“The World’s Most Powerful Home Flight Simulator!” “Ultimate Realism. Ultimate Versatility.” Availability: Late January 2005 Price: £39.99 Format: PC/Mac DVD-ROM

X-Plane Version 8 Flight Simulation Software

The Ultimate Flight Simulator... If you’re looking for the ultimate in flight simulation for your home PC (or Apple Mac), look no further... Whether you want to learn to fly a light aircraft, put on your Captain’s hat and cross the Atlantic in a 737, test your mettle putting a helicopter on the deck of a Frigate (which pitches and rolls with the waves), land a Phantom F4 on an aircraft carrier, practice re-entry in the shuttle, or even attempt Martian landings, X-Plane is most definitely the simulator for you.

Land a SeaKing helicopter on an Oil Rig... Or refuel your F-4J Phantom mid-air! Using advanced aerodynamic modelling, X-Plane is able to simulate everything that flies with incredible realism - from helicopters to the space shuttle - on Earth and beyond!

Versatile & Customisable Attempt Re-Entry in the Shuttle Powerful, Versatile and Easy to Use... Having been developed over the last 13 years, originally for use in the aviation industry (see below), X-Plane is the most comprehensive and powerful flight simulator available for the personal computer - bar none. Aircraft Spanning The Aviation Industry… X-Plane is provided with 29 aircraft which span the aviation industry, including: Light/General Aviation Aircraft: King Air B200, Piper PA-46 Civillian Airliners: Boeing 747-400 (American Airlines), Boeing 777-200 (British Airways) Vertical Take-Off & Landing (VTOL) Aircraft: Bell 609, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), Royal Navy Sea Harrier, V-22 Osprey Airships: Hindenburg Helicopters: Bell 206 Jet Ranger, Bell 47D, Sea King Gliders: GH - Cirrus Military: F-4J Phantom, B-52G (NASA), B-1B Lancer, KC-10 Extender (air to air refuelling aircraft) Amphibious Aircraft: Bombadier CL-415 Space Craft: The Space Shuttle X-Planes: X-15, X-30 National Aeropspace Plane (NASP) AND there are hundreds more for you to download FREE.

AND if that’s not enough, X-Plane also lets you design and build your own aircraft (Plane-Maker) – modelling the aerodynamic/ handling characteristics exactly as your design would fly in the real world. Incredible Scenery…

X-Plane includes scenery for the entire planet. You can land at any one of thousands of airports worldwide, as well as test your pilot skills landing on aircraft carriers, building-top helipads, frigates that pitch and roll in the waves, and oil rigs. For those would be astronauts, there’s even scenery and space-craft to fly on Mars in realistic Martian atmospheric and gravitational conditions! Weather is variable from clear skies with high visibility to thunderstorms with controllable wind, wind sheer, turbulence, and microbursts. Rain, snow, and clouds are included to test your skills navigating by instrument. X- Plane can even download real-time weather information from the Internet, allowing you to fly with the current weather conditions of your chosen flight area. Also included is Weather Briefer, which will give you a full weather update in the same way that a real flight service station specialist would before your flight in a real aircraft. System/Engine Failures…

Ever wondered what it’s like when an engine fails on your 747 mid-way over the ocean on your trans-Atlantic passenger flight? X-Plane has detailed failure modelling, with 35 systems that can be failed manually, or randomly when you least expect it. You can fail instruments, engines, flight controls, and/or landing gear (and more) at any moment, to put your pilot skills to the test when it really counts! Customise Your Simulation Experience...

Think Boeing made some errors with their 777 design? Why not make the necessary adjustments to correct it for them? Providing you with additional ‘Plane-Maker’ and ‘World-Maker’ software, X-Plane makes it extremely easy for you to customise your simulation experience. Design and texture your dream aircraft, add instruments, sounds and special features, then test fly it over the scenery you have created with World-Maker.

Fun with X-Plane... Unlike other flight simulators, X-Plane provides you with a complete flying experience. Once you’ve mastered handling the aircraft and instruments, there’s plenty more for you to enjoy...

Special Take Off... Why not try your hand at taking off in a Phantom F-4J using the Steam Catapult from the deck of the USS Enterprise? (The aircraft carrier, not the Space Ship from Star Trek!) Or why not try a winch launch or air tow using the Cirrus glider? Special In Flight...

If you think formation flying looks easy, why not try it out for yourself? Perhaps you might like to try refuelling from a McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender mid-air? Both basket and fuel- boom extensions are available. Watch out for jet wash though! Or, you could practice air-drops for troops or civilians in trouble? Special Approach...

If you thought it was fun taking off from the USS Enterprise, how about trying to land back on its deck? Sound easy? It’s not. To make the experience as realistic as possible, the deck of the carrier will be pitching and rolling in the waves. You’ll also have to catch the arresting wire on the deck with the hook on your aircraft if you want to stop before plunging off the end of the runway into the sea! Or you could try putting down a Sea King on a Frigate or an oil rig, or even douse a forest fire using the Bombadier CL-415 sea plane! Space Shuttle Missions...

Once you’ve proven your worth with conventional aircraft, perhaps you’d like to try gliding the Space Shuttle in to Edward’s Air Force Base, California? You’ll begin your descent at Mach 10 and at over 140,000 ft. We might therefore suggest reading the manual to figure out how best to slow yourself down before descending into the atmosphere - if you don’t want to be ripped apart by the heavy air at sea level that is!

Enhancements to X-Plane Version 7. Improved Performance... X-Plane Version 8 requires lower load times, lower RAM requirements and provides significantly higher frame rates than its predecessors. New, Improved Scenery Engine...

X-Plane V8 now has a completely new scenery format. Gone is the classic checkerboard pattern where the grids must run in regular horizontal/vertical directions. The scenery is now crafted to fit any terrain feature, no matter how irregular or oddly shape. Countless buildings and other landmarks are then overlaid on the terrain to give you a highly realistic 3D world to fly in. The new scenery engine also allows 3rd party add-on publishers to create much more detailed photographic and terrain scenery add-ons which we will begin to release early in 2005. New, Improved Aircraft Formats...

As well as providing new virtual 3D cockpits, V. 8 also provides aircraft designers with total freedom to design any aircraft. Plane-Maker now includes options for many more parts and wings which may be attached to any part of the aircraft. These new parts may then be attached to flight controls, meaning that they can be moved independently, or triggered by movement of other parts (e.g. inner and outer wing flaps). Textures may be applied to any part of the aircraft for complete customisation of liveries. Other Enhancements... New view options, Variable elevation runways, New Engine Instrument Options, New Flight-Model Refinements, and much more…

Used by the Professional Aviation Industry... Behind X-Plane’s exterior is a simulator so complex and ahead of its time, that it is starting to cause ripples amongst the industry’s professionals...

X-Plane is already used all over the world by the leading Defence Contractors, Air Forces, Aircraft Manufacturers and even Space Agencies, for applications from flight training to concept aircraft design/flight testing, systems simulation, and crash investigation - serving as perhaps the most significant endorsement of the incredible capabilities of this simulator. X-Plane even has certification from the FAA for use logging hours against a private pilots license (under controlled conditions) - it’s that good! But fear not... Being highly sophisticated whilst easy to use, whether you’re looking to enjoy your first flying experience, to practice exercises for a private pilot’s license, or to even to design and test your own aircraft, X-Plane should be top of your list.