X-Plane any good ?

"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


--
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. (R. Feynman)

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 :-)

Well, under the above limitations, I didn't like
it at all. I never could get it working under
Linux, what with all the extra crap you have to
have installed in the right (undocumented)
folders, and while it worked in XP, I never got
used enough to the keyboard commands before the
6 minute limit was up.

What I gained from the experience is this; FS
2004 is plenty good enough for me. I wish it
would run under Linux but what the heck. If
X-plane gave me 15 minutes and the option to fly
somewhere more familiar, I might have a better
experience. I just don't want to get in the
habit of throwing good money after bad.

Just an opinion, mind you.

AL

* AL Mills :

[SNIP] and while it worked in XP,
I never got used enough to the keyboard commands before the 6 minute limit
was up.

In all fairness to X-Plane that does seem to be six minutes longer than
you'd get to test MSFS.

--
Dave Pearson
http://www.davep.org/

AL Mills wrote:

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.

Well, under the above limitations, I didn't like
it at all. I never could get it working under
Linux, what with all the extra crap you have to
have installed in the right (undocumented)
folders, and while it worked in XP, I never got
used enough to the keyboard commands before the
6 minute limit was up.

Al, nevermind...

As far as I know, only the stick is disabled after 6 minutes, after then
you can continue your flight using the autopilot. Maybe this is not very
helpful to find out about the flight realism, because 6 minutes are far
too short for a takeoff and landing at different airports.

On the other hand, as mentioned elsewhere - MSFS offers you zero minutes
for testing :-) From my point of wiew, the demo is well suited to see if
and how fast X-Plane runs on a specific computer and not for extensive
testing...

Since I am using only my mac for flying, it is hard for me to compare
MSFS and X-Plane - and when it comes to scenery, FS2004 looks amazing to
me and is no competition for X-Plane. Anyway, cruising with a small
Cessna or Piper in X-Plane and heavy weather feels pretty realistic to
me and is a bunch of fun.

just my 2ct....


Cheers,

Thor




--
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. (R. Feynman)