As I did a very intensive 6 page review of X-Plane 8 in the December 2005 issue of our Magazine "PC Flight", I may as well add a few comments here. While some users may find it an alternative to Microsoft's Flight Simulator, especially in its life-like flying capabilities, I concluded that I'd much prefer FS. X-Plane's scenery was dreadful as I found it to be mostly unrecognizable and had not even a basic resemblance to FS's default world scenery. While it came with lovely and clear aircraft panels, the exterior of the planes themselves were only passable as some windows were not transparent, with just blobs of grey or black, and no pilots could be seen inside. Pilots could, however, be observed within some military planes. Overall, I found the planes to be a little on the dull grey side and could not be compared to the magnificent aircraft provided by FS.
Recently, as one of our members was showing an interest in X-Plane's latest version 9, I made a few comments. Later, to check it out for myself, I decided to download X-Plane 9's FREE Demo and gave it a go. I still did not like it and decided that I'd still much prefer FS versions FS9 and FSX. If you would like to try X-Plane 9, visit
www.x-plane.com where a link to the demo can be found.
