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Tuesday, May 21, 2002
 

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X-Plane 6.16 Released
9:10 AM | Tim Morgan | Comment on this story

Continuing like clockwork, Laminar Research has released yet another update to X-Plane, taking it to version 6.16. X-Plane creator Austin Meyer details some of the new features and bug fixes in this new version:

  • Critical naming convention change!

  • Visible slats, just like with the speedbrakes!

  • View left and up and right and up for the turn to final in a VFR pattern. See the view menu. Kind of nice.

  • Auto-brakes are now only 75% effort (more like what is normally used in practice, not 100% like before) and ABS (like in reality, will not lock your tires).

  • Maneuvering are rockets now available to push your craft in ANY direction... check them out in the VTOL screen in plane-maker beside the puffers... VERY FUN!!! Tack them onto a plane as retro rockets to slow down or even "jump-boosters" to pop you up into the air like a JATO... great fun to experiment with for VTOL research! These rockets were originally designed to maneuver spacecraft in orbit, but the retro-rocket and "vertical boost" applications are very cool to play with!

X-Plane is Laminar's general-aviation flight simulator that also includes tools to design aircraft and scenery. The game is very modular, allowing players to take to the sky in both conventional and exotic airplanes.

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