X-Plane’s scenery includes more than 18,000 airports, as well as aircraft carriers, helipads on rooftops and oil rigs, and even NASA-generated terrain on Mars. This one shows the avionics panel as well as the exterior of “the-jet” by Cirrus, which is in a roll. Avionics vendors also use X-Plane: Garmin has a flight-training device built around a three-screen G1000 panel connected to a PC running the program. No other home simulator has that distinction. Each subsequent version offers vastly increased capability, and because of the extremely flexible and accurate way the planes are treated, X-Plane has been approved by the FAA to drive several commercial simulators that can be used to log time toward a license.
Twelve years ago, I bought X-Plane 1.0, the work of one pilot, aeronautical engineer and programmer, Austin Meyer. True, simulators can be fun to play with, but X-Plane is much more than a game. You may view a home flight simulator as akin to a game.
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