X-Plane 10 Regional North America - PC

XPlane 10 is a very realistic flight simulator, which is very flexible and extendable. First, I tried installing xplane in a I7 notebook with Intel graphic card. The animation was so bad, that I can't even take-off. Then I tried in another computer which had a slow CPU and a low end nvidia graphic card. To my surprise, animation worked great in this computer. With normal texture rendering flying experience was awesome. Here is my setup. CH Combatstick is my joystick, moving map on an android tablet and panels handy on my android phone. Here is how I setup the moving map. XPlane can be configured to send the coordinates and heading to an Android tablet running an app called 'Xplane to GPS'. This service app will receive XPlane coordinates and give mock location to other apps. OpenFlightGPS is another app that shows the plane coordinates in sectional charts. Here is my update after flying for couple of weeks: Installed in a newer I5 Windows8 laptop with Intel HD 4000 graphics. Without turning down any rendering options, rendering is awesome. Even more realistic, with more details in the scenes. Initial loading and changing planes/airports is much faster. It is packaged with only few older planes. But, you can download all the latest and greatest air-crafts online. I downloaded King Air 350, which is a very fast twin engine prop plane. You can grab real-time weather in your route. Another feature I love is you can scale the ground speed. For example, you can set the ground speed to 4X. You will reach your destination 4 times faster then it will take otherwise. There are many more aspects to learn.

This product needs to come with a pre-purchase warning label. Unless you have a very fast gaming PC, don't buy it. Admittedly, I tried to load it on an older XP computer. After updating the operating system to Windows 7, adding 4 GB RAM and adding a new video card to get past the video limitation of the motherboard mounted video chip (64 MB, 128 MD minimum required); I was finally able to load the program. For those that need details, the computer is an older HP Pavilion s7600n with a AMD 6400 3500+ 2.2 Ghz CPU. Unfortunately, the program doesn't function very well on my desktop. For an hour or two, the only thing that I saw with some regularity is an occasional glimpse of a screen shot of the view from the left seat of a TBD jet liner, but mostly a black screen with 'X System (Not Responding)' and the computer busy symbol. I finally got into the Settings menu to try to dumb it down to fit my system; but it slow going. There are a lot of gaps in my knowledge of setting this program to figure out to get the program to run smoothly. It looks like it has a lot of great features, but not really able to take full advantage with the limitations of my PC. Maybe I can find a Real Dummies Book for XPlane to help. I am very disappointed after reading all the reviews and even have the X Plane app on my Ipad. I know the computer is old; but unless you have a high powered gaming PC or possibly a Cray; buyer be warned.

It was quite disappointing to discover my two-year-old hand-built XP Gaming computer was barely able to load this behemoth... I'd heard so much about all the neat things that X-Plane could do I was exceedingly frustrated to discover that I'll apparently need a new machine to enjoy it... my other option may be to drop back a version, but I was surprised that after all these years of consumers and gamers alike complaining to the geek-class about their bloat-ware, that message hasn't gotten through... oh well, lesson learned, I'm done complaining. X-Plane is clearly different than FSX - a bit like transition from NASCAR-2 to Grand Prix Legends, for those who remember that transition. The physics model in X-Plane seems much closer to what a real plane behaves, although I've got about half the stuff dumbed down for my machine. The keyboard and joystick commands are strange to me after twenty some years of FS -- practically all changed; probably keeps them out of intellectual-property hot water with Microsoft, but is yet another hurdle for the fledgling X-Plane user. So far after three weeks I haven't completed the transition so I'm not really flying as much as having my nose buried in the pdf file - what's this with no documentation in a program that doesn't allow split screen; user unfriendly for the X-Plane neophyte... Would I buy it again, absolutely... the graphics I can see are wonderful and I'm looking forward to eventually actually flying. The anti-geek in me is not entertained by all the garbage that one has to go through - indeed a real plane seems far simpler, unless one aspires to flying buses and cargo birds - but what the heck, the price is right and eventually I'll get there. So far only three stars, but I'm adding one because of my high-hopes...

