Talk:X-Plane (simulator)
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It is said that X-Plane is also running on Linux PPC. This is not true, at least today.
About Universal Binary executables to run on PPC as well as Intel Mac, this is true only from version 8.40. As in Europe the boxed version is 8.21, if you don't know this detail you will be disappointed.
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Also included in X-Plane is full photographic scenery for North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. This scenery, which is 80% of the Earth, is topographic. Although airports are only shown as their runways and ramps, scenery packages are available on X-Plane's forum.
X-Plane is also known for being a true simulator, not a game. Not even the sky is the limit; You can fly in outer space and on Mars.
X-Plane offers four other applications:
1.Airfoil-Maker: Allows you to fully customize wings, such as on flyable designs of animals
2.Briefer: Allows you to plan a Flight before-hand
3.Plane-Maker: Allows you to create your own aircraft, change someone else's, or update aircrafts from older versions
4.World Maker: allows you to create your own scenery for one place, or create a whole world altogether
Other applications for X-Plane can be found on the forum. A very popular application is a converter that takes scenery packages from Microsoft Flight Simulator and changes them to X-Plane format.
X-Plane also has plug-ins, such as XPushBack X, which "draws" a forklift or other truck that pushes you backwards to get onto a ramp. A big one is XSquawkBox, which allows you to fly online with others, where you can practice formations, have a dogfight, or just observe other planes trafficking as in real life. To help make the experience more real, X-Plane will keep track of the real date and time, and will constantly check the internet for weather results, thus real-time weather. There are plenty of servers, ones where you listen to an ATC and have a true experience with real pilots, and other where you fly to have fun.
X-Plane also comes with a built-in Screenshot command, as well as a video-recorder, however videos do not record the sound, something that has been an issue for awhile, but is bound to be fixed.
Yet another one of the big things X-Plane is known for is the 3D cockpits. Although not all aircraft have these, it has become a big deal and almost every new plane does.
--68.55.235.179 06:46, 7 January 2007 (UTC) D.J. Flores
I added some of this info again. Don't see why it was removed Marminnetje 20:13, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&user=&page=User:72.10.96.132
Blocked due to repeated stupid edits - ie adding release notes
Thanks to User:Kingboyk
Reedy Boy 21:45, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
This article is getting muddled again. 65.74.13.226 19:27, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Evenblade image
I've replaced the Evenblade image in the article; it was removed by TomXP411 temporarily, and, without trying to second-guess anyone's reasons, not replaced. I feel it's an important image, since creating fictional aircraft is something that can be done only in X-Plane, and this is also why I've displaced the Beluga down: the Evenblade is in the section that discusses the flight model's advantages. Nonetheless, if anyone feels this is a conflict of interest (I created and uploaded the screenshot) feel free to revert. --Scott Wilson 16:51, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
- I had no problem with the image itself, but the page was getting way too cluttered with screenshots, and it was messing the formatting of the sections. I spent a lot of time re-formatting the article because of those kinds of problesm, and I just couldn't find a spot to re-insert the image where it didn't mess something up. I was also a little concerned about the article becoming a photo gallery and advertisiment for third party XP developers, but that hasn't happened, and the picture DOES look good where you put it. :) -- TomXP411[Talk] 01:30, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
