Comments on: Flight Simulator 'X-Plane 9' from Laminar Research

By: jk

jk — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:48:46 +0000

Hi,
is there a way to extract the flight parameters data to a text doc or spreadsheet while flying the x-plane on iphone? Thanks

By: Random

Random — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:03:41 +0000

I can play this. It's easy. The only problem is that it's hard, HARD, to land.

By: Randy Witt

Randy Witt — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:42:57 +0000

The freqs. are still on the maps, just zoom in to see them.

By: Gary L

Gary L — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:48:49 +0000

I have all the xplane for iphone apps, and I am also an experienced real-world pilot. The apps give a good basic representation of real flight dynamics. A problem I'm having though: since I updated to ver 9.09, the radio frequencies on the approaches and navaids dont appear on the map display. This makes it useless for insturment flight, which is what I really liked it for. Anyone experience this or know a fix?

By: David

David — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:13:42 +0000

any chance for a British Spitfire for the iPhone version?

By: David

David — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:11:08 +0000

Any chance to get a British Spitfire for the iPhone version?

By: Brendonian

Brendonian — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:11:21 +0000

Glad I could help. Keep practicing.

By: Blair Gillespie

Blair Gillespie — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:56:35 +0000

Brendonian,
Thanks so much for replying to my email. With your advise, tonight was the first time was able to fly the helo, mind you not far but at least was able to take off.

Cheers,
Blair

By: Brendonian

Brendonian — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:25:24 +0000

I'd like to help, but your question is very vague. From the X-Plane website:

The COLLECTIVE control is on the LEFT of the iPhone screen… drag it DOWN GENTLY to INCREASE the pitch of the main rotor, thus causing the helo to lift. As you drag this collective down, you will notice that the throttle AUTOMATICALLY increases on the right side of the screen. This is because the throttle governor automatically increases the engine power to maintain the desired rotor RPM as you increase the load on the rotor by increasing the rotor pitch. This is how the real helicopters work, and how we simulate them on the iPhone.

Pitching and rolling are controlled using tilt, basically, tilt forwards to pitch the helo forwards etc.

You also have rudder control at the bottom. Use this to spin left and right. My advice is don't touch this until you've mastered the other controls. You need to manually push it back to the centre to stop it spinning.

All of the controls require sensitive, smooth inputs. Helicopters like to spin out of control and crash!

This is a complex simulation, and I wish they'd put more help on the website.

If you have any more questions, send me a private message.

By: Blair Gillespie

Blair Gillespie — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:58:49 +0000

I forgot to add one important item. The info I'm requesting is for a I-Touch not I-Phone.

Thanks Blair