This may be a good program if you grew up with it but after coming from Microsoft flight sim 2004,flightsim x and DCS this program is really not user friendly to get into and fly. Many of the aircraft are not complete and do not handle in a realistic way. I am not a pilot but I have flown ultralights and have flown in many other types of aircraft before and this software is not realistic. The scenery is great to look at in some areas but that does little when the planes do not function properly. How can the instruments controls be so different between the two sim makers and xplanes way of adjusting them to me is just, well, maybe I shouldn't say it here. The graphics in both of Microsoft's flight Sims are maybe not as good as xplane in appearance but they work well and I have a 64 bit computer with a great graphics card and an older Processor. I can max graphics in Flightsim x but not x plane without glitches. X plane makers talk about how great their graphics are and they do look more realistic than flightsim x but in my area there are large lakes, Summit and Paxson that don't even show up as lakes, that isn't very realistic in my book. With all the frustration I am having with this program just trying to figure it out and I haven't even got into the atc part of it yet I would not have bought it. I cannot understand why anyone would want to write a software this complicated to figure out and use and try to sell it to the public. When I want to fly I want a Sim that is realistic and easy to learn and use not one that you had to be bottle fed on to figure out. Microsoft's programs may not be supported anymore but at least you can use them and enjoy them and figure them out without trying to obtain a software degree while doing it and their planes that come with the software are complete planes with many others to download for free. Some of the x plane models are not complete and do not have functioning gauges and switches. I can't speak for others but I have tried it and I don't like it and I can't recommend it to anyone, especially a newbie to flight Sims. I still say that Flight Sim 2004 is probably the best one built, it works and works well. I do not work for Microsoft I just like software that works, that's my opinion and review, nothing more. Hope it helps you in your decision as to wither to buy it or not.

I'm a long time FS2004 flier. I started my sim career using Sub Logic Flight Sim II on the Apple IIc. I progressed though various flight sims including FS5, Fly, Fly II, Flight Unlimited (all three) and FS2004. I spent almost a decade flying FS2004. I spent hundreds of dollars buying add-ons, GoFlight modules, etc. When I built a new computer system, I decided to try X-Plane 10 demo. I tried various X-Plane demos, mostly for about 10-20 minutes then never using it again. However with my newest computer setup, I could run X-Plane with very high details and fluid frame rates. This convinced me to abandon FS2004 and go forward with X-Plane. I did reinstall FS2004 and my add-ons, but after flying with X-Plane, FS2004 just looked so "dated". X-Plane is a different simulator. It was a little difficult getting used to how it flies and specifically how to interface with the simulator. The keyboard and joystick commands were almost all different. Once I got out of my FS2004 habits, X-Plane really came alive for me. I bought this version (North American) because I didn't want to install 50 GB of world scenery when I mostly fly in the US. I saved about $30 over the cost of the world scenery version. I spent that extra $30 buying a few add-ons for X-Plane. Now you cannot compare FSX or FS2004 directly with X-Plane mainly because most people have advanced custom installs of Flight Simulator, and X-Plane out of the box is not exactly as impressive. But being recently released and actively developed, X-Plane supports some nice new technologies such as multiprocessors and advanced graphics options. I could take advantage of my new computer setup using X-Plane and once I spent about a week tweaking the options, I had X-Plane looking awesome and running great. I am impressed with the scenery, the mech data, the textures and mostly, how the aircraft fly. I've flown a real plane a few times as a student, and in my not-expert opinion, X-Plane aircraft behave in a realistic manner. Not that FS2004 wasn't realistic; I'm not comparing FS2004 and X-Plane directly. It's just that X-Plane "feels" right. I am very happy with my X-Plane purchase. After installing a few add-ons, and a lot of freeware add-ons, I am satisfied that my X-Plane experience will match and eventually exceed my FS2004 experience. I've even taken up airport design - it's a known "issue" with X-Plane that most airports are just runways and taxiways - no buildings. So I've started adding them to the airports I fly into. X-Plane has a free downloadable world editor that allows you to simply point-and-click and add buildings, hangars, aircraft, etc to your airports. I've made a few airports that I think look plausible and spent maybe an hour or so on each one. X-Plane has a free demo that I used for a few weeks to make sure I really wanted to buy it. I suggest you use the demo and make sure you can configure it to your system and be happy with the results before spending money on it. If you are a FSX or FS2004 flier, you cannot download X-Plane and fly it for 10 minutes - you need to set it up, tweak it (much as you did with FSX or FS2004), make it run nicely on your system, then judge it. And you cannot judge it against FSX or FS2004 - judge it on it's own merits. You will find a lot of positives in X-Plane, and some negatives. You will want to say "FS2004 did this" and "FSX does that" - avoid these comparisons. Just judge the flight sim based on how it runs on your system, how it feels to fly, and what it looks like. This is what I did. Previous to X-Plane 10, I downloaded the demo, compared it to FS2004 and said "X-Plane isn't like FS2004" and deleted it from my computer. This time around, I gave it a fair shot, played the demo for a few weeks and then bought this version (which was cheaper than the world scenery version). Going forward, X-Plane is the future. It's currently being developed and advanced. It is supported and being actively worked on. Recently the developer added 64-bit support. You can email him and ask questions or make suggestions. X-Plane has only a few developers, but they respond to emails and forum postings all the time. You are buying the latest flight simulation product, not an old, unsupported and no longer developed product. As I stated, I just built a new computer system, and X-Plane rocks on it. My previous system, X-Plane was marginal at best. But after my hardware upgrades, X-Plane looks and flies great. FS2004 of course runs excellent on my new system, but it's 10 year old limitations are obvious compared to X-Plane (this is my only comparison). My system is an AMD Fx-6300, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD and Nvidia GTX660. It's a fairly powerful setup admittedly, but it handles X-Plane at high resolution and maximum textures at great framerates. In fact, after I installed X-Plane and tweaked the graphics, I disabled the frame rate counter and never looked at it again. There was no need - X-Plane runs great, so it didn't matter if I was getting 25 fps or 50. All of my hardware works with X-Plane including my GoFlight modules, my Desktop Aviator module, and joystick. If you are on the fence about X-Plane, and you are currently an FSX or FS2004 flier, do yourself a favor and try the demo. Not just for 10 minutes - fly with it for a week or two. Tweak it, make it run and look nice, configure your joystick, etc. If after playing with the demo for a few weeks you just don't like it for whatever reason, then delete the X-Plane folder from your drive and there's no loss to you (X-Plane installs in a folder - no registry entries, no installing files to Program Files, etc). My experience with X-Plane converted me from FS2004. And only because I gave the demo a fair shot, and didn't compare it to FS2004. My recommendation is for you to do the same. My hardware: AMD FX-6300 - 8 GB RAM - SSD - GTX660 - GoFlight modules - Desktop Aviator module - Saitek Aviator Joystick

