X-Plane 11.35 (currently in beta testing) includes nearly 1000 new and updated global airports! Our volunteer scenery artists are constantly improving the scenery and have submitted over 10,000 3D airports to the Scenery Gateway as of this year. The video below shows some of the most outstanding airports now included in X-Plane, or you can […]
Washington D.C. is the capital of the United States, and as such, it has numerous iconic landmarks which are now faithfully represented in X-Plane 11. The National Mall has a high concentration of these important spots, such as the Capitol Building, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and the Reflecting Pool between them. Of course, no visit […]
As we were preparing X-Plane Mobile for its next major update as well as our presentation for FlightSimExpo last weekend, we knew we were going to show off global scenery on X-Plane Mobile. 35,000+ airports and the ability to fly virtually anywhere on the globe is a huge undertaking, but we weren’t satisfied and wondered […]
Here are some of our favorite add-ons from the month of May, 2019! Scenery Nothing beats some VFR in the Swiss Alps, right? Frank Dainese and Fabio Bellini’s latest creation for X-Plane is the Eiger Park of southern Switzerland. The small things, like the train stations for example, really bring this package to life. Aircraft […]
X-Plane 11.34r1 is now available! This is a very small patch that includes two crash fixes and restores missing Plane Maker UI.
X-Plane 11.33 is now available for everyone! It includes a few more bug fixes and a new export of the latest Airport Scenery Gateway recommended submissions, which includes 1204 new 3D airports. Gateway artists submit amazing work, including these examples from Palma de Majorca (pictured above) and Skagway (pictured below).
Here are some of our favorite add-ons from the month of April, 2019! Scenery Exploring the Polish countryside in VFR with lovely freeway scenery? Sounds like a great day to us! PuffinFlight released a freeware package that includes a variety of small airfields in the Lower Silesia region. Fresh on our scenery Gateway – KTTS, […]
YawString is a Gateway artist located in Southern Germany. Some of their outstanding airport submissions include LSZA Lugano and EDDH Hamburg. Why did you choose X-Plane as your flight simulator? I was a long-time FSX user, had tried X-Plane off and on but never stayed with it. That changed when I wanted to get into […]
Welcome, Captains, to the X-Plane 2019 landing competition! This will take place in real time at FlightSimExpo, on June 7-9, 2019 in Orlando, Florida. Here is your briefing: You are tasked with landing a 737-800 NG airliner at PAJN, Juneau, Alaska. Runway in use is 08 – you will fly the challenging LDA X RWY […]
World Editor 2.0 is here and is now the official version for submitting scenery to the Airport Scenery Gateway! This was a major update that included changes to the minimum system requirements as well as: 64 bits on all platforms (Mac/Win/Linux) Automatic background maps via OpenStreetmap and ESRI Orthoimagery New overlay layer featuring NAVAIDs and […]