About:
X-Plane is a flight simulator that reads in the geometric shape of any aircraft and then figures out how that aircraft will fly. It does this via an engineering process called "blade element theory", which involves breaking the aircraft down into many small elements and then finding the forces on each little element many times per second. These forces are then converted into accelerations, which are then integrated to velocities and positions. This gives X-Plane the most realistic flight model available for personal computers.

Author:
Austin Meyer <austin (at) x (dash) plane (dot) com> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.51/10.00 (8 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.x-plane.com/
Purchase:
http://www.x-plane.com/order.html
Mirror site:
http://www.boostair.ch/pub/
Demo site:
http://www.x-plane.com/demo.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Environment]		MacOS X, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
[Network Environment]		IP, IP :: IPv4
[Operating System]		MacOS, MacOS X, Microsoft :: Windows, POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		Education :: Computer Aided Instruction (CAI), Games/Entertainment, Games/Entertainment :: Simulation, Scientific/Engineering, Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
[Translations]		English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Stable	8.15	21-Jun-2005	Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
Beta	8.15 Release-Candidate-3	20-Jun-2005	Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial