X-Plane 8 Deluxe for Mac
Clearance: $24.95          Was: $57.95
 

Welcome to the world of props, jets, single- and multi-engine airplanes, as well as gliders, helicopters and VTOLs such as the V-22 Osprey and AV8-B Harrier. X-Plane comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, sporting aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic Concorde and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie. Try 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history), with several hundred more freely downloadable from the Internet. Scenery is world-wide, covering the entire planet Earth and Mars. You can land at more than 18,000 airports, as well as test your mettle on aircraft carriers, helipads on building tops, frigates that pitch and roll on waves, and oil rigs. Weather ranges from clear skies to thunderstorms with controllable wind, wind shear, turbulence and microbursts. Rain, snow and clouds are available for an instrument flying challenge, and thermals are available for the gliders. Real weather conditions can be downloaded, allowing you to fly in the actual weather that currently exists. Enjoy detailed failure-modeling with 35 systems that can be failed manually or randomly when you least expect it. X-Plane is extremely customizable, allowing you to easily create textures, sounds and instrument panels for your own airplanes that you design or the planes that come with the sim. Also included is Plane-Maker (to create your own airplanes) World-Maker (to create scenery) and Weather Briefer (for a weather briefing before the flight if you use real conditions downloaded from the net). Includes worldwide scenery on 7 DVD Roms

• Powerful flight simulator with the most realistic flight model
• Reads in the geometric shape of any aircraft and then figures out how that aircraft will fly
• Includes 40 aircraft, and hundreds more are available online
• Land at more than 18,000 airports
• You can fail instruments, engines, flight controls and landing gear at any moment
• Comes with Plane-Maker, World-Maker and Weather Briefer

System Requirements:

• Macintosh computer with PowerPC:
    • Mac OS X
    • Processor: 400 MHz, 512 MB RAM
    • Available Hard Drive: 6 GB