X-Plane 10 manual

1 About This ManualThis is version of the manual to the home and professional versions of X-Plane ( X-Plane 10 Global and X-Plane10 for Professional Use, respectively). This manual is also available (in PDF form) in English, German, French,Spanish, and Italian. To read those PDFs, you will need a PDF viewer such as Adobe Reader or Preview (installed bydefault on all Mac computers since about 2004).To search for a specific term or set of words, press ctrl ( command on a Mac) + f to be taken to the termanywhere in the you would like to receive a free guide to many of the most important features of X-Plane , you can sign up for ourfree email course.

2 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. This course will show you how to:add new aircraft to X-Plane for free,simulate out-of-this world situations (literally!), like flying the Space Shuttle s re-entry into the atmosphere,dogfight against your friends or X-Plane s artificial intelligence,shoot approaches to your favorite runways, and more!Sign up for the free course to get the most out of X-PlaneOverviewX-Plane is the world s most comprehensive and powerful flight simulator for personal computers, and it offers themost realistic flight model is not a game, but an engineering tool that can be used to predict the flying qualities of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft with incredible X-Plane predicts the performance and handling of almost any aircraft, it is a great tool for pilots to keep uptheir currency in a simulator that flies like the real plane, for engineers to predict how a new airplane will fly.

3 And foraviation enthusiasts to explore the world of aircraft flight to the world of props, jets, single- and multi-engine airplanes, as well as gliders, helicopters and VTOLs. X-Plane contains subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, allowing users to predict the flight characteristics of theslowest aircraft or the fastest. X-Plane also includes more than 30 aircraft in the default installation, spanning theaviation industry and its history. Aircraft included range from the Bell 206 JetRanger and Cessna 172 to the SpaceShuttle and the B 2 Bomber. Additionally, some 2,000 additional aircraft models can be downloaded from theInternet ( , the Links page, and Google are good places to start looking), many of which arecompletely free.

4 If those aren t enough, users can design their own airplanes and test-fly them!The full X-Plane scenery package covers the Earth in stunning resolution from 74 north to 60 south latitude. Userscan land at any of over 33,000 airports or test their mettle on aircraft carriers, oil rigs, frigates (which pitch and rollwith the waves), or helipads atop buildings. They can also realistically model the flight of remote-controlled modelaircraft, perform an air-launch in an X 15 or Space Ship One from the mother ship, fly re-entries into Earth satmosphere in the Space Shuttle, fly with friends over the Internet or a LAN, drop water on forest fires, or shootapproaches to aircraft carriers at night in stormy weather and rough water conditions in a damaged F 4.

5 Thesituations that can be simulated are unbelievably diverse!Weather in X-Plane is variable from clear skies and high visibility to thunderstorms with controllable wind, wind shear,turbulence, and micro bursts. Rain, snow, and clouds are available for an instrument flying challenge, and thermalsare available for the gliders. Actual weather conditions can be downloaded from the Internet, allowing users to fly inthe weather that really exists at their current location! X-Plane has detailed failure modeling, with multitudes of systems that can either be failed manually at an instructor scommand, or randomly when users least expect it!

6 Users can fail instruments, engines, flight controls, control cables,antennae, landing gear, or any of dozens of other systems at any moment. They can also have a friend or flightinstructor (locally or via the Internet, working from an Instructor s Operating Station) fail components on the aircraftwithout the pilot s knowledge. The instructor can alter the time of day, weather conditions, and failure status ofhundreds of aircraft systems and components. Additionally, the instructor can relocate the aircraft to a location of hisor her choice at any models are also extremely flexible, allowing users to easily create paint jobs, sounds, and instrument panelsto modify any airplane you choose.

7 Custom airplane or helicopter designs can even be created and flown using X-Plane and the included Plane Maker is used by world-leading defense contractors, air forces, aircraft manufacturers, and even space agenciesfor applications ranging from flight training to concept design and flight example, X-Plane has been used in crash investigations to depict the view pilots experienced moments before amid-air collision, or to graphically present to juries and judges the forces that impact an aircraft in flight. ScaledComposites used X-Plane to visualize Space Ship One s flights to the edge of the atmosphere in their pilot trainingsimulator.

8 Kalitta has used X-Plane to train their pilots to fly freight 747s in the middle of the night. Northwest andJapan Airlines use X-Plane for flight review and training. Cessna uses X-Plane to train new customers in theintricacies of the Garmin G1000. Dave Rose has used X-Plane to optimize airplanes for his many wins at Reno. NASAhas used X-Plane to test the re-entry of gliders into the Martian atmosphere, and the list goes on. These customersserve as perhaps the most significant endorsement of the incredible capabilities of this , X-Plane has received certification from the FAA for use in logging hours towards flight experience andratings.

9 This experience can provide credit towards a private pilot s license, recurrence training, hours towardsinstrument training, and even hours towards an Airline Transport Certificate it s that X-Plane IncludesWindows, Mac, and Linux installers are included with X-Plane 10 Global (the version of X-Plane available from ). It includes over 70 GB-worth of scenery (covering essentially the entire world) and over thirty aircraft,with thousands of planes available on the web. The DVDs contain everything needed to run X-Plane there isnothing more that you need to buy. You ll receive free updates to X-Plane 10 until Version 11 is released, as wellsome of the best customer service and tech support on its own X-Plane represents the world s most comprehensive flight simulator, the installation DVD alsocomes with Plane Maker, allowing users to create custom aircraft or modify existing designs, and Airfoil Maker,allowing users to create airfoil performance stock installation includes the following aircraft.

10 Cirrus Vision SF50 North American X 15 Beechcraft Baron 58 Columbia 400 Cessna 172 SPMcDonnell Douglas KC 10 ExtenderPiaggo AvantiBoeing 747 400 and 747 100 Stinson L 5 SentinelRobinson R22 Beta HelicopterASK 21 gliderBoeing B 52G StratofortressBeechcraft King Air C90 BBombardier Canadair CL 415F 22 RaptorViggen JA37 Lockheed SR 71 BlackbirdF 4 Phantom IIBoeing AV 8B Harrier IIBell 206 helicopterLockheed C 130 HerculesSpace Shuttle OrbiterGreat Planes PT 60 RC planeThunder Tiger Raptor 30 v2 RC helicopterOf course, the thousands of aircraft available on the Internet provide even greater variety. The following is a (small)sample of what s out there.