SurClaro Flight Simulator Resources

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:25 pm Post subject:

I can barely supprot the c r a c k monkey habit I have for FS9, let alone FSX. Now like I need another banana gobbling habit to feed...

I'm hiding out behind dumpsters with pepper sauce in one hand and the other hand open Rolling Eyes

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:02 am Post subject:

Picked up xplane 9 today, excited to see how it works, but installing all 6 disks does take alot of time. Thought I cannot find many xplane sites like surclaro or avsim, anyone know wehre to find addons and other stuff?

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:15 am Post subject:

Anything and everything concerning X-Plane can be found or had on these two sites.

http://www.x-plane.com/

and

http://www.x-plane.org/

These are the only official sites to get what you want or need. Support as well. The .org is what you will want to check out.

RD

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:22 am Post subject:

I picked up a box of Xplane 9- it looked pretty good. Is it worth getting?

My pc (windows vista) can handle FSX at an average level, and I have an X52. Should I spend the money? It sounds interesting, but if it isn't much different from FSX then I probably won't do it.

Any thoughts?

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:46 am Post subject:

Last I checked, X-Plane is not available "boxed" at the retail level. You have to buy it directly from Laminar Research.

There is another Xplane, but it is not the same in any content, or by the same people.

Also, you didn't say how much it was.

RD

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:41 am Post subject:

wait....so the X-plane 9 in stores isnt the same one that this forum is for? I'm confused...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514K7mkZNsL.jpg

-thats the box I saw at Walmart. It's not on the website right now (so I don't know the price...it wasn't ridiculous), but I know I was holding the box in the store.

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:41 am Post subject:

I checked the pic, and the box does say "Laminar Research" on it. So it must be the same.

What I don't know, is if the boxed version has all the bells and whistles as the one you get on the site. Maybe something to check into.

Ooops, already did.

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:14 pm Post subject:

I was in the wallmart today and the wife and i wandered past the game department. I went in for a look and there it was X-PLANE 9. I bought it and am installing now. I'm up to disk three of six, and I'm all giddy with anticipation.

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 9:21 pm Post subject:

Make sure you go to the site and get the updates.

Let me know what you think of it.

RD

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:04 pm Post subject:

Still installing... Up to disk 5.
I've been looking at the site and am anxious to get the update, but it needs to install first.

Are the majority of the Aircraft/Helo's payware for add-on's? That's all I seem to be seeing, granted I have never looked for anything before now.

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:44 am Post subject:

There's quite a few that are freeware, probably more than payware.

Where are you looking???

RD

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:01 am Post subject:

60 Gigs of scenery detail?! What the?! That won't even fit in what's left of my little 250G HDD! Still I downloaded the beta and I think it's pretty cool. I like the panning with the mouse and the sunglasses feature. But did I see where someone wrote "6 dual-layer disks"? Is that DVD or CDRom?

Holy smokes that terrain better look good on there, and it better have the 182 Skylane!

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 2:07 am Post subject:

They are Dual Layer DVD's.

To be real honest, you need a 120 Gig HD dedicated to X-Plane alone. Or.... you could do what I did. Just install the first two discs and be good. Even with that, my file size is still over 70 Gigs. The other discs are for the other countries like Africa, Asia, Australia....etc.

RD

NOTE: If you have X-Plane, these two links are important to have:

http://x-plane.org/

http://x-plane.com/

Freeware stuff:

http://www.xplanefreeware.net/

http://forums.xplanefreeware.net/index.php?s=f9c33b8c198b7d9f3caba73262c80c63&autocom=downloads

Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:21 pm Post subject:

Decided to go see what all the fuss was about and downloaded the Demo version.

Is it me, or is it not as user friendly as MSFS, tried my hardest to get into a full screen mode, instead of trying to fly in a small window on one side of my screen.

Scenery is almost non existant, a/c textures did not appear to be as good as fs9, only thing I was impressed with, was the clarity and sharpness of cockpits.

Not really convinced this is for me............. Unless I am doing something very wrong.

Mel.

Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:43 pm Post subject: