The lack of air resistance also makes landing next to impossible. What this translates to is "no banking on Mars" because there is nothing for your wings to grip. Again, using data from NASA, X-Plane has recreating the Martian atmosphere, complete with lower gravity and lower air density. Hard core sim fan are going to love flying on Mars.
For your information, the astronauts use a computer, but you have to do it by hand.
#X PLANE 11 AIRCRAFT MAKER STAND ALONE FULL#
Using one of X-Plane's instant action settings, you can bring the Shuttle in for a full re-entry sequence, or just try landing that brick at Edwards Airforce Base. My first plane couldn't get off the ground.Įarthbound flight can get a bit tiresome, so why not try your hand at atmospheric re-entry in the Space Shuttle or cruising around the ultra thin atmosphere of Mars? Using data from NASA, X-Plane has recreated the controls of the Space Shuttle for your flying pleasure. Always wanted to feel what Orvil and Wilber Wright felt at Kitty Hawk? Rebuild their plane and take it for a several meter flight! The application itself is relatively easy to master, but creating aircraft that are flight worthy is another thing altogether.
#X PLANE 11 AIRCRAFT MAKER STAND ALONE PLUS#
If the 40 plus included aircraft and the ones you can download aren't enough, the included Plane Maker application will let you build aircraft from the ground up. Of course, this also means that any aircraft you can imagine can also be built and made available for flight, assuming it stands up to the laws of physics. The way the game was designed, any aircraft ever built can be easily modeled and made available for flight. We've got the Concorde for speed freaks, the F-22 Raptor for the Top Gun in you, Cessnas and other small aircraft, Boeing 747s, Huey helicopters, the SR 71, gliders and of course, the Space Shuttle. There are over 40 that come with the game and more can be downloaded for free. The saying "Variety is the spice of life" must be a credo for Laminar Research, because there is so much packed into X-Plane that it could easily have been a single game and several expansion packs. The physics are so well modeled that X-Plane is able to simulate flight on Mars, but more about that later. X-Plane's flight physics also handle the differences between subsonic and supersonic air flow, so aircraft respond appropriately whether they're going 90 knots or Mach 2. The result is a difficult to control Space Shuttle or the fluid movements of a Cesna. Every part of the plane, props, rotors, wings, and stabilizers, are broken down to determine the force on each piece and then added up to determine all the forces at work on an aircraft. This technique is usually used just to predict the forces on the propeller or rotor, but X-Plane applies it to the whole aircraft. X-Plane uses an engineering process called blade element analysis that is used by engineers to predict the performance of aircraft propellers and helicopter rotors. X-Plane has managed to capture that feeling perfectly, and the proof of it is when you switch to a heavy craft like a Boeing and the sensation is more akin to crawling through air, even though you're traveling at a higher speed.
In small craft, it really does seem like you're floating. If you've ever been in the front seat of a helicopter or puddle jumper, you know what it's like to look out of the cockpit and watch your environment go by. There's a lot about X-Plane for players to love, there's even a few things to hate, but the heart and soul of this title and the thing that will get you hooked is the way the flight model feels. It started out as a grossly expensive, hyper realistic application for the die hard desktop pilot, but through Laminar Research's publishing deal with Xicat Interactive you can now own one of the most expansive flight sims ever written for under $40. X-Plane has been kicking around on flight sim enthusiasts' computers for a while now.
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