WINDOWS users: YOU MUST HAVE DIRECT-X-8 (or higher) FROM MICROSOFT TO RUN!

If you still do
not get verbal speech from ATC, download speech synthesis. Mac users are good to go with stock G4's
and G5's and Intels.

X-Plane is of course Universal Binary on Mac.

  X-Plane 7.x X-Plane 8.x

Windows Pentium any chip, 2 The Lowdown:

1ghz+ ghz+
Macintosh PowerMac G4 or G5 X-Plane 8.x is a 3-D accelerated program,
800+ 1ghz+ which means that it needs a decent CPU and
a 3-D accelerator card to run. 3-D accelerator
Linux x86 any chip, 2 cards are designed specifically to do high-
ghz+ speed graphics, so they work many times
faster than your CPU ever could. The 2
Linux PPC ODW, 1ghz+ languages of 3-D accelerator cards are
OpenGL and Direct-3D.
RAM 384 meg 1 gig for
speed
All Laminar Research software uses
Disk Space 4 gig 60 gig OpenGL. You must therefore have a 3-D
accelerator card that can run OpenGL to use
CD/DVD CD DVD our latest software.
3-D CARD OpenGL OpenGL
The faster your CPU, the better the frame-
VRAM 16 meg 32 meg rate, so get a fast Pentium or Mac if
possible.
Monitor 1024x768+ 1024x768+
Joystick/Yoke USB USB

Where Can I get a good MACINTOSH for X-Plane?

www.Apple.com. I use the latest G5 with 1024 meg of RAM.

Where can I get a good WINDOWS MACHINE OR JUST JOYSTICK for X-Plane?
Digital Edge (a local company with a good X-Plane system)

Joysticks and Yokes

No joystick is required. You can fly with the mouse or numeric keypad. But to really be realistic you need a
joystick or yoke. Any modern USB joystick should be fine for both Mac and Windows.

 If you want a full set-up with ergonomics just like the real aircraft, I recommend a CH-Products
Flight Sim Yoke with CH-Products rudder pedals. This will give you yoke, pedals, and general
ergonomics of the real aircraft if the real aircraft is flown with a yoke. YOU SHOULD AVOID THE
LOGITECH JOYSTICKS ON MACINTOSHES... THE LOGITECHS CAUSE THE COMPUTER TO
RUN VERY SLOWLY BECAUSE OF AN ISSUE WITH THEIR DRIVERS!!!
  If you are more interested in flying aircraft that are STICK RATHER
THAN YOKE OPERATED (such as fighters and helicopters) then
you should probably get any CH-Products joystick and CH-
Products rudder pedals.

X Plane 8.5 (8.6 – beta testing): Global Scenery

Weather is variable from clear skies and high visibility

to thunderstorms with controllable wind, wind shear,
Plane is the world's most comprehensive, powerful
turbulence, and microbursts! Rain, snow and clouds
flight simulator, and has the most realistic flight model
are available for an instrument flying challenge, and
available for personal computers.
thermals are available for the gliders! Real weather
conditions can be downloaded from the internet,
Welcome to the world of props, jets, single- and multi- allowing you to fly in the actual weather that currently
engine airplanes, as well as gliders, helicopters and exists!
VTOLs such as the V-22 Osprey and AV8-B Harrier.
X-Plane also has detailed failure-modeling, with 35
X-Plane comes with subsonic and supersonic flight systems that can be failed manually or randomly,
dynamics, sporting aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet- when you least expect it! You can fail instruments,
Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the engines, flight controls, and landing gear at any
supersonic Concorde and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie. X- moment.
Plane comes with about 40 aircraft spanning the
aviation industry (and history), and several hundred
While X-Plane is the world's most COMPREHENSIVE
more are freely downloadable from the internet.
flight sim, your purchase also comes with Plane-
Maker (to create your own airplanes) World-Maker (to
X-Plane scenery is world-wide, with scenery for the create your own scenery), and Weather Briefer (to get
entire planet Earth AND MARS! (thanks to the Mars a weather briefing before the flight if you use real
Orbiting Laser Altimeter, which mapped that planet's weather conditions downloaded from the net).
elevation) You can land at any of over 18,000 airports,
as well as test your mettle on aircraft carriers,
X-Plane is also extremely customizable, allowing you
helipads on building tops, frigates that pitch and roll in
to easily create textures, sounds, and instrument
the waves, and oil rigs.
panels for your own airplanes that you design or the
planes that come with the sim.

X-Plane's accuracy (in flight model), scope (in aircraft and terrain coverage), versatility (in aircraft type and
weather conditions), add-on programs (in aircraft and scenery editors), user-customizability, downloadable
aircraft, and downloadable scenery makes it the ULTIMATE flight simulation experience for Macintosh AND
Windows platforms.

X-Plane's flight model can handle flying wings and fly-by-wire systems, as needed for a B-2 simulation.

How it Works:

X-Plane reads in the geometric shape of any aircraft and then figures out how that aircraft will fly. It does this
by an engineering process called "blade element theory", which involves breaking the aircraft down into
many small elements and then finding the forces on each little element many times per second. These
forces are then converted into accelerations which are then integrated to velocities and positions... of
course, all of this technical theory is completely transparent to you... you just fly! It's fun!

X-Plane goes through the following steps to propagate the flight:

1: Element Break-Down
Done only once during initialization, X-Plane breaks the wing(s), horizontal stabilizer, vertical stabilizer(s),
and propeller(s) (if equipped) down into a finite number of elements. The number of elements is decided by
the user in Plane-Maker. Ten elements per side per wing or stabilizer is the maximum, and studies have
shown that this provides roll rates and accelerations that are very close to the values that would be found
with a much larger number of elements.

2: Velocity Determination
This is done twice per cycle. The aircraft linear and angular velocities, along with the longitudinal, lateral,
and vertical arms of each element are considered to find the velocity vector of each element. Downwash,
propwash, and induced angle of attack from lift-augmentation devices are all considered when finding the
velocity vector of each element.
Propwash is found by looking at the area of each propeller disk, and the thrust of each propeller. Using local
air density, X-Plane determines the propwash required for momentum to be conserved.
Downwash is found by looking at the aspect ratio, taper ratio, and sweep of the wing, and the horizontal and
vertical distance of the "washed surface" (normally the horizontal stabilizer) from the "washing surface"
(normally the wing), and then going to an empirical look-up table to get the degrees of downwash generated
per coefficient of lift.

3: Coefficient Determination
The airfoil data entered in Part-Maker is 2-dimensional, so X-Plane applies finite wing lift-slope reduction,
finite-wing CLmax reduction, finite-wing induced drag, and finite-wing moment reduction appropriate to the
aspect ratio, taper ratio, and sweep of the wing, horizontal stabilizer, vertical stabilizer, or propeller blade in
question. Compressible flow effects are considered using Prandtl-Glauert, but transonic effects are not
simulated other than an empirical mach-divergent drag increase. In supersonic flight, the airfoil is considered
to be a diamond shape with the appropriate thickness ratio... pressures behind the shock waves are found
on each of the plates in the diamond-shaped airfoil and summed to give the total pressures on the foil
element.

4: Force Build-Up
Using the coefficients just determined in step 3, areas determined during step 1, and dynamic pressures
(determined separately for each element based on aircraft speed, altitude, temperature, propwash and wing
sweep), the forces are found and summed for the entire aircraft. Forces are then divided by the aircraft mass
for linear accelerations, and moments of inertia for angular accelerations.

5: Get Back to Work

Go back to step 2 and do the whole thing over again at least 15 times per second. Aren't computers great?

Your X-Plane CD comes with several programs:

Airfoil-Maker (to make airfoils for your aircraft if you would like to make your own planes).
Plane-Maker (to make your own planes and helos if desired)
World-Maker (to make your own scenery to fly in if you like)
Weather-Briefer (to get a weather-briefing before your flight if desired)
X-Plane (the actual flight simulator)

X-PLANE GETS FAA APPROVAL FOR TRAINING

TOWARDS AIRLINE TRANSPORT CERTIFICATE
WHEN USED IN A MOTUS FULL-MOTION PLATFORM!
Fidelity Flight Simulation has obtained FAA approval (documented here) to train pilots towards their
COMMERCIAL CERTIFICATE, INSTRUMENT RATING, and AIRLINE TRANSPORT PILOT
CERTIFICATE. This training is done in a full-motion simulator, using X-Plane as the simulator software!

