X-Plane Flight Simulator Wiki

X-Plane Flight Simulator Wiki

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  • Category: Games
  • Last Updated: 2021-04-16
  • New version: 11.6.7
  • File size: 889.60 MB
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 13.0 or later. and Android 4.4. KitKat or later

X-Plane Flight Simulator

               

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X-Plane Flight Simulator is an iPhone and Android Games App, made by Laminar Research. Today, it has gone through many interations by the developers - Laminar Research, with the latest current version being 11.6.7 which was officially released on 2021-04-16. As a testament to the app's popularity or lack thereof, it has gathered a total of 13793 Reviews on the Apple App Store alone, with an average user rating of 4.1 out of a possible 5 stars.

Video Manual: How to Use the X-Plane Flight Simulator App

How does it Work?

The most realistic aircraft. The world at your fingertips. It’s not a game, it’s a flight simulator.

▶ "Highly recommended." — Mel Martin, Engadget ◀

▶ Featured by Apple in "Best New Games" ◀

▶ Over 1 million downloads! ◀

Come experience why real pilots fly X-Plane.

It starts with the flight model—the same flight model used in our FAA-certified desktop simulator—that’s complete enough to model the flex in your wings & the tilt in your landing gear.

Add to that our desktop-quality aircraft with multiple liveries and interactive 3-D cockpits—so detailed you can do a full startup procedure using the hundreds of buttons, knobs, & switches in the cockpit. With working gauges, flight displays, & more, these cockpits are as realistic as those in our full desktop sim.

But aircraft are no good without a place to fly them. That's why each of our 5 ▸free◂ regions features detailed terrain, lifelike city buildings, & 3D airports—complete with terminal buildings, jetways, hangars, & more.

Want more? Subscribe to unlock global scenery, and get access to over 37,000 airports, with more than 11,500 airports featuring 3D terminals, hangars, & more.

▶ FEATURES

√ 9 ▸free◂ tutorials, teaching the basics of takeoffs & landings, traffic patterns, helicopters, & more

√ Massive multiplayer with thousands of other pilots in a single shared world (Professional subscribers only; non-subscribers can get free trial flights for a limited time)

√ Fully interactive cockpits on many aircraft, wired to real systems models, with working gauges, displays, buttons, & switches

√ Full startup procedures supported on many aircraft (optionally start any aircraft from cold & dark)

√ More than 50 systems modeled, each of which can be failed on command

√ Emergency scenarios

√ Combat missions

▶ AIRCRAFT

The app includes 2 aircraft (plus 5 scenery regions) for free. In addition, the following aircraft are available as in-app purchases:

• ▸Free!◂ Cessna 172SP w/ full interactive cockpit + 4 liveries

• ▸Free!◂ Cirrus Vision SF50 w/ full interactive cockpit + 5 liveries

• Airbus A320 Airliner w/ 3 liveries

• Boeing B737-800 Airliner w/ full interactive cockpit (over 280 switches, buttons, knobs, & levers!) + 3 liveries

• Boeing B777-200ER Airliner w/ 3 liveries

• Boeing B747-400 Jumbo Jet w/ 3 liveries

• Bombardier CRJ200 Regional Jet w/ 3 liveries

• Douglas DC-3 Airliner w/ full interactive cockpit + 3 liveries

• McDonnell Douglas MD-80 w/ full interactive cockpit + 3 liveries

• A-10 Thunderbolt II (“Warthog”) Fighter

• F-22 Raptor Fighter

• F-4 Phantom II Fighter

• Beechcraft Baron B58 w/ full interactive cockpit

• Beechcraft King Air C90B w/ full interactive cockpit + alternate livery

• Piper PA-18 Super Cub

• Piaggio P.180 Avanti

• Sikorsky S76 Helicopter w/ full interactive cockpit + alternate livery

▶ SCENERY

5 scenery regions are ▸free◂ for everyone!

• Oahu, Hawaii

• Grand Canyon

• Seattle/Tacoma, Washington

• Juneau, Alaska

• Innsbruck, Austria

Global scenery is available by purchasing a monthly or yearly subscription.

▶ MULTIPLAYER

With a Professional subscription, you can get early access to massive multiplayer (MMO).

Come join tens of thousands of other pilots in a single, shared world!

Try the Fly-In of the Day to meet up with hundreds of other pilots, or explore the MMO world for more chance encounters.

Massive multiplayer is in early access—we wanted to get it in your hands as soon as possible—so we’re going to continue adding new features & improvements over the coming months.

