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Madape Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: "Opinions on X-Plane" 07-24-01, 13:16z  ____________________ Hi All! I have just purchased X-Plane (out of pure curiosity), and on first impressions, I think its abousolutely amazing, the setup is easier to use than FS2K, and the actual aircraft handeling is far superior in X-Plane... although it doesnt have as many add-ons as FS2K, it gets updated once a Month (beat that Microsoft!), with bug fixes and add-ons requested by the users! I would just like to know what everyone else thinks of this newish FlightSim, and maybe if anyones got any good add-on pages they could recommend and/or share with us. IMHO MS could learn alot from the developers of X-Plane! If you havent heard of it take a look at the website; www.x-plane.com Catcha Round! Sam Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      RE: Opinions on X-Plane The Jim 07-25-01 1    RE: Opinions on X-Plane Madape 07-25-01 2

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The Jim Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 1. "RE: Opinions on X-Plane" 07-25-01, 17:35z  I downlaoded (boy was that a wait!) X-Plane a while back out of curiosity as well. This was about 6-8 months before the comercial release, so I'm not sure what changes have occured in the game, but I just didn't like it. I wouldn't know about flight handling (never had my hands on a *real* yoke in all my life), so I can't really comment on that. The graphics were top notch as far as scenery went, although I never found any major cities. But the promise to be able to land on buildings didn't hold up in my version. (OK, so trying to land on the tower isn't something every pilot would do, but there weren't any other buildings around!) The camera angles weren't very well thought out, with the "chase" view, not chasing, but more hovering a distance away from the plane, and constantly pointing in one direction. Also, NO DAMAGE! I tried my hardest to break that little mono-plane's wings off, but it just kept bouncing! At least FS stops when you wouldn't be able to go any further! Like I said, I don't have the retail version, so my opinions may be as out-of-date as my Pentium 166 (no, I didn't use that for X-Plane, I used a K6-2 350). But that's my say. NEXT! lol -The Jim -------------------- "Those daring young men and their flying machines..." -------------------- Top

Madape Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 2. "RE: Opinions on X-Plane" 07-25-01, 23:58z  ____________________ What version did you try? I have got 5.53, and coming through the post is 5.66 The chase angle I agree is annoying, but I usually spend most of my time in the cockpit, or do a manual view setting. Sam Top

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