Ok, some said give it a fair shot. I did. I set up my joystick, tweeked all the settings, and downloaded a whole bunch of GA planes, utilities and scenery. I flew Xplane 10 exclusively for over a month. I really liked the flight dynamics. To me it felt more realistic than FSX. That for me is a strong plus! That said, I had many issues with downloaded planes, it loads slower than FSX on my system, the aircraft graphics are not as good, not to mention far fewer aircraft options all around, I even bought a few payware planes. My main gripe is that I can't find scenery anywhere near the quality that I have for my area (western Arizona) compared to FSX. I really do love the flight dynamics, but I'm back to FSX.

Loaded fast and seems to wrok

If you are just getting into it, be patient. It takes some time to setup and getting it up and running. It most certainly does not work out of the box. I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos and read a lot of articles on x-plane.org to set it up the way I need it. Once it is running it works as advertised. My landings improved vastly simply by drilling in procedures on this flight sim. One important piece of advice: Buy the best gaming computer you can justify and never let the frame rate drop under 25FPS 50 FPS is preferred to make it real. Also look at the Saitek Cessna products and the TrackIR Head tracking.

Malisimo y superdificil de instalar y operar,y eso que solo tiene 2 discos, ya me imagino con 8, decepcionado pense que era una buena compra, ademas anuncian uno global de 64 bits y mandan uno regional north america que no se puede operar bien ...

I love X-Plane 10. I've been reading reviews for a while and I decided to try it myself. Boy am I glad I did ! As close to flying a real aircraft as possible. I would recommend X-Plane 10 to anyone who has an interest in flying or aviation in general. Very realistic.

The scenery is not bad, but it's missing a lot of details, you can download a lot of it for free through scenery projects, but it takes a little now how and a lot of 3rd party add ons. The flight characteristics seems top notch though.

NO ME HA LLEGADO Y LO PEDÍ HACE VARIAS SEMANAS!!! NO PUEDA COMENTAR MÁS DE ESTE PRODUCTO ESPERO PODAMOS TENER RESPUESTA

Il ne fonctionne carrement pas. La presentation est mauvaise. Bref je deconseille