Terms of Service available at: https://www.x-plane.com/x-plane-mobile-terms-of-service/

Download X-Plane now to experience aviation like never before.

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Top Reviews


  • By Alkyto

    To the developers:

    X-plane 10 for mobile is the best flight sim for mobile I’ve seen yet, I’ll keep this short for you guys. First things first; I absolutely love everything you’ve done to this game, and we can clearly see the amount of hard that was put into this game. Second things second, I know takes a long time to make high quality models for this game, so I think that the time you’ve spent adding these updates is almost as if you’ve been working every second of your life to add these updates, and so I think that you guys should add a community in which people can share their models. Now wouldn’t that be easy? I don’t know the specific requirements for a community, but this should make things a hole lot easier. Last things last. Please continue to update this game, if you guys succeed on adding some of the important features of the computer version of X-plane 10, this game would definitely gain a lot more attention. Overall, this flight sim is just at its start, right? By the way, I noticed you guys were working on the manipulators for the F-22 raptor. So don’t think your game is on the dark, think of it as behind the curtains, just waiting to be called. Thank you for everything, even if you didn’t read all of it.



  • By HVACR Man

    Great Game

    THIS GAME IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I do have some feedback though, first, it needs more places, like on the US east coast, San Francisco, and many others since currently there are only 5, also please expand the maps, second, I say more aircraft are needed (I would really like if you add a DC-10, or Boeing 727, I would also like if you add a large propeller Plane), and they need to be much cheaper, so far I’ve spent over $20 or maybe more on just planes, third, water physics need to be added, right now it is just hard ground, and finally, I would really, really love it if this game allowed you to customize your planes with a custom paint job you can save (I understand if this is impossible with crash physics, etc. but I think many others would love this feature even if it costs a few dollars), and use over and over again, and it never is deleted as long as the paint job isn’t deleted. Thanks so much, and good luck to the developers on improving this in the future. :) P.S. sorry if I seem needy or something, but I want so many changes to this game that if they were, I would give 10 stars to this game if I could.



  • By DMG the coolest

    X plane 11

    Please unlock all airplane on this game add the walk around on iOS make doors open for airplane make an engine sound for the plane add passenger on the cabin make the passenger walk to the plane make the jetway to move forward and backward for the plane make a microphone to talk to the control tower add more aircrafts add clouds like x plane 11 add ground workers add suitcase for the passenger make a city like x plane 11 add more islands add Puerto Rico island add the emergency vehicles for the plane make the vehicles move with the workers inside add bird strike in x plane 10 add engine on fire like x plane 11 add window to see make the camera to move on cabin add to seat in the front to see the engine add flight attendant make the pilot and the flight attendants to talk the passengers and pilots make the cockpit door open and close make the passenger window close and open make an air refueler aircraft and f 18 to refuel the plane add roads and cars so the cars go anywhere around the world add and highway add a bridge add ground vehicles and make the ground vehicles to move add objects on ground vehicles add air traffic add more liveries thank you and fix crashes so it doesn’t crash on the iPod iPhone and iPhone XS and iPads



  • By kengy kangaroo

    Best Mobile Flight Sim

    I’ve been playing for a little over 3 years now, and when I came to the AppStore to update the app, I was shocked that some people gave it less than 4 stars. This game is amazing. Interactable cockpits on reworked aircraft, and a wide variety of aircraft to pick from. Sure, there are some things that could get improved. Biggest one for me is probably multiplayer. I really wish they would change multiplayer from 2 player max, to 4 player max. There are of course other things. Sometimes the graphics they use for the planes looks a little visually unappealing. Typically with dark colors. But compared to watch else is out for mobile flight Sims, this one easily takes the cake. And just when it looked like AeroflyFS mobile was about to surpass X-plane, they released global scenery which took the game to a whole new level. And they added service trucks, and GSE. Overall, I highly recommend this game. I personally bought all the aircraft individually before the big update came, but now, you can get all aircraft unlocked, and global scenery fir just over half the price of Infinite Flight.



  • By suppperwhat

    Great sim but the cost

    I love this flight simulator but the planes are never updated and the cost to just fly around the world I’d rather have the global cost not be a subscription service and it be a one time purchase. That was a lot in one sentence but it still makes me mad that when you play global for a few months let’s say 4 that’s 20$ just gone and for the 6$ expenses that’s 24$ gone that’s the only problem for me. The reason why I’m saying it should be a 1 time purchase is because 1, I’m a 11 year old without a job for like 10/h no I have to chose what I get when it comes to 3$ stuff. 2, I’m sure a lot of kids like me are passionate but are blocked by 60$ games and 5$ subscription services. Then they don’t update the aircraft if you want to use the overhead panel on the 777 then you are out of luck or even use things on the a320 nope that’s not possible. Laminar research is still working on the game and have not fully moved to x-plane 11 so please laminar make the global version a one time purchase.



