So what do you get when you cross some nerdy equipment, a video camera, an RC aircraft, and the dream to fly? this video from France. As the person on the ground turns their head, the camera turns to “see” what is happening from the perspective of the RC aircraft.
The latest release of X-Plane (currently 8.50 RC-1) has built in support to use a real Garmin G1000 connected to the simulator! The G1000 has an ethernet port that you can use to connect the Garmin to your computer. Then from within X-Plane you can turn on the hardware option for the G1000 and use […]
The Russian Space Agency is soliciting volunteers who would like to experience what it might be like to travel to Mars and back. Sound like fun? Well be prepared to give up 520 days of your life for the experience. To qualify you must be between 25 and 50 (I’m good there) and you get […]
Laminar Research, the authors of X-Plane, have developed a new simulator for the Avidyne PFD called AvioApp. AvioApp is a separate program which can connect to X-Plane over a LAN and simulates the Avidyne PFD.
Future versions will reportedly also simulate the Avidyne MFD as well as the Garmin 1000. You can download a demo […]
While VATSIM does have a decent amount of traffic, it does not yet replicate the volume of actual “real world” traffic. So how do you train a VATSIM controller? Virtual fly-ins can help, but when you really need lots of traffic, ACSim Sweatbox is here to help.
The ACSim (short for AirCraft Simulator) is a program […]
Austin has announced results from the Popular Mechanics Design Contest on the X-Plane website. Some of the entries have been made available for download and I can’t wait to take a few of them for a flight around the pattern.
I’m really interested in trying Pat Kelbe’s flying wing and Skyray 9. The design Tom Hays […]
Unless you are new to this site you will know I’m a huge fan of Burt Rutan and his aircraft designs. Tonight on the Discovery Channel (at least in my area) there will be a documentary called “Black Sky, Winning the X-Prize”. (check schedule)
The show will focus on Burt Rutan and SpaceSchipOne in their attempt […]
This email came in from Austin, the author of X-Plane. I thought I would pass it along here for any X-Plane Plane builders that might not subscribe to xplane-news. I’d love to enter something myself but I doubt I will have enough free time before the Feb 28 deadline.
Popular Mechanics is getting ready to do […]
VATSIM announced last week they have removed voice restrictions in VATSIM to make it the preferred method of communications with controllers. This allows all controllers ranked S1 and above to use voice whenever practical and no longer requiring “voice ratings”. The effective date of change will be March 13.
Pardon the short, inconsequential post but I find it humorous that X-Plane is currently in the number 1 position on Google when you search for flight simulator x. You can see it
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