"Rotwang" wrote:

I've just red about X-Plane, but I wanted more feedback on it.

Just go to www.x-plane.com and download the latest version (7.41). It is
a full version, however, you can only fly in San Bernardino and after 6
minutes your stick won't work anymore.

This will definitely help you to find out if you like it :-)

Personally I love X-Plane, mainly because it is the only flightsim that
runs reasonably on Mac and it is also possible to join VATSIM and fly
online just as with the MSFS.

There are lots of freeware addons and scenery, however, this is the weak
spot of XPlane and if you looking for nice scenery and lots of airports,
than XPlane is definitely the wrong choice. Here are the things which
amazes me most:

the flight model is extremely realistic - try to land a Cessna 172 with
crosswind and you'll see what I mean :-)

you can alter any aircraft and design even new ones without great effort

Weather and sky are beautiful - but for the awesome 3d-clouds you'll
need a strong PC or Mac

and so many other things..

HTH,

Thor


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