X-Plane is the world’s most comprehensive and powerful flight simulator for personal computers, and it offers the most realistic flight model available. Sign up for the free course to get the most out of X-Plane. shoot approaches to your favorite runways,.dogfight against your friends or X-Plane’s artificial intelligence,.
By signing up, you’ll be able to learn all the most important features of X‑Plane at your own pace, without having to search through the manual for the feature you’re interested in. If you would like to receive a free guide to many of the most important features of X-Plane, you can sign up for our free email course. For a PDF version of this manual, use an HTML to PDF converter such as. To search for a specific term or set of words, press “ctrl” (“command” on a Mac) + “f” then start typing to be taken to the term anywhere in the document. To use this manual, you can jump to a section by clicking its title in the table of contents on the side. Manuals for specific aircraft, and the GPS or FMS are also available in the in the simulator install, or on the X-Plane website. The latest version will always be available online on the X‑Plane website. This is version 12.0 of the manual to the home and professional versions of X‑Plane (X-Plane 12 and X‑Plane 12 for Professional Use, respectively). A Digital Copy of X-Plane Is Not A Backup.The Digital Download Version of X-Plane Requires an Internet Connection to Run.A Digital Download Product Key Is Like a Credit Card Number.My PC Freezes after Running X-Plane a While.The Simulator's Measurement of Time is Slow.Airplanes Flutter and Crash in the Simulator.X-Plane Gives Errors about Missing DLLs, or There Are Strange Graphical Anomalies.The X-Plane Installer Fails to Extract a File.Water World, or "Help, there's water everywhere!".Projector Setup for X-Plane Professional.Lining Up the Horizon (Without Vertical Offsets).Networking Multiple Computers for Multiple Displays.Driving Multiple Displays from One Computer.Tuning the Handling of Aircraft in X-Plane.Expert Essays: Unleashing the Full Potential of the Simulator.Using an Instructor Operator Station (IOS) for Flight Training.Heading, Altitude, Vertical Speed, Speed Hold, Flight Level Change, and Auto-Throttle.Flying an Instrument Approach in X-Plane.Gyroscopes and Their Application in Flight.Navigation, Autopilots, and Flying on Instruments.Changing How Damage Affects the Aircraft.Replaying a Flight from a Flight Data Recorder (FDR).Viewing the Behind-the-Scenes Flight Model.Viewing the Path Taken by Your Aircraft.Downloading Current Real-World Weather from the Internet.Setting the Rendering Options for Best Performance.Controlling Joystick Sensitivity and Aircraft Stability.Configuring and Tuning Your X-Plane Installation.Special Considerations for Digital Download Users.Configuring Essential Yoke/Joystick Functions.About the Versions of the X-Plane Simulator.Using the professional-use USB keys, the simulator can also be upgraded for commercial use, as well as for FAA certification. Upgrading to X-Plane for Professional Use Of course, the Plane Maker software (found in your X-Plane installation directory) can be used to create aircraft–for more information, see the Plane Maker manual. There, you’ll find information and links to the plug-in and scenery development kits.
A good place to start is the Development Tools page. If you don’t find the aircraft, scenery, or plug-ins you’re looking for, you can create your own. Likewise, most scenery can be installed by simply moving the add-on scenery folder to your X-Plane installation’s Custom Scenery directory.įor more information about X-Plane add-ons and how to install them, see Chapter 4 of the X-Plane manual. Most aircraft models you download can be installed by simply unzipping the download and moving the resulting folder to your X-Plane installation’s Aircraft directory. You can also find free and paid add ons on other online sites such as. X-Plane supports three main kinds of add-ons:Īerosoft is the official distributor and source for X-Plane add ons. X-Plane may have the most realistic flight model on the market, but what is that worth if you can’t fly the planes that you want to fly, in the places you want to fly them?