If you’ve read my past reviews of X-plane, you’ll know that I’m somewhat of a fan of that product. It’s an ultra realistic flight simulator. If you’ll read the product page you will see that it boasts a long list of features. I can assure you, they’re being modest. I don’t pay for software very [...]
Also taggedLast weekend I ordered X-plane version 9. I bought version 8 early 2006 and since then I haven’t looked back. Sure MS Flight Simulator looks great but the flying sucks. Laminar consistently delivers with new features and bug fixes delivered. Version 8 got its last major update (8.64) about half a year ago and since [...]
Also tagged reviewsI stumbled on two interesting programs that effectively turn my webcam into a head tracking device. The first one is a reasonably priced commercial package called Cachya. They have a trial version available that I installed to play with. The second one is a french open source product freetrack.
Why is this interesting?
(cachya, sightseeing)
(cachya, dogfight)
(freetrack)
(freetrack with [...]
Also tagged reviewsA few months ago, I posted something about early betas of x-plane 8.50. Well the final version is here and seems to be working as advertised. A lot of feature work has been done in this release, much of it related to the simulation quality but also some nice improvements in the rendering engine.
I just [...]
It seems Austin Meyer has had a busy summer. As you may know, I’m big fan of his flight simulator, x-plane. About three months ago it was upgraded from 8.30 to 8.40. The 0.10 version increment represented a huge list of new and improved features and he managed to throw in some nice performance enhancements [...]
Also taggedI’ve written quite a bit on x-plane lately. That was before I discovered a few good quality scenery packages. One of these packages is a 400 MB version of Paris, the capital of France. Wow. You can download it here, for free!
Here’s some screenshots (all running beautifully smooth). This is by far the most realistic [...]
NL X-Plane : a dutch scenery for X-Plane
Just what I wanted. Nice scenery for x-plane. Despite weighing in at 60 GB, the world scenery coming with x-plane is a bit boring in some parts of the world. This is the fix for a small part of the world. The provided scenery for North Holland (region [...]
I’ve finally found some optimal settings for my system. The number of objects in the view determines the framerate. X-plane includes an option to display render statistics including number of objects and framerate.
As a benchmark, I start x-plane, take off from jfk and make a turn towards Manhattan. As I make the turn, the worst [...]
More playing with x-plane. I found this very nice reference on flying an airplane. I’ve learned quite a few useful things already. Just now, I made a silky smooth landing at JFK (New York) coming in at a nice and predictable 3 degree angle at a nice and predictable speed of 80 knots. That is [...]
Also taggedToday I played a bit more with x-plane. I made two flights. One from Baltimore to Newark (with a King Air 350) and one from Philadelphia to Newark (Piper PA 180). Both planes were downloaded from xplane.org. More such goodies can be found there.
Additionally I played a bit with the graphics settings. What I found [...]
