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X-Plane has a professional version that's used in FAA-certified flight simulators. The home version on a laptop runs the same simulation code. Most flight sim
by DennisP 3y ago
X-Plane has a professional version that's used in FAA-certified flight simulators. The home version on a laptop runs the same simulation code.
Most flight sim games, including Microsoft's, start with performance data on the airplane. X-Plane starts with the shape of the airplane and physically models the airflow. It's even used by aircraft designers.
- giantg2 3y agoI was going to say, I've heard that x-plane is supposed to be the better sim between the two. But I don't have the background to make a comparison.
- selectodude 3y agoThe modeling in X-Plane works great on fake experimental aircraft but lookup tables have their place too, especially for real aircraft where every single small performance characteristic is known to several decimal places.
- ic_fly2 3y agoWithin the normal flight envelope this holds. But getting into a spin in a glider in ms fs shoes you the limits of lookup tables / their implementation as the behaviours is completely wrong. ( At least ask the way up to fsx)
- whycome 3y agoIn another universe these software were banned after 9/11
- squarefoot 3y agoIn this universe these games are closed source and there's no guarantee that, if someone for example uses them for training to crash airliners, a red flag isn't raised somewhere.
- Cupprum 3y agoGiven that this is Microsoft i would be very surprised by this. They are too incompetent to be able go think about such a huge details. And even if they were forced to implement this feature it would be poorly done and would probably have a lot of false positives which would make the data almost useless. (I dont know about games from other companies)
- Zak 3y agoI think just about every kid who has played a flight sim has intentionally crashed into a building at least once.
- Geisterde 3y agoI reserve the right to crash virtual planes into virtual buildings, I dont know what else youd use a flight simulator for.
- jjeaff 3y agothe number of red flags thrown would be excessive. Who hasn't purposely crashed their plane in a flight simulator just to see what happens.
- DennisP 3y agoOr to see how difficult it is, which is not difficult at all. Hitting the ground of course is trivial, but you can probably hit a skyscraper the first time you boot up a flight sim. It's hard to imagine anyone doing much "training" specifically for that.
- helpfulContrib 3y ago[dead]
- Koshkin 3y agoOne example: the release of Propeller Arena for Sega Dreamcast was scheduled for September 19, 2001. The release was canceled just days after the attack.