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Which aircraft were actually designed with X-plane, and why? I've heard this several times but that never made sense to me. I wouldn't be surprised if their bl
by nikitaga 6y ago
Which aircraft were actually designed with X-plane, and why? I've heard this several times but that never made sense to me.
I wouldn't be surprised if their blade element theory approach is superior to whatever Microsoft is doing (not familiar), but still both of those are optimized for realtime simulation, not for correctness.
When I wanted to analyze performance of a hypothetical rigid wing hang glider I went with XFLR5. That isn't a perfect tool by any means either but its algorithms should be miles ahead of X-Plane. Though of course you can't actually fly the plane in XFLR5, just do the math.
- Stevvo 6y agoBeta eVTOL. https://www.beta.team/ https://www.beta.team/
- 0xffff2 6y agoI don't know about production aircraft, but NASA uses X-Plane pretty extensively for all kinds of research, including modeling flight dynamics for small UAVs. It's used often enough that several years ago I developed (and released on NASA's GitHub) a tool to simplify programmatic interaction with the X-Plane simulation engine. It's not nearly popular enough to make maintaining it a full time job (thankfully), but I do get pretty regular comments from NASA researchers and members of the public. I have never heard of anyone using MS Flight Sim in the same way, although another fairly common use case for my library is to disable the X-Plane physics completely and just use if as a visualization tool. If someone developed a library that made that equally easy for MSFS, I can see it taking over that role. It certainly looks better the X-Plane IMO.