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X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Mackrick » Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:44 pm

x-plane has to be the best flight sim out there today......http://x-plane.com/default.html

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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Mackrick » Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:47 pm

Forgot to mention you can get it for PC / Mac / iPod / iPhone \:D/
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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby IanM » Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:53 pm

We used to play with that at work in our spare time and it was excellent :)
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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Mayfly » Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:22 pm

IanM wrote:We used to play with that at work in our spare time and it was excellent :)


Ian with the amount of time you spend on here on here you're not in the RAF as well are you are you :))

must admit Rick the graphics look good
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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby RLN » Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:59 pm

I used to have Xplane a long time ago, but it didn't look like that. Might have to treat myself. What spec is your PC? Just so I know if it will look as good on mine.


Just visited their website. Thought you were posting screenshots from your PC #-o
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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Mackrick » Sun Oct 19, 2008 4:54 pm

can post some of my lads as he uses it most.
We both use Macs not PC's btw :)

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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby RLN » Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:03 pm

Thanks. Definitely have to treat myself :-bd
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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Mackrick » Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:17 pm

SM just for you..

VC10 in X-Plane flight Sim.

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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Mackrick » Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:40 pm

My lad has taken on the development of the VC10 for x-plane from the original designer and is currently sorting out the flight characteristics and the position of the pods on the wing. Starting to look like thereal thing now.
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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Saracenman » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:06 pm

have to say Rick, that's MOST impressive.

i just wish i had a FAR better graphics card on this 'ere laptop so that i could whack the settings up to that level of quality :(

< makes mental shopping list of pooter with 10GB RAM, you-can't-bend-it graphics card, B-I-G monitor - and a surplus VC10 nose-section to play it all in :D >

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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Cj27 » Sun Oct 26, 2008 2:18 pm

Mackrick wrote:My lad has taken on the development of the VC10 for x-plane from the original designer and is currently sorting out the flight characteristics and the position of the pods on the wing. Starting to look like thereal thing now.


Yep thats me...

If got 3 X-plane screenshots for you all...
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B738 climbing.

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C27J parked.

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Twin otter shut down at sunset.


and also my new X-plane movie...


So what do you all think?
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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Mackrick » Sun Oct 26, 2008 2:38 pm

Can't see the movie :(
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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Saracenman » Sun Oct 26, 2008 2:40 pm

nor me :(
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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Saracenman » Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:30 pm

teensy weensy thought here - realising that MS and Mac are totally different, and that FS9/FSX are incompatible with each other - could we FS players link up with X-plane FS through FSHostClient? ;)

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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Mayfly » Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:25 pm

graphics look good Cj but for the video all I see is a white square :(
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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Cj27 » Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:15 pm

Saracenman wrote:teensy weensy thought here - realising that MS and Mac are totally different, and that FS9/FSX are incompatible with each other - could we FS players link up with X-plane FS through FSHostClient? ;)
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Yes. there is even a Virtual airline that operates in both FS and X-plane.
http://www.freeworld-airways.net
Have a look around that site for more information.
As far as i can remember we X-plane users use this...
http://www.ivao.org/hq/

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Yes sorry about the video not working. should be fixed now.
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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Mayfly » Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:19 pm

hey thats good............. all working now
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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Saracenman » Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:51 pm

Cj27 wrote:
Saracenman wrote:teensy weensy thought here - realising that MS and Mac are totally different, and that FS9/FSX are incompatible with each other - could we FS players link up with X-plane FS through FSHostClient? ;)
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Yes. there is even a Virtual airline that operates in both FS and X-plane.
http://www.freeworld-airways.net
Have a look around that site for more information.
As far as i can remember we X-plane users use this...
http://www.ivao.org/hq/


have you tried FSHostClient to see if it works with X-Plane? as you Mac users are probably in the minority ( :p ) it might be worth a go \:D/

most of us already log in to the same server IP as detailed here :D

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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Mackrick » Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:23 pm

Here is an X-plane screen shot from my son

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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Saracenman » Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:30 pm

:-o it looks like a photo Mackrick!
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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Mackrick » Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:38 pm

No photo but screenshot from the latest version of X-plane.
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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Saracenman » Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:41 pm

i realise that - but it's just SO realistic! :-o
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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Mackrick » Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:44 pm

So are the flight dynamics.
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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby RLN » Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:23 pm

That is amazing. What chip and graphics card is he running?
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Re: X-Plane Flight Sim

Postby Mackrick » Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:15 pm

He is running a standard 20 inch iMac 2.6GHZ 2GB RAM NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics.
If you look at the X-plane website it will give you the PC Specs required to run it.
It does run just as well on my MacBook 2.4GHZ 2 GB RAM Intel GMA X3100 graphics.
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