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Austin Meyer of Laminar Research has released version 6.70 of his general-aviation flight simulator X-Plane. The new version, among the last for the 6.xx series, incorporates some new features and optimizations found in the beta 7.00 release. The complete list:

• New plugins.


• Some speed optimizations from Version-7 applied for higher frame-rate.


• C key to bring up sectional chart.


• FADEC failures now available.


• Failures now outputtable by udp selection.


• DME avail to carriers and frigates.


• Beta prop option in Plane-Maker to get thet reverse just right.


• World-Maker auto-grid option stays away from the env edges so the env edges are always perfect.


• In Plane-Maker, put the new water gage in the supplementary folder on the panel of your water bomber... then skim the ocean to pick up water to drop on fires!


• World-Maker apt/nav search improved... now finds apt and nav ids of even non-standard length.


• Support for more OS-X joysticks.


• More fine-tune control over the view in world-maker when using the SHIFT +/-/arrows to really get those runways positoned perfectly.


• No more crashing when pulling the mixture on lift-fans.


• Cars and houses and stuff do not turn on their lites quite so easily.. they were turning on their lites even on a cloudy day.


• Fires can be put out by dropping flame-retardant on them.

X-Plane 6 is the current version of Laminar's massive flight simulator which allows players to take up a seemingly endless number of aircraft around the Earth and into outer space. Meyer is currently working to release the next generation of his simulator, X-Plane 7, while continuing to support version 6.

Laminar Research

X-Plane 6

Download X-Plane 6.70 Beta/Demo (99 MB)

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