Hey X-Plane Community! Thomson here. We have some exciting dev updates on the way for you: a more realistic Airbus experience, some significant VRAM optimization, cloud improvements (including new cirrus clouds!), plus all sorts of other bug fixes and improvements. I’d like to outline what you can expect in our next few X-Plane 12 updates. […]
Landing an airplane on a tiny helipad on top of a building. Easy, right? Red Bull and Luke Czepiela sure think so… As soon as we saw this, we knew that we had to give it a try! Grab the art assets here, drop them into the PA-18 folder and give it a try for […]
There’s a whole lot of balloon popping in the news these days… So we wanted to give it a try! Watch Austin’s walkthrough and then try it for yourself with the instructions below. Instructions Make sure that you have X-Plane 12.04b2 installed – update using the X-Plane Installer, if needed. Download and install the […]
Overview of X-Plane 12 ATC Changes The Air Traffic Control (ATC) system in X-Plane 12 has had a major re-vamp compared to that of X-Plane 11. This article will highlight some of the major changes and point out some of the more subtle ones to try and give you an idea of what to expect. […]
We hosted a keynote event at FlightSimExpo to give the community a taste of what we have been working on for X-Plane 12. You can watch this presentation above and then scroll down to read a Q&A from our development team. These have been sourced/adapted from user questions from the internet and our live session […]
Here’s a quick update from our art director and A330 designer, Alex! “One of the least talked about, but incredibly important features of X-Plane is the generic instrument system. Working on the A330 instruments, I have had to come up with creative solutions and use some of the more buried features to achieve Airbus […]
Prove Your Skills – The X-Plane Landing Competition This year at FSExpo we are hosting a short field landing competition using X-Plane! We will host a qualifying round at our booth all day on Saturday with the Stinson L5 and a tiny runway. Try mastering landing the L5 in as short a distance as possible […]
X-Plane 11.55 is an incremental bug-fix patch that is now available. This release includes a fix for a crash in the plugin SDK and the latest Gateway airports. Full release notes available here.
Here are some of our favorite add-ons for April and May, 2021. Scenery Aerosoft released an excellent new European hub – Madrid–Barajas (LEMD). Cotswold is a unique English destination. This airport is the home to an aircraft salvage operation that attracts all sorts of retired aircraft. Boundless’ X-Plane version is available now! Aircraft JustFlight released […]
Here are some of our favorite add-ons for the month of March, 2021. Scenery Something crazy happened in the scenery market last month. Two different developers released their own renditions of Donegal Airport (EIDL) on the same weekend – for free! Here are links to download the the airport from Boundless and Axonos. Be sure […]