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Version 10 Tuesdays, Installment 1

Welcome to the first edition of Version 10 Tuesdays! Once a week, we’ll be releasing screenshots of the upcoming X-Plane 10. The images in this week’s installment are demonstrating the X-Plane 10 “plausible world” model. From airports to roads to buildings, X-Plane 10 scenery represents a huge change in our modeling. We’re building every city […]

The X-Plane 10 Core Engine

From Austin, lead developer and owner of X-Plane: I have a write-up a mile long of all the features already done for X-Plane 10, but let’s save all those details for later. Other than a gajillion various flight-model and scenery over-hauls and a near-complete internal re-write to make the code more object-oriented and thus easier […]

X-Plane is my flight simulator because it offers great flight models, excellent graphics, a smooth frame rate, and realistic weather and lighting.

—Captain Jan Vogel
I was determined to get [my private pilot license] . . . the years of using X-Plane saved me a lot of money.

—Brian Lewis
…Once in the air, I was then confident in what I was doing—because I’d been there already, the night before, in X‑Plane!

—Philipp J. Münzel, CFI
X-Plane’s Plane Maker program allows our Embry-Riddle team to very accurately evaluate the performance of the model and subsequent modifications.

—Professor Ray Bédard, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
I landed the aircraft unassisted my on my first flight! My instructor . . . said after 3000 hours of instructing, he only had 1 other student ever do that.

—Braden Boggs