

In September 2020, Update 11.50 introduced support for Vulkan and Metal. The official release of X-Plane 11 took place on March 30, 2017. The company released a second public beta on December 6, 2016, which addressed some significant issues. In November 2016, Laminar Research released the public beta of their latest simulator version, X-Plane 11, to the general public. This is further enhanced by the X-Plane forums, where users can share aircraft, scenery, plugins, and the Scenery Gateway website, which allows users to share airports with other users, which can be eventually integrated into the base product. X-Plane also has a plugin architecture that allows users to create their modules, extending the software's functionality by letting users create their worlds or replicas of places on Earth. X-Plane is pre-packaged with several commercial and military aircraft and global scenery, which covers most of the Earth.

A mobile version has been available for Android, iOS, and webOS since 2009 as well. In addition, Laminar Research also distributes FAA-certified versions for professional use. X-Plane is the only flight simulator suitable for Windows and macOS, with commercial desktop versions sold for macOS, Windows, and Linux. The OEM G530 is pretty good too.X-Plane is a flight simulation engine series developed and published by Laminar Research in 1995. They got the engine modelling great as on a warm day the -21 can be quite temp limited etc. Can't say much about the rest of the XP OEM aircraft as I don't use them but as free ware/ included aircraft this C90B is very good. * at the end of my career 90% of the time was in the office but I was able to fly the C90B when I needed to go somewhere.Ī couple years ago when I was totally fed up with P3d CTD (my experience at the time) I decided to download the XP demo and was blown away how good the C90B was. I flew one from 2010-2015* - the first years with an identical panel as to what comes with XP11 then the last couple of years with the G1000 with just about every option box known to man checked off - including XM radio. Not free ware but rather an OEM included with XP11 aircraft.
