X-Plane has the most realistic flight model available for personal computers. It comes with subsonic & supersonic flight dynamics, simulating aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic SR-71 and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie.
X-Plane comes with 29 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), and several hundred more are freely downloadable from the internet.
X-Plane includes scenery for the entire continental U.S.
You can land at any of thousands of airports, as well as test your mettle on aircraft carriers, helipads on building tops, frigates that pitch & 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 & clouds are available for an instrument flying challenge, and thermals are available for the gliders! X-Plane can download real weather data from the internet, allowing you to fly in actual current conditions.
X-Plane also has detailed failure-modeling, with 35 systems that can be failed manually, or randomly when you least expect it. You can fail instruments, engines, flight controls, and landing gear at any moment.
X-Plane includes Plane-Maker which allows you to create your own airplanes, and World-Maker which lets you create your own scenery. Also included is Weather Briefer which produces a weather briefing based on actual weather conditions downloaded.
System:
Windows XP or Vista / Processor Any 2 GHz or more / System memory 1GB / Availiable Hard drive 60GB / Video Card 64 MB.
Recommended:USB Joystick or Yoke / Video 256 MB ATI series 7000 or better/ Nividia Quadro series / Nividia Geforce 4.
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