  • By I am Al

    A FUN and GREAT WAY To Learn!

    Last Week I put 21.5 hours in the seat of a Baron that had the same type of avionics you’re Baron in the game has...I hadn’t messed with the game very much but today I have been glued to it! This is BY FAR The best way to learn how the avionics function and “marry up” to the Flight Director and Autopilot systems and just how all the “Boxes” function!It would REALLY be cool if a person could equip the aircraft with exactly the type of avionics they have in the real airplane and learn some most valuable lessons before seeing it actual as well as the ability to learn from mistakes. (Obviously would have to put the Lawyer Disclaimer on it!)...People Gripe about the price....Go Buy an initial or recurrent training program....Hopefully people will realize what you have here and use it to its full potential!…Keep up the GREAT WORK!…any suggestions on a good control system to fly more realistic?....My Wife made the comment that it’s a good thing the real aircraft has a control yoke and not an IPad to control it with!lol



  • By paino lover

    I really love this game!

    I love this game and overall think it is an amazing app. I like the free version. I feel that it is pretty detailed for being a free game. I really like the detail in the cockpit and how almost everything is interactive. I also think that the massive multiplayer sounds really cool, I haven’t been able to get it yet, but when I can I most definitely will! I have been seeing a lot of seaplanes recently and made me think “what if X-Plane had sea planes and water physics for those sea planes” I think that the water physics could be very basic and that the sea plane would just be a revamped Cessna 172 like it is in real life. I also think that it could be part of a subscription, just like about any of the planes in the game. The seaplane could also have a retractable landing gear option for the people who are willing to pay a little more. Overall, I think many more people would like to get the subscription if you added a seaplane to the game as an in-app purchase.



  • By Level-D Sim

    Great Tool to learn G530W and Now the G1000 too!!!

    I have never considered desktop Flight Sims to be games, but rather learning tools. I have used FSims since the SubLogic FSim for IBM PC Jr; with it, I learned about VOR and ILS navigational aids. I’m a hobbyist pilot with Commercial Multi and Instrument ratings. I constantly use FSims to keep instrument skills sharp, so this review is mostly on instrumentation rather than scenery graphics (I’m always inside clouds to minimums). XPlane is great to learn the basic operations of the G530W with the C172. The new upgrade also vastly improved the Cirrus Vision Jet. Its flight dynamics are much better and more importantly, the G1000 is now very functional. I have shot several approaches with the G1000 since the upgrade and it is a great basic tool for any pilot wanting to transition from analog to glass panel. The only complaints I have at the moment: 1) The sensitivity of the rudder control; too sensitive. 2) Larger or at least random active areas i.e. change the flyable areas at each upgrades.



  • By ProJedi1234

    Wonderful, but buggy

    This is without a doubt the best flight simulator for mobile. However, there are a lot of glitches and often very strange things that make the IAPs rather odd. One of the biggest issues is that the first time I start the game, I always start 80,000ft in the sky and then the plane has to drop down to the Earth and a few restarts later things work alright. Another rather odd thing is the mach speed selector which is just an integer. Thanks but I think we should see more than a rounded integer value. 0 and 1 tell me nothing. The other issue is the strangely inconsistent cockpits. Some planes are wonderful and others are just so poorly made that it makes me wonder how they decided to sell it in the first place. The A320 in particular is just an embarrassment with only about 3 actually useable items. The 737 and the 747, however, are absolutely wonderful to fly and I love it. Overall, I love this simulator but there’s room for improvement. Hopefully we’ll have a better game in the near future



  • By Maison England

    Great game but not a lot to do...

    First off, this is one of the best aircraft games in my life. I love the detail of the cockpit, I love the detail of the planes in 3rd person, I just love the game. But, there are some things I want to say. Whenever you do the free flight or multiplayer, well first off you can only play with two people and second, you can only do challenges and free flight if you want to do something on your own. Anyways, what I am trying to get at is, missions. You need missions to keep us satisfied playing the game other than fling around in a small aircraft. Look at airline commander, they have different missions and other things that will keep you on the game. They have plans that you can unlock other than having to buy them, you have airports you can unlock other than taking off or landing in certain country’s, all that stuff. But on X-plane 10, you can’t do any of that stuff. I just think that you should take airline commander as a example of what your game should be.