This is the first time ANY consumer-priced software has EVER gotten this certification.

Now, with X-Plane, we have a flight sim that can be used for logging time towards your instrument rating,
Commercial Certificate, or even your AIRLINE TRANSPORT CERTIFICATE! Actually LOGGING this time
 requires you to be in a Motus full-motion sim (price tag: about $150,000.00) with an instructor, so this
route will only be affordable if you train at a flight training center that uses a Fidelity Flight Simulations Motus
platform... but, if you want X-Plane without the $150,000 cost... then you can have it for $50.00 right here!

As well, X-Plane has obtained FAA and Transport-Canada approval for flight training at PCATD, ATD,
Advanced ATD, and FTD levels with PFC hardware.

Imagine... the software that the that drives a full-motion platform for FAA-certified flight-training is now
available right here, right now, for your own PC. This has been the result of a 2-year-long secret
collaboration between Fidelity and Laminar Research, and an ongoing development with PFC, and the
results are now available for the world to see, at a price-point the world can afford. Here is the press release
from Fidelity on their first Motus/X-Plane installation.

As well, FAA-Certified X-Plane is sold by: www.FlyPFC.com

...and German JAA-Approved: Rheinmetall Defence Electronics GmbH

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X-Plane + New Global Scenery (Entire World)

This is X-Plane + NEW WORLD-WIDE global scenery (seven d

DVD's covering all of Earth between +/- 60 degrees latitude)
Windows, and Linux.

The disk requirement to install the entire planet is 60 GIG!

(Linux users will need to grab the latest installers from the D
section of this web site).

X-Plane + One Scenery DVD

This is X-Plane + NEW scenery for your area for Mac, Window
Linux. We will send you X-Plane Version 8 and the scenery D
corresponds to your geographic area. For example, if you live
you will get a Version 8 DVD and the Europe scenery DVD. If
the USA, you will get a Version 8 DVD and the USA scenery D
get the idea...We will base this on the SHIP TO address.

X-Plane 6 CD

This is an older X-Plane for computers more than 4 yea

AvioApp

This is the new AvioApp for X-Plane. It is a standalone progra

simulates the Avidyne PFD with flight-training-level accuracy
program is run on it's own computer hooked to X-Plane throu
 

CH FlightSim Yoke

This is the CH Products FlightSim Yoke, an excellent USB yok

can use with X-Plane. Please only order this item if you live i
Canada, or Peurto Rico due to prohibitive shipping costs and

CH FlightStick Pro

This is the CH Product FlightStick Pro, an excellent USB joyst

can use with X-Plane. Please only order this item if you live i
Canada, or Peurto Rico due to prohibitive shipping costs and

CH Pro Pedals

These are the CH Products ProPedals, an excellent set of USB

that you can use with X-Plane. Please only order this item if
the USA, Canada, or Peurto Rico due to prohibitive shipping c
constraints.

CH Pro Throttle

This is the CH Products Pro Throttle, an excellent USB throttl

can use with X-Plane. Please only order this item if you live i
Canada, or Peurto Rico due to prohibitive shipping costs and

CH Throttle Quadrant

This is the CH Products Throttle Quadrant, an excellent USB

quadrant that you can use with X-Plane. Please only order th
you live in the USA, Canada, or Peurto Rico due to prohibitiv
costs and constraints.

Command Center Gaming Table

Sleek gaming Table to hold all of your controllers. Click for m

information.

 
 X-Plane T-Shirt - copilot (click to see front of shirt)

Front: "I hate to wake up and find my co-pilot asleep." To th

are seeing the back of the shirt. (Click picture of shirt to choo
size and to see the front)

X-Plane T-Shirt - Helo (click to see front of shirt)

Front: "If helicopters are so safe, how come there are no vin
helicopter fly-ins?" To the left you are seeing the back of the
picture of shirt to choose your size and to see the front)

X-Plane T-Shirt - Party (click to see front of shirt)

Front:
"Q: How do you know if a pilot is at your party?
A: He'll tell you."
To the left you are seeing the back of the shirt. (Click picture
choose your size and to see the front)

    
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Laminar Research
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Columbia, SC, 29206
    
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