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Move over Microsoft

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 16
Date: December 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

You think that Microsoft is the only one to make a flight sim? Think again hotshot! X-Plane is the most impressive flight sim I've flown. The realizm level in the game is simple amazing. The best part is that if it's an airport in the continental US and many places abroad it's in this game. Ever heard of Dixon Municipal Airport or Palwaukee Airport in Illinois? Didn't think so, but they are right by my house and I can flight out of them! Hwo cool is that? some graphics are a bit sketchy but the focus of the game isn't that. Plus you can create ground objects. Now you can fly into your house. Mars, you can fly there to. The game alows you to create airplanes of your design, you want a liquid rocket fuel jet engine on you 747, now you can! You create it and the game tells you how it would fly. I can't express the fun I have with this game in words, where else can you fly the spacce shuttle?

Best flightsim available

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: December 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have owned this sim for over a year now (it is only now available in stores and online, outside the developer's site). It is realistic and constantly being upgraded, free, for owners. Excellent graphics and real flight characteristics make it best the rest, I reccomend to any serious pilot, or anyone interested in a quality sim. Plus you know that you are not supporting a giant conglomerate. Laminar Research's X-Plane it an excellent buy, even at twice the price.

X-Plane - The Best Feeling Of Civilian Flight

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: January 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After a bit of research I finally got around to purchasing X-Plane. My first impressions? The best civilian flight simulator on the market today. Yep, looks good and even more importantly feels good. I have no excuse why I waited so long to pick up this outstanding flight simulator. Wafting snow drifts blowing across the runway, rain, lightning, it out performs Microsoft's Flight Simulator line in every way. While this baby has sold for $200 and then was at $79 very recently, I picked up my copy for under $40, and now you can too. If you are a civilian flight sim fan and have gotten enjoyment from Microsoft's Flight Simulator Line, Flight Unlimited or Fly!, you owe it to yourself to check out this constantly improved (and you can download the updates for free from the xplane website, not have to pay for Xplane 2000 etc. like all the other major players). Frame rate is fluid, and a variety of user made aircraft and scenery textures are available for download, just like the other guys. So why haven't you heard more about it? Because you have been blitzed by mega ad campaigns from the other sim players.Get Xplane now, you can fly the world with this one too, but in a much more realistic fashion. Highly recommended!

Real Planes, Real Physics, Real Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: July 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have played a lot a flight sims... it's part of my job. I do work for this little company called Laminar Research which just happens to market a little game called X-Plane. I can't say much for Young's Modulous (yet) but as far as X-Plane goes, I can tell you that it is the very best flight simulator available and here's why: It wasn't designed for Joe who wants to play a flight simulator game- it was designed for people who actually fly airplanes- for people who like real physics- for people who want to fly in REAL TIME weather and take off from their home airport. Austin Meyer, the designer of this game, is a genious- a one man team (plus myself, the puny graphics guy) who single handedly programs the amount of stress of every single section of the airplane. Amazing programing. What gripes could you have? Graphics slightly less than par?... All versions include FREE upgrades and patches and thousands of other planes have been modeled by various fans. Give X-Plane a shot! Trust me. Amazing company, ladies and gentlemen. He gives his very own technical support.) Real Planes, Real Physics, Real Fun. X-Plane. Go for it.

Laminar Reasearch vs. Microsoft

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

X-Plane Is much better that Flight simulator. The Rendering of graphinc and frame rates is so good. I have a 750 MHZ Celoron Proccesser with 64 MB ram + 11MB Graphics Memory. X-plane runs almost perfect. Free Updates too make this a good buy.

You'll forget where you are!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

With extensive realism and eye poping special effects, this game has made its way up to the top of my most used list! Fly at any airport. Even on Mars! The most realistic weather affects too!

Most realistic flightsim you can get

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This flightsim ist the most realistic I have ever seen. The flightmodel is nearly perfect and the graphics are awesome. If you want to buy a good flightsim take this one.

X plane Soars Above The Rest!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

X Plane is an AWSOME game-from the giant 777 to the tiny RC Helicopters its got EVRYTHING!! if Your a beginer this is the simulator for you!!!and its not very complicated.over 7,000 airports make this one-of-a-kind.Even if you cant figure it out at first-give it time.my favorite is the Boieng 777 its a very cool plane. also I love space and with the ability to fly the space shuttle and on mars it adds to my long list of compliments-thanks NASA!!!!!!!!Each plane has its own cockpit. its not a lie-this game does have over 40 aircraft.you can land/takeoff from an aircraft carrier and an oil rig at sea!!! you can also fly a blinp.you customize evrything before the flight-weather-time of day-turbulance-even what altitude the clouds are at!!!from the air the ground looks EXACTLY like it does in a real plane!you can download new aircraft [from the producers] and get lots of flying tips!! with real weather conditions like snow wind and turbulance this game is so realistic you will think your in the real pilots seat!! This is a great flight simulator and I recomend it to anyone who loves the feling of flying!!

X plane Soars Above The Rest!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

X Plane is an AWSOME game-from the giant 777 to the tiny RC Helicopters its got EVRYTHING!! if Your a beginer this is the simulator for you!!!and its not very complicated.over 7,000 airports make this one-of-a-kind.Even if you cant figure it out at first-give it time.my favorite is the Boieng 777 its a very cool plane. also I love space and with the ability to fly the space shuttle and on mars it adds to my long list of compliments-thanks NASA!!!!!!!!Each plane has its own cockpit. its not a lie-this game does have over 40 aircraft.you can land/takeoff from an aircraft carrier and an oil rig at sea!!! you can also fly a blinp.you customize evrything before the flight-weather-time of day-turbulance-even what altitude the clouds are at!!!from the air the ground looks EXACTLY like it does in a real plane!you can download new aircraft at X-plane.com and get lots of flying tips!! with real weather conditions like snow wind and turbulance this game is so realistic you will think your in the real pilots seat!! This is a great flight simulator and I recomend it to anyone who loves the feling of flying!!

wow, but also a CAVEAT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I use version 5.66 that I upgraded to for FREE after I bought X-Plane 5.54 by XICAT. It's awesome, very realistic experience... BUT: you should know that a newer improved version of X-plane (6.xx) is available from www.x-plane.com and if you own a fast computer with a good graphics card you should really get that instead of the discontinued version that XICAT still (!) sells. At X-Plane.com there also is a DEMO available for free!!! So you can check it out yourself.
Happy Flying!

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