X-Plane - An Obsession For Realism

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday July 23, 2003 @07:02PM from the taxi-take-off-cabin-lights dept.

caseih writes "Popular Science is running an article on Austin Meyer, the creator of the popular X-Plane flight simulator. Although not an open source project, X-Plane has a devoted community of flight enthusiasts and developers who are striving to make it the most realistic flight simulator ever. In fact, flight characteristics are calculated in real time from aircraft design data, not static tables like MS Flight Simulator. PopSci has a neat picture showing X-Plane calculating the lift-drag vectors in real-time across an aircraft. Meyer's quest for realism in his simulations dominates the development and use of X-Plane."

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Flightgear Anyone? by niko9 · 2003-07-23 19:27 · Score: 5, Informative

I am not familiar with X plane , but I wonder how it compares to the Flightgear project. One of the advantages of that project being open source was extensibilty. The project has all sorts of modding potential.

apt-get install flightgear for all you deb heads.
runs on win32 also