X-Plane 9 | List Price: $59.99
Discount Price: $44.90
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Platform: Macintosh
Brand: Graphic Simulations
Binding: Video Game
Release Date: 2008-03-25
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Features: - The most realistic flight model available for personal computers. It comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, simulating aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic Concorde and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie.
- Includes over 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several hundred more are freely downloadable from the internet.
- Land at any of over 18,000 airports, as well as test your mettle on aircraft carriers, helipads on building tops, frigates that pitch and roll in the waves
- Weather is variable from clear skies and high visibility to thunderstorms with controllable wind, wind shear, turbulence, and microbursts. Rain, snow and clouds are available for an instrument flying challenge. Real weather data can be downloaded, allowing you to fly in the actual conditions that currently exist! / Stunning new global scenery and atmospherics, including reflective water and volumetric fog
- Includes detailed failure modeling, with 35 systems that can be failed manually or randomly, when you least expect it! You can fail instruments, engines, flight controls, and landing.
Unbelievably Bad [Posted on 2008-04-15]
I purchased this program for my new MacPro, and couldn't wait to get it installed. I am a licensed pilot and have spent many hours flying many different flight sims, including an older version of XPlane for the PC. It took over an hour to install, and the installer kept going backwards in time remaining.
I bought my product in a box, but it's not a finished product, it's some sort of a beta version, filled with more bugs and glitches than you can shake a stick at. Trim goes crazy constantly, the throttle goes crazy (on three different sticks/yokes) and cockpit functionality is generally hit or miss on nearly everything. Flaps will work on one aircraft while only in a certain view mode, while other planes require a different view mode to operate flaps, speedbrakes or trim. Some aircraft seem to have no flap or airbrake functionality. The cockpits seem to be crappy ports from another version, and for something touted at oh so real, flight dynamics are all over the map with each plane.
The interface itself is quite silly, having to push buttons above and below numbers instead of simply inputting them. The Autopilot in most aircraft is the stupidest thing I have ever seen, mostly not working in one or more ways.
In general, this thing is a mess. Again, it's not a product, it's some sort of betaware. Updates look nightmarish, new aircraft and scenery seem to require programming skills and the forums make this all very clear. Unless you want to spend a significant portion of your life making this thing run right, stay away.
XPlane 9 just got uninstalled from my machine - back to the PC.
Lots of Bugs and a Hog on Disk Space [Posted on 2008-05-05]
I have to agree with the other reviewer. X-Plane 9 is not what I expected. I will stick with MSFS 2004. I also thought my PFC controls that work with MSFS would be compatable with X-Plane and it was not the case.
Don't waste you money! [Posted on 2008-05-09]
This is the worst game ever for Mac.
I'm not a pilot but enjoy playing flight simulation games.
It's full of bugs. As another reviewer mentioned, it's kind of an alpha version or worse.
Warning! X-Plane 9.0 for Mac doesn't work at all. Full of graphics bug, maintaining any plane's control is almost impossible, my $[...] Saitek joystick doesn't work... I'm very frustrated and dissapointed.
In resume, make yourself a big favor and don't waste your precious money on this crap. Stay away from this game and you'll not regret it as I did.
Exelent PROFESSIONAL flight sim. [Posted on 2008-05-12]
X-plane is an actual professional flight sim with an amazing flight model and physics (it uses blade element theory which bases how the airplanes fly on what their geometry is). The only difference between the home version of it and the FAA approved flight training version of it is that the home version most likely wouldn't be connected to a full motion platform. In fact the Cessna "the Jet" airplane included is the actual model that Cessna used to test its real life counterpart! Though it does take a long time to master ( its not very first time user friendly) it definitely make up for it in how many things you can do. There are also hundreds of additional aircraft and sceneries you can download, and it comes with "Plane maker" and "World maker" aplications so you can make your own. The graphics in X-plane 9.00 are close to (and in many peoples opinions better) than that of Flight Sim X. And unlike Flight Sim X you get free updates until the next full version (Ex. 9.00-10.00) The updates always include bug fixes and new content based on users feedback. Overall I think X-plane is a very good flight simulator, it does have a steep learning curve and can be intimidating, but from the moment you take of you won't regret buying it.
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