August 27, 201213 yr Initially, long ago, X-Plane was just a fixed wing aircraft simulator, then, one day, as some of you may well recall, Austin announced X-Rotor, but that version never really came to live... Instead we got a new version of the sim including fixed as well as rotary wing aircraft. Today's versions of x-plane include much more aircraft/airship types, such as gliders, ligher than air, orbital vehicles, spaceships... Well, I got various simulators on a single platform, but given my present interests, I am perfectly satisfied with having some sort of DCS in X-Plane10, given the level of accuracy and detail an helicopter can be made up to in X-Plane, but also Condorsoaring, because even if not so sophisticated as specific simulators like Condor and Silent Wings, X-Plane offers a very consistent and interesting/challenging soaring environment, including thermals and slope winds... So, I really got 3 simulators with just one.... And of course, there's the war side of the sim too, bat that one I really don't care about, although it is nice to know it is also included :-) If only I ever learn how to use a CAD app and try to design my own glider project.... And, BTW: A couple of months ago someone sent me a link to a very interesting DG-1000 (or was it a -500 ???) project? Any glider projects for X-Plane are really important for me, so, if any of you know about anything, please post here ;-) Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
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