X-Plane 10.03b6 - Ultra-realistic flight simulator.. (Updater)

X-Plane 10.03b6 - Ultra-realistic flight simulator.. (Updater): "

X-Plane is the world's most comprehensive, powerful flight simulator, and has the most realistic flight model available for personal computers.

Welcome to the world of props, jets, single- and multi-engine airplanes, as well as gliders, helicopters and VTOLs such as the V-22 Osprey and AV8-B Harrier.

X-Plane comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, sporting aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic SR-71 and Space Shuttle. X-Plane comes with 35 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several thousand more are freely downloadable from the internet. (See www.X-Plane.org as a good place to start).

X-Plane scenery is world-wide, with scenery for the entire planet Earth between 74 degrees north to 60 degrees south latitude. We also have MARS scenery! (thanks to the Mars Orbiting Laser Altimeter, which mapped that planet's elevation). On Earth, you can land at any of over 33,000 airports, as well as test your mettle on aircraft carriers, helipads on building tops, frigates that pitch and roll in the waves, and oil rigs.

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, and thermals are available for the gliders! Real weather conditions can be downloaded from the internet, allowing you to fly in the actual weather that currently exists at the location of flight!

X-Plane also has detailed failure-modeling, with multitudes of systems that can be failed manually or randomly, when you least expect it! You can fail instruments, engines, flight controls, landing gear, or dozens of other systems at any moment.

While X-Plane is the world's most COMPREHENSIVE flight sim, your purchase also comes with Plane-Maker (to create your own airplanes) Airfoil-Maker (allowing users to create airfoil performance profiles), and Weather Briefer (to get a weather briefing before the flight if you use real weather conditions downloaded from the internet).

X-Plane is also extremely customizable, allowing you to easily create textures, sounds, and instrument panels for your own airplanes that you design or the planes that come with the sim.

X-Plane's accuracy (in flight model), scope (in aircraft and terrain coverage), versatility (in aircraft type and weather conditions), add-on programs (in aircraft and scenery editors), customizability, downloadable aircraft, and downloadable scenery makes it the ULTIMATE flight simulation experience for Macintosh, Windows, and Linux platforms.

BE SURE TO TURN ON THE >BETA< option in the installer before you run it to get the beta!

The demo contains a limited scenery area to keep the download size reasonable. It will run for 10 minutes before it begins to ignore the user's input, at which point the simulator must be restarted to fly more.

Version 10.03b6:

ATC:

• Fixed bug preventing lowercase routings from working
• Fixed numerous crashes in the ATC system.
• Fixed bug causing AI planes to suddenly taxi through a hold short line wildly.
• Fixed bug causing the view to change while using the arrows to navigate ATC menus.
• Adjusted timers to let users communicate with ATC more easily.
• Adjusted "off course" tolerances to make it less annoying.
• Improved automatic layout generation at KTCM (and hopefully other airports that are long and thin)

Aircraft:

• CRJ and other aicraft cockpits should work at night in HDR mode on OS X Lion.
• Sim is more tolerant of missing textures - the rules now match v9 for OBJs.
• Slight improvement to braking model to aid in erroneous aircraft drifting.
• Baron 58: Added cockpit night lighting. Use the four lighting knobs under the copilot yoke to adjust.
• F4 Phantom: Adjusted the flight model for better in-flight handling and more reasonable manners on approach and landing.
• Fixed seg fault in weight/weapons window.

Rendering:

• Fixed cut-off global lights on ATI hardware.

If X-Plane 10 does not prompt you to update automatically, pick "About X-Plane" from the About Menu. If your copy is out of date, X-Plane will prompt you to update.

• Mac OS X 10.5 or later
• a 2 GHz, dual-core CPU
• 2 GB of RAM
• a DirectX 9-capable video card with 128 MB of on-board, dedicated video RAM (VRAM). See here for compatibility and graphics cards.

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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)