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X-Plane - World’s Most Comprehensive and Powerful SIM for Personal Computers

Discussion in 'News' started by GPS, Jul 18, 2012.

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    Hey your Real Flight and Phoenix SIM owners, any idea how this compares?

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    I've played the demo. It is intended to be an accurate flight sim for full-scale planes (airliners). It is the first step for pilot training after ground school and before actual air time. It doesn't work well with our RC transmitters. Instead it is setup to make use computer-connected flight yokes, pedals, throttles, and instrument modules like the Saitek Pro Flight system.

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    X-Plane looks really cool.  How did you like it compared to Real Flight or Phoenix?  I forgot which one you have.

    I believe they said that the free version will let you fly for 10 minutes each time you start the program.
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    The realism is amazing! But, as I stated in my first post, it doesn't work well with our RC transmitters. I wasn't able to properly map the channels from my Tx to the program but I successfully made several flights and completely confused my thumbs to what I am used to. I think for my purposes, I'll stick with Phoenix and Real Flight (I have both).
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