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Original Research

Holy original research Batman! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.38.176.141 (talk) 14:45, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

/agreed! Icemotoboy (talk) 22:24, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Seconded - and much of it is looking pretty spammy Smidoid 2:39, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Remarks

It is said that X-Plane is also running on Linux PPC. This is not true, at least today.

About Universal Binary executables to run on PPC as well as Intel Mac, this is true only from version 8.40. As in Europe the boxed version is 8.21, if you don't know this detail you will be disappointed.

Moved from article


Also included in X-Plane is full photographic scenery for North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. This scenery, which is 80% of the Earth, is topographic. Although airports are only shown as their runways and ramps, scenery packages are available on X-Plane's forum.
X-Plane is also known for being a true simulator, not a game. Not even the sky is the limit; You can fly in outer space and on Mars.
X-Plane offers four other applications:
1.Airfoil-Maker: Allows you to fully customize wings, such as on flyable designs of animals
2.Briefer: Allows you to plan a Flight before-hand
3.Plane-Maker: Allows you to create your own aircraft, change someone else's, or update aircrafts from older versions
4.World Maker: allows you to create your own scenery for one place, or create a whole world altogether
Other applications for X-Plane can be found on the forum. A very popular application is a converter that takes scenery packages from Microsoft Flight Simulator and changes them to X-Plane format.
X-Plane also has plug-ins, such as XPushBack X, which "draws" a forklift or other truck that pushes you backwards to get onto a ramp. A big one is XSquawkBox, which allows you to fly online with others, where you can practice formations, have a dogfight, or just observe other planes trafficking as in real life. To help make the experience more real, X-Plane will keep track of the real date and time, and will constantly check the internet for weather results, thus real-time weather. There are plenty of servers, ones where you listen to an ATC and have a true experience with real pilots, and other where you fly to have fun.
X-Plane also comes with a built-in Screenshot command, as well as a video-recorder, however videos do not record the sound, something that has been an issue for awhile, but is bound to be fixed.
Yet another one of the big things X-Plane is known for is the 3D cockpits. Although not all aircraft have these, it has become a big deal and almost every new plane does.

--68.55.235.179 06:46, 7 January 2007 (UTC) D.J. Flores[reply]

I added some of this info again. Don't see why it was removed Marminnetje 20:13, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:72.10.96.132

http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&user=&page=User:72.10.96.132

Blocked due to repeated stupid edits - i.e. adding release notes

Thanks to User:Kingboyk

Reedy Boy 21:45, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This article is getting muddled again. 65.74.13.226 19:27, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This whole article needs a serious rethink or speedy removal. Austin is a terrible self-publicist and his band of dedicated simmers are probably even worse.

Evenblade image

I've replaced the Evenblade image in the article; it was removed by TomXP411 temporarily, and, without trying to second-guess anyone's reasons, not replaced. I feel it's an important image, since creating fictional aircraft is something that can be done only in X-Plane, and this is also why I've displaced the Beluga down: the Evenblade is in the section that discusses the flight model's advantages. Nonetheless, if anyone feels this is a conflict of interest (I created and uploaded the screenshot) feel free to revert. --Scott Wilson 16:51, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I had no problem with the image itself, but the page was getting way too cluttered with screenshots, and it was messing the formatting of the sections. I spent a lot of time re-formatting the article because of those kinds of problesm, and I just couldn't find a spot to re-insert the image where it didn't mess something up. I was also a little concerned about the article becoming a photo gallery and advertisiment for third party XP developers, but that hasn't happened, and the picture DOES look good where you put it. :) -- TomXP411[Talk] 01:30, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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I've moved all the external links here, except for the official one. The external links section is not a place for community links, its the place for official links. It's okay to put some community ones there, but it soon gets excessive. Rather than argue over which links should be there and which shouldn't - its much better just to have the official ones.

  • X-Plane.org Community resource for downloads and forums
  • Plugin SDK Home Page Software Development Kit to make plug-ins
  • X-Plane Gateway Comprehensive Links of X-Plane Community
  • X-Plane.es Spanish language X-Plane portal offering news, downloads, links, and forums.
  • X-Plane.it Italian language X-Plane portal offering news, downloads, links, and forums.
  • x-plane :: hu Hungarian language X-Plane portal offering news, downloads, links, and forums.
  • X-Plane Freeware Project Community resource for forums, downloads and professional commercial airliners.

Please feel free to discuss. Icemotoboy (talk) 03:21, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Release date

Where in the article should we mention the expected release date of X-Plane 10 (2011)?

In the interview with Austin Meyer: [1] "Regarding X-Plane 10: unsure, but shooting for the top of next year!"

Community

I see that a user has added a new 'Community' section
Personally I think that this section is not really needed for a couple of reasons, first it does not add much to the article itself, it has no references, What does it really tell the reader, that there is a forum or two dedicated to X-plane?
Secondly the links themselves, X-Plane.org is probably the best known forum whereas x-pilot.com is far, far smaller, even the x-plan forum of flightsim.com is bigger, shall we not list that forum rather/as well?
I was wondering what others though, shall we remove the section altogether?, remove the external links? add other forums? or leave it as it is? FFMG (talk) 14:09, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Version_10

Is this section really needed? While there is no doubt there will be a future version all the details given in the section are fairly vague.
Version 10 of the X-Plane series is set to go on sale around the first quarter of 2011. It will be one of, if not, the most realistic flight simulator for public use. It should not cost more than a normal video game, $35-$80.
Those are prety vague, (and maybe even peacock terms), terms. I mean what price range is $35-$80 anyway?
This looks like WP:OR taken from forum posts, (not sure where the price and take was guessed from), I propose we remove it until we have some more concrete, _referenced_, information. FFMG (talk) 06:58, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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