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Amazon Minimum Age: 60 monthsBinding: Video Game Brand: Graphic Simulations EAN: 0740569000454 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Format: DVD Item Dimensions: Label: Graphics Simulations Corporation Manufacturer: Graphics Simulations Corporation Model: 1055 MPN: 1055 Platform: Mac Publisher: Graphics Simulations Corporation Release Date: March 25, 2008 Studio: Graphics Simulations Corporation Features:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: X-Plane is the world's most comprehensive and powerful flight simulator available. Welcome to the world of props jets single- and multi-engine airplanes as well as gliders helicopters and new Very Light Jets such as the Cirrus Jet.The most realistic flight model available for personal computers. It comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics simulating aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic Concorde and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie.Includes over 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history) and several hundred more are freely downloadable from the internet.Land at any of over 18000 airports as well as test your mettle on aircraft carriers helipads on building tops frigates that pitch and roll in the waves.Weather is variable from clear skies and high visibility to thunderstorms with controllable wind wind shear turbulence and microbursts. Rain snow and clouds are available for an instrument flying challenge. Real weather data can be downloaded allowing you to fly in the actual conditions that currently exist!Includes detailed failure modeling with 35 systems that can be failed manually or randomly when you least expect it! You can fail instruments engines flight controls and landing.Includes Plane-Maker which lets the player create airplanes and World-Maker which lets the player create scenery. Also included is Weather Briefer that makes a weather briefing based on actual weather conditions.System Requirements:DVD Drive Mac OS X v10.3 or later G4/G5 or Intel @ 1GHz System Memory: 1GB RAM Available Hard Drive: 60 GB Video Card: 64 MB VRAM Recommended: USB Joystick or yoke Internet Format: MAC 10.0 OR LATER/DVD SOFTWARE Genre: ENTERTAINMENT UPC: 740569000454 Manufacturer No: 1055 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Better than FSThe graphics and game play in this program is much better than Flight Simulator. If you're looking for realistic flights, you're going to love this game Rating: - It's a sim, not a game, and it is better than FSXI am running this game on a PC that cost right around $500 including a video card. 2.7 dual core, 6GB RAM, 1MB 9800GTI. It runs great. Who is this game for?: This is a flight simulation, not a game. If you enjoy "pretending to be a real pilot" without buying a $500K plane and taking the time and money to get trained and licensed, this software is for you. If you want to jump in, take off, and do aerobatics without reading the manual or understanding anything about airplanes, this ... Read More Rating:  - It is worth the troubleX-Plane is a simulator and not a game. It is not "plug-n-play" nor is it very user friendly. I have been flying X-Plane for years and still don't have it all figured out. It is rather detailed-expect to have to take some time to learn how the program works. That said there are many many pilots, aviation companies and people who just fly sims that think it is great. The dvds from Laminar Research, the X-Plane parent company, support Windows, Mac and Linux. Some licensed or repackaged dvds ... Read More Rating:  - Boring!Very realistic, but boring. In fairness, I haven't learned everything there is to know about the game, but I was looking for something that I could jump on a play quickly without lots of configuration. This game might be more fun in time, but just flying is pretty boring. I wish Mac had a game more like the Windows Combat flight sims. Much more fun and challenging to play. Rating: - Don't expect Microsoft Flight Simulator consistencyDespite it advertising better modeling than MS Flight Simulator, it doesn't feel like it. Controls are twitchy and overly sensitive (even after hours of fiddling) and planes that should be dead-on in "feel" are nowhere near it. Why, for example, does the 172 get pushed and turned around on the runway by a 10 knot quartering head wind without the brakes on? It is absurd. Such a thing does not happen in FSX and it doesn't happen in real life. The feel and rate of controls (trims etc.) between ... Read More 
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