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X-Plane Deluxe | List Price: $39.99
Discount Price: $74.99
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Platform: Mac OS X
Brand: Navarre
Binding: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2006-05-15
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Features: - Try out both subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, sporting aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter to the supersonic Concorde
- Fly 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry -- plus hundreds more downloaded from the Internet
- Customize the textures, sounds and instrument panels for your own airplanes -- or redesign the flight panels of pre-existing planes
- Detailed failure-modeling with 35 systems that can fail randomly -- fail instruments, engines, flight controls, and landing gear at any moment
- Variable weather patterns, from clear skies and high visibility to thunderstorms with controllable wind, wind shear, turbulence, and microbursts -- rain, snow and clouds are also available
Great sim, not for gamers [Posted on 2007-01-29]
If you're looking for an actual flight simulator, X-Plane is the way to go. If you get into navigation and proper flight procedure, buy it! On the other hand, if you're looking for photorealistic graphics of your home town, or simply want a video game where you get to fly planes, I would shop for another product.
Flight simulator for Mac [Posted on 2007-03-27]
great game, but to load the full game (includes graphics for the entire world) requires a lot of available space on your computer.
Great [Posted on 2007-09-16]
I've always wanted to be a pilot, this games offers me the chance to be one but in the comodity of my house. the game works excellent, you can download airport scenarios, real weather, this game wokrs whith an algorithm that makes it 100% real, the game is computing the vectors in your airplane surfaces all the time in order to determine the behavor of the plane in real time, not like in other games.
A tool [Posted on 2007-10-02]
If this is a tool for engineers to develop new planes, then I would say I'm regaining my fear of flying. Maybe the "process" of flying and the vector-modeling might be sound, but if this is the case, there's a serious flaw here in reality. I've never known a B-52 that can get airborne in only 3,000 ft, much less do the crazy antics you can do with the included model. Maybe I need to muck with it, but I don't care to design planes, I just want to be a pilot. Flight Sim X is MUCH more worth my money!
Also, wanna see something funny? Choose a sail-plane scenario. After the little Cessna gets you up in the air, suddenly change your aircraft to a Boeing 747! It's hilarious!
Love my Macs, but FSX is FAR better than X-Plane [Posted on 2008-01-03]
I'm an instrument-rated private pilot, and although I'm not part of the super-serious sim crowd that operates virtual airlines and virtual ATC, flight-sims aren't just games to me. I've used versions of Flight Simulator since the 1980s, and when I earned my license and then did instrument work, it was a resource I relied on VERY heavily.
But I'm also one of the many, many PC users so fed up with the constant need in a Windows environment to run anti-virus and anti-spyware programs that seriously degrade system performance that I switched to Macs last year. In general, I'm VERY happy.
The one HUGE disappointment has been X-Plane 8 Deluxe. It was the VERY first program I bought. But if it came with a money back guarantee, I'd absolutely be demanding my money back.
I've pulled a PC out of storage and upgraded it just so I can still run FSX. And I may, at some point, install Boot Camp or a similar program just so I can run FSX on my Macs. What I'll never do is spend another penny on X-Plane. FSX has its share of issues, but it's a MUCH, MUCH better program than X-Plane.
Digression: I HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend the book Microsoft Flight Simulator for Pilots: Real World Training. The authors, both flight instructors, do an outstanding job of relating FSX to real-world flying. (And they do an equally good job of pointing out where flying in FSX differs from real-world flying, as, for example, in ATC, available IFR clearances, and functionality of the G1000 PFD and MFD).
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