So I was doing some cleaning and archiving the past few days looking at some of my installs and decided that I’d post photos of the X-Plane community created aircraft that I’ve kept in my X-Plane directory because a lot of them are darn good. So, in no particular order…







































































































































































































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* Most images were cropped - some were run through a brightness/contrast filter too!

BeachAV8R

Hhmm. Looks much better than I thought possible for X-Plane.

is there good ai in xplane? I like flying with a bunch of other planes in the air makes it more fun.

No..not at all in fact. You can set X-Plane to have I think up to 12 other aircraft flying around in the air with you..but all they do is come and go and they don't do anything remotely AI-like. They don't land, takeoff, taxi around. FSX is far, far superior in that regard. It is probably the single biggest weakness to X-Plane (other than the non-specific and repeating scenery). That and the ATC need the biggest amounts of attention in future builds.

thanks again bud

No problem. I guess (I haven't tried it) that some users of X-Plane connect to the VATSIM world, which is dominated by FS9/FSX users...but apparently it works just fine. So you can fly X-Plane online, but offline you will be severely disappointed by the lack of AI aircraft..so Microsoft wins that contest hands down.

It has me curious to try VATSIM with X-Plane though..I might do that this winter when I'm looking for something to try out.

Hi Guys,
do you know a website, which list all these freeware planes, helis etc. with the features they come with. I.e. Do they have a 3D Cockpit, the model quality and so on?

And thanks Beach for your v9 review.

Couple new additions to the hangar:

Airbus A320 with 5 new liveries. Nicely done with nice reverse thrust animations and a fairly good "Airbus" feel to it. Bank angle remains the same after input, although I noticed there is a very, very slow drift-down to level pitch after a couple minutes. Still, not bad.

Available HERE













A revamped Sukhoi SuperJET SSJ100 with better 3D modeling. Speedbrakes, thrust-reversers. Nice Russian callouts from the cockpit systems too.

Available HERE





And an interesting, but not really complete aircraft (has some see-through issues with the external model). Cool paint job and a novel 2D cockpit (I can't understand much of it..but I get the gist..).. Heinkel He-177A-5/R-2 "Greif" "Reichsfeuerzeug"

Available HERE









BeachAV8R

The "home" of X-Plane is pretty much http://www.x-plane.org There you will find a download manager with all kinds of X-Plane aircraft (of varying quality). You'll see descriptions of the add-ons, and sometimes you can judge by the "rating" and sometimes from the comments or just the screenshot whether they are worth a look.

Good luck!

BeachAV8R