the other sim players.Get Xplane now, you can fly the world with this one too, but in a much more realistic fashion. Highly recommended!

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