X-Plane: Starship Wiki

This app is fun and challenging. The physics help me feel the starship controls. The only thing i wish it had a bit better camera control while thrusting. (Double checked, zooms when changing camera while thrusting. Maybe mod so no zooms are allowed while thrusting? Only rotations of camera? Maybe i have a fat thumb?) Trust the autopilot and make small adjustments. The reply helped. Also holding the phone down with the face up really helps too. More precise. Got it nailed now. But i also saw the real one to give away the roll secrets. Cool app. Reminiscent of Nintendo days when repetition was key to success.

I’ve been flying in this sim for days. Nothing beats the fun of attempting to fly the starship through a complete reentry into Mars atmosphere. I can complete all the missions, with about a 50% success rate on the hardest one, the full Mars reentry. If I can do it, so can you. Tips: the landing raptor button works on a built in autopilot, it basically points you retrograde, so learn to trust that autopilot. Also, use the cold gas thrusters if you have any control issues. Keep the controls centered and you pitch between 40-70 degrees, and maybe try doing roll reversals like the space shuttle did to cancel out your lift. Good luck!

I am a simulator addict, I love everything simulation. I’ve played X-Plane for a good bit and it’s absolutely amazing and seeing my passion of Spaceflight be implemented into the X-Plane engine is amazing. One error I see though is that the engine placement is a bit outdated, on SN8 there are two SL raptors on the belly side and one SL raptor on the window side not the other way around. This helps with ascent by only tilting the starship on the pitch axis not yaw axis, and helps the landing flip because the two engines on the belly side also pitch the nose up due to the thrust offset. Undoubtedly an amazing game with innovative technology, thanks!

Fantastic work and thank you! This is exceptional and quite fun. Love it. While it's a bit crashy, other than that one challenging request would be to add a shadow cast by the starship so it's a bit easier to tell how close you are to landing. EDIT: Thank you! The latest version fixed the crashing. Hasn't crashed since, except for when I crash starship myself. If you get this, two other feature requests! 1. A long-press of the time accelerate feature to get 16x speed. Especially when doing a full orbit of Mars it can take forever to come back down 2. A full refuel button for the Earth missions. Sure starship isn't supposed to take off with out super heavy, and maybe you don't have Earth maps loaded in, but it would be fun to try and fly around Earth like you do for Mars. Maybe an Earth landing mission for the return journey from Mars??

This is a wonderful simulator for the starship spacecraft. I highly recommend it. That said, it’s still very new, and needs quite a bit of refining, but I am very confident it will become a superb simulation. I have a lot of faith in the designer of this simulator. I know he will continue to improve control and other aspects of the app. I’m looking forward to future upgrades. Enjoy the app, and stay safe everyone !

Hi! Very nice simulator, very inspiring to me, I love aircraft, but this game thought me how to land a rocket. Correctly. Very amazed. I’ve always wanted to go to space, very nice simulator. I like the assist thing you’ve added and a tutorial / briefing, it has helped me a lot. I play Kerbal Space Program, and I was terrible at landing rockets. Very nice game, BUT, please make the flames or exhaust look better, still very nice sim. If I made a video, I would give a shout out to you. Grade A+. Have a nice day!

i have a few suggestions for new features/modes. 1. i think there should be a "manual" mode for flying starship, where you can control how many engines you use + throttle. 2. i think for the 150m hop mode it should be a sn5-6 rocket, instead of having the full starship. 3. maybe a 12.5 km hop mode? thats all. i love the sim and i have been getting somewhat better at flying starship.

The game is wonderful. I love being able to act like Im in control of this hefty thing, so every aspect of the game is great. The only thing I wish there is, is a toggle for autopilot, and more customization. I also wish the autopilot was kind of working, sometimes the ship just drifts to the left or right without me wanting to (just because my iPad is ever so slightly tilting, which I can’t control.). Anyways, it’s a great game. Thanks!

If you are interested in SpaceX and Starship development then this app by X-Plane is worth the time. Its a high quality and entertaining simulator that will give you a sense of the challenges involved in launching, landing and orbiting Earth and Mars. X-plane, Thanks for your time building this Free or Get app. I would recommend going to check out the X-Plane apps for mobile and desktop systems.

This is simply an awesome application! Thank you so much Austin and team, my four-year-old son is interested in space. I’m not sure Austins briefings made much of a dent but they did allow us to talk about orbits and physics and landing in fuel. What more could you ask for? Thank you so much for all the work Austin and team

After watching SN8’s test flight, this sim has become even more fun than before! The 15km hop is a real challenge in the app - I can’t even imagine what went into the real flight. I’ve managed to successfully land the Starship but ended up miles from the pad. It’s going to be a long walk back to the car!

It seems there’s a base level knowledge about certain things that’s take for granted. Some of the reticle function’s purposes aren’t really clear to me, but I also haven’t really looked into it. I imagine it’s a standard setup that pilots would recognize instantly but the layperson would be unfamiliar with, such as me. It’s definitely a fun app and clearly he went to great lengths to get the physics right. Hopefully there will be more missions added

I just want to say that I love the game. Everything about it is amazing for a space nerd like myself. I’ve had the game for about a week, but over the past couple of days, the game would crash whenever I would try to do the full Mars entry and landing. I would close out the app and try again, but it still wouldn’t work. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? If so, have you resolved it? Thank you :)

The graphics are great. The physics, orbital and aerodynamic, are fantastic. The controls are... ... ... yeah. Not sure what they’re doing, but burning half my thruster fuel did not let me correct a tumble in orbit so that I could safely de-orbit - that tells me how the thrusters work and how I think they work, are very different, and there’s not much feedback going on to help me learn why my tumble never improved at all. Turning on the main engines when I was pointed somewhat in the direction I wanted to go? Would give me a completely new tumble. I suppose that’s what I get for a tablet based control scheme, no nav ball, and oodles of PC based flight skill.