  • By Leão doFlamengo

    Fun but needs some improvement.

    The game is way too touchy! The slightest movement of the hands and suddenly your diving, climbing to a stall, turning way off course, etc. there’s no real plans feel. I’ve flown in Cessna 172s several times, and had the plane flown as “touchy” as this game’s does, I’m sure I’d not be alive to write this. Another thing is the plane panels are too dark and fuzzy to clearly see the instruments and what they’re doing. (Yes, I have my glasses on👍) I’ve tried to fly with the instruments, but I get lost on the front panel, especially when the plane is dipping and swerving when I’m trying to get my bearings. Thirdly, on take-off, the rider automatically is set at a hard left. Took me a while to figure out why the plane kept running immediately to the left every time I went to take off. Holding the rider to the right so the plane will go somewhat straight forward can be quite tricky, especially with how touchy the plane’s controls and movement are. These are for me the main problems with this game up to this point. Otherwise the details are moderately good and could make for enjoyable flying. It could be that there is something in the settings that I’m missing, I don’t know; so for now I can only give 3 ⭐️. I’d like to enjoy this game and buy other planes, but until these problems, at least, are fixed I can only give 3 ⭐️. Fix these and I can go to 5⭐️ and spend $ for more planes. I never give my hard earned $ on less than great games.



  • By mlg ytp

    Quality: good, access to planes without a subscription, bad

    I mean, the quality of the game itself is just amazing, but without a subscription or if you can’t use money I the app you only get access to 2 planes and I bought the game and I’m bored of those two planes. I won’t be giving it 5 stars until there is a wider variety of planes for “pilots” without a subscriptionir can’t spend money on the app. Also stop saying “thank you for the suggestion” you will probably just get rid of all the reviews and forget about them. But please actually use my feedback, I can’t spend money on any games. Even though flight unlimited x has bad quality, at least you get access to more planes. If you put the 2 games together (won’t happen, just saying) it would get 5 stars from my friend Shane and myself. Also please let people without a subscription start at different airports and countries. Devs, just please use my feedback, I had high hopes for this game! Also you’re probably just wan to make money and force people to buy the planes. (Also how do you get passengers and what does the truck that comes when you press request service do?)



  • By Andrew Du - jae

    Fun but unfair

    I want to buy other planes can you Be like Microsoft flight simulator like for the planes how much points they get they get to buy there’s so much planes that there are so all of them should be very expensive up to 1 million and if they have a lot of points and they can buy their planes they could achieve them easily without buying them with money with credit cards make it fair for mobile and please make it look like in Microsoft flight simulator every time we kind of go through the buildings it’s very clear for us make sure they’re hard like Microsoft flight simulator I’m really up to everything that looks like it and make sure it’s also for mobile and computer gamers the update must start today or any type we need microscope flight simulator tomorrow with X-Plane it would be easier if they had a lot of points to buy their aircraft not to use credit card that won’t be fair for mobile please make it update and make sure it’s like Microsoft flight simulator and all the examples that I’m giving it should be Butterly hope your day is today



  • By M. Watt

    So Much Potential...Falls Short

    Overall an enjoyable experience for quick Mobile Flight Sim. Where I feel this game lacks is the User Cost to RND Investment by X-Plane. Whether I’m speaking prematurely or they really aren’t putting much effort to the platforms shortfalls, only time will tell. I cancelled my monthly subscription for the following reasons: (1) land scenery such as buildings are scattered everywhere even 1-dimensionally up hillsides where in real life non of these things exist amp shear other glaring scenery issues such as poor lighting of runways, ect. (2) aside from the 737 almost every plane has auto pilot issues such as losing or gaining altitude with no inputs which means if you’re not attentive good chance you’ll crash. (3) aside from the 737 most planes lack cockpit button selection which means you won’t have the ability to fully control the planes as you can with the 737. (4) Sound of many planes can be improved to mimic what you’d hear in real life. (5) F22 can’t get off the ground for the life of it so you have to start your flight in the air. There a number of other small things as well but basically for the price of admission IMO it’s not worth it. A one time payment for lifetime usage I wouldn’t be complaining but if I’m gonna pay a monthly subscription and I’d imagine 1000’s if not 10’s of 1000’s are as well X-Plane needs to do much better for me to come back and subscribe.


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