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X-Plane 9Version: 9.40 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)

$9.99
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3.5 out of 5 mice Reviewed Sep 19, 2008 Reviewed Unknown
3434 user reviews

Compatibility: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later

Filed Under: Games

Hullo! APOLLO and GLIDER are now approved by Apple, and filtering to the stores now! They will be visible on the store soon, if not now! Links are available at the top of X-Plane.com now!

As well, we will get the ILS's back in, and the external views closer, for 9.50 as a FREE update shortly!

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And now, on with the show!

X-Plane for Mac, Windows, and Linux (www.X-Plane.com) is the most flexible and realistic flight simulator on the market for desktop personal computers. Using blade element theory for the most powerful and accurate flight model available for personal computers, and earning FAA certification for logging of flight time for pilots, X-Plane is the Gold Standard for accurate flight simulation, offering realism that is unmatched by any other simulator.

And now, thanks to the power of the iPhone and iPodTouch, X-Plane is available for these stunning little platforms. As in the full desktop version, X-Plane for iPhone lets you experiment with different times of day, weather, sky conditions, wind, turbulence and airplanes, all while flying the craft from various different views in the stunning terrain topography of Innsbruck, Austria, home to some of the most challenging mountains and topography for aviation.

We here at Laminar Research are still a bit shell-shocked at how powerful this little device is, and how much power in flight simulation can be stuffed into it... the power of X-Plane can now be had with you... anywhere.

X-Plane 9 Screenshots

X-Plane 9 Review

Reviewed Unknown

Venerable flight simulator debuts on the iPhone in slimmed-down form

by Rob Griffiths, Macworld.com

While my iPhone has always felt relatively fast, now I can say it really flies—and no, that’s not due to the 2.1 software update, though that helped. Instead, my iPhone can now literally fly, thanks to Laminar Research’s X-Plane for iPhone. This is the first flight simulator for the iPhone, and if nothing else, it’s an amazing testament to the power of the iPhone’s CPU and graphics capabilities. But I’m getting ahead of myself…