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X-Plane Demo Released for Linux

Posted by Zonk on from the penguins-can-fly-now-too! dept.

sracer9 writes "The Linux demo for X-Plane has been released. Download it here. Austin Meyer of Laminar Research, the creator of X-Plane, has been reported on previously. The port to Linux has been rumoured for some time, and it's great to see it's finally arriving."

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  1. What's nice is... by advocate_one · · Score: 2, Informative

    it's a bittorrent download... someone's got sense... 21 seeds already... and no comments yet... :)

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  3. Re:Too late? by Make · · Score: 3, Informative

    flightgear is a nice project, but it can't bear comparison with X-Plane, by far. X-Plane has its focus on a physically exact simulation of aerodynamics. when you design a new plane in "normal" flight simulators, you have to design both the visuals and give many many hints about its behaviour. in X-Plane, you define the shape, and X-Plane calculates the rest. I was surprised how exactly it simulates the gliders I have already piloted in RealLife(TM) (I'm glider pilot for 11 years now - glider pilots are the ones who really know how the plane works, because they need to)

    X-Plane is the only good flight simulator I know of. MS FlightSim is good to train radio navigation (it used to focus mainly on navigation before it became "mainstream"), but it gives you a really bad idea of the behaviour of the simulated planes. flightgear isn't better. Flight Unlimited (about ten years ago) used to be one of the best, and there is the German "Segelflug-Simulator", but neither have the simulation quality of X-Plane.

    I am really happy they've done the Linux port, torrenting at 40 kB/s currently :]

  4. Re:Too late? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Flight Gear is junk compared to X-Plane. X-Plane is used in some FAA certified full motion simulators.