You can even travel to Mars and try out a few craft around the red planet! Almost every possible weather scenario is available and you can apparently use real-time weather information downloaded from the net. You can fly pretty much anywhere on the planet, choosing to land at any one of over 16,000 airports, heli-pads or aircraft carriers.
There are hundreds of aircraft to fly (29 included and hundreds available to download for free) including space shuttles, radio control planes and almost everything in between. The first thing that strikes you about X-plane 8 is the absolutely huge scale of it. So it was with renewed excitement that I tackled X-Plane 8, a series I had not played for several years. But in recent years I have to admit I haven't really put my pilot hat on a whole lot. Gradually my tastes changed from wanting to fly commercial aircraft to hankering after a bit more action offered by combat flight sims. I spent hundreds of pounds on joysticks with separate throttle controls and hundreds of hours reading manuals the size of the New Testament. New features in version eight include non-repeating texture tiles, more systems-simulations and equipment-failure-simulations, new instruments, improved fonts, undulating runways, greater details shown when zooming in, accurate roadmaps and coastlines, new planes, and much more.įlight Sims used to make up the main part of my gaming diet. X-Plane 8 supports Internet and local network flights, and can be played in several languages (English, French, German, Portuguese, and more). Included in the package are programs that allow you to design your own creations: Plane-Maker, World-Maker, Airfoil-Maker, and the new Weather Briefer, which gives a weather briefing based on data downloaded from the Internet.
Pilots can also experience fantasy flights and high-risk scenarios such as Space Shuttle Orbiter missions, aircraft carrier landings and take-offs, flying on Mars, and combat missions. Features include full instrument panels, actual radio frequencies, manual or random failures, and much more. Twenty-nine aircraft and a number of international airports are included. Approved for certification by the FAA for Visual and Instrument Flight ratings, armchair pilots can not only design, build, and fly their own airplanes, but also create sceneries, design flight plans, and fly fantasy scenarios.
Billed as the most realistic flight simulator on the market, the X-Plane series returns to PCs with X-Plane 8.
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