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X Plane 9 is the world’s most comprehensive and powerful flight simulator for personal computers. X Plane 9 offers the most realistic flight model available for home use.

So that’s why I use X Plane 9 in my Boeing 737 cockpit version 2.The big difference between Microsoft’s Flight Simulator and X Plane is the way the flight dynamics are determined.
In MS Flight Simulator you can tell a brick to fly by specifying the proper flight dynamics. X Plane, however, calculates the flight dynamics by breaking down every surface of the air-plane and calculating the forces acting on each piece individually. So a brick in x-plane will fly like a brick…
A very realistic behaviour of the air-plane can be simulated this way.

X plane 9 flight simulator  has a very open interface. This is good when you want to connect all the cockpit hardware to it. There are several plugins for X Plane that allow you to control your plane by third party software.
Another pro of X Plane simulator  is the cost. Or better the lack of it! When you download X Plane, you get 6 DL DVD’s for only $29 !! This makes  X Plane freeware!. almost…
You will get all versions at once: a PC X Plane, a MAC X Plane and Linux X Plane. Plus the world scenery’s. Plus an airplane maker and a scenery maker. Also for all three platforms. It is absolutely high quality software. (It’s almost as if I’m selling it here )

The hardware you need for X Plane 9 is about the same as for MS Flight Simulator 2004. A 2GHz PC with 1GB of RAM and a reasonably powerful video card.

Check out X Plane 9 downloads on the vendors web site!

Tags: Flight Simulator, X Plane

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