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May 4
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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?
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May 4
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Better weather? How can you have better weather than FS?
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May 4
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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.
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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May 15
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The people who created and flew Space Ship 1 have used X-Plane for the same reason.
Very good stuff. And I like the Aircraft editor it came in with.
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