![]() ![]() These digital flight instruments seem to have taken over the scene over the last decade and there are tutorials out there on YouTube on how to use the real ones as well as the X-Plane equivalent (labeled X-Plane 1000). What appears to be a near staple of general aviation aircraft these days is the twin panel Garmin G1000 series display. Using the navigation system The “X-Plane 1000” navigation console can pop up into a 2D interface for ease of interaction. IL-2 remains the king of actually making you feel like you’re flying… but this is pretty good and the SF50 is meant to be a fairly easy aircraft to handle. I may have to check one out sometime.įlying dynamics are also very good although I have to say that the aircraft doesn’t feel quite as alive as in IL-2: Great Battles nor DCS World. The platform itself can support far more complex systems modeling and I’ve watched videos and done some reading about some of these more complex aircraft. ![]() In many ways it feels like IL-2’s system is about the same for user complexity but my sense is that systems modeling (perhaps beyond the engine) in these default X-Plane types is not that deep. Flip a few more switches and the aircraft’s exterior door closes, parking brake is released, lights are turned on, and away you go. Click the starter button and the jet engine comes to life. Turn on two batteries and the systems start up. The Cirrus SF50, as my first type that I’m really checking out, is already a fairly straight forward aircraft in real life to start up (I watched a couple of videos featuring the real life jet) and in X-Plane 11 its dead easy. X-Plane 11’s aircraft certainly have 3D cockpits (something they didn’t have in earlier iterations) that are clickable, however, systems modeling on these aircraft is fairly light. From cold start to flying around From the left seat of the Cirrus SF50 in X-Plane 11.Ĭoming from series like IL-2 and DCS World have given me some expectations on everything from flying to fidelity of systems modeling and I was curious to see where the default aircraft that ship with X-Plane 11 sit on the spectrum. The first aircraft I’ve decided to learn is the egg shaped Cirrus Vision SF50 – a 7-seat, very light jet that appeals to me as a fun aircraft to get started with. X-Plane has had a good reputation over the year’s and the latest updates seem to have caught the wider attention of the flight sim community so I wanted to really see what all the fuss was about. ![]() During the recent Steam sale I picked up Laminar Research’s X-Plane 11 as I expand into the realm of the civil aviation flight simulation. ![]()
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