Product Description

DVD Drive Required
Mac OS X v. 10.3 or later
Processor: G4/G5 or Intel @ 1GHz
System Memory: 1GB
Availabe Hard Drive: 60GB
Video Card: 64MB VRAM

X-Plane is the most comprehensive and powerful flight simulator available for the personal computer. X-Plane simulates anything that flies: from single-engine fixed wing props to multi-engine jets; gliders to dirigibles; helicopters to spacecraft to VTOLs such as the V-22 Osprey and AV8-B Harrier.

X-Plane has the most realistic flight model available for personal computers. It comes with subsonic and 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 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! 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 br

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2644 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Masque
• Released on: 2008-06-01
• Platform: Mac OS X

Manufacturer's Description
X-Plane is the most comprehensive and powerful flight simulator available for the personal computer. X-Plane simulates anything that flies: from single-engine fixed wing props to multi-engine jets; gliders to dirigibles; helicopters to spacecraft to VTOLs such as the V-22 Osprey and AV8-B Harrier.

Customer Reviews

Better than I expected
Having recently moved to Mac, I needed something to replace FSX. This is it - excellent graphics, the clouds being the best I've seen. Will take some time to master though.

Needs a powerful Mac and a long learning curve
X-Plane 9 (Mac)

I am using a brand new medium power Mac and it is barely coping with the demands of this game. It responds by making me reduce all the nice visual effects and frame rate down to lowest levels, which is a shame.

I have used MS Flight Sim for many years and have flown a real plane so its not the flight control thats the problem .. its the instructions. These feel as though they have been written by an intelligent but geeky teenager with endless INAPPROPRIATE use of capital letters, exclamation marks !!!! and witty remarks that don't quite work.

Just one example of how the useful is drowned by verbiage: how does one get away from the mouse controlled 3D cockpit? The slightest movement of the mouse (while flying using the joystick) has one's view exclusively on the floor or ceiling or the side window or elsewhere (awkward on finals); where does one find the ordinary fixed view of the cockpit? If its in the umpteen pages of pointlessly wordy instructions then its well concealed.

In summary, superb program, requiring a lot of RAM, both in the computer and the video card, with an instruction manual that needs a good editor.

X-Plane 9
The game itself is great fun, and incredibly detailed. There are loads of planes to fly, and you can chose what scenery you want to be on the game, for example, you could chose to have the UK, USA, canada or whatever country but not upload all 60GB of scenery. You can also chose the amount of detail you want, so wether you want fivers and roads or not. The only reason I am not rating this game a 5-star is simply the fact that Microsoft Flight Simulator has a much better layout and design for choosing what you want when you are flying. The controls can get a bit tedious sometimes, but after some playing they are fine. An absolute must for this game is a joytick. Without it you have to fly with the mouse, which is very difficult.