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by **The Ruptured Duck** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:33 pm

I don't know where to post this so move it if you wish.

What do you guys know about the flight sim X-plane? I have heard that the flight models are much more accurite and there are more planes and better weather?

by **beefhole** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:37 pm

Better weather? How can you have better weather than FS?

by **jknight8907** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:51 pm

The flight dynamics are more realistic, the visuals are not as good as FS. i.e. more emphasis on realisim than on 'eye-candy'. It's a pretty good sim IMO, although it has its bugs.

www.x-plane.com

by **Wing Nut** » Thu May 05, 2005 11:02 am

The graphics are nowhere near as good as FS and there are nowhere near as many planes, but it's about as real as it gets for flight models and procedures... :)

Kevin

by **Gunny04** » Fri May 06, 2005 7:55 pm

X-plane isnt terrible, Just a bit..... Boring on longer flights, Its like flying over nothing but sparse FS land lol...... But it is very realistic is the Dynamics, Cheers! Gunny

by **ozzy72** » Sat May 07, 2005 4:25 am

For learning to fly properly with all the little details X-Plane is the master. However for sheer pleasure and learning most of the flying stuff you'll be hard pressed to beat FS.
I've got both and like them, but I log more hours in FS

by **lintonam** » Sun May 15, 2005 8:40 am

The NASA Mobile Aeronautics Education Lab uses X-Plane for there shuttle simulation. Although it is not as detaild visually x-plane has been used by test pilots and designers to actually design an airplane and calculate flight charachteristics