South Carolina, 8th September 2016 - Laminar Research, creator of the X-Plane flight simulator franchise, has announced the latest update to X-Plane 10 to version 10.50.
Over the years it has always been the policy of Laminar Research to continually improve X-Plane, providing the most realistic flight simulation available, with flight modeling so accurate that has been adopted by numerous commercial aviation organizations. Now with the release of the latest update, X-Plane 10.50, Laminar has raised desktop flight simulation to a new level of realism.
Major features of the 10.50 update include:
- Hundreds of new detailed 3-D airports now with auto-placed static parked aircraft.
- New U.S. city autogen for more realistic scenery with buildings scaled to their accurate heights.
- Greatly improved Baron & King Air aircraft and 3-D cockpits.
- Global winds aloft files.
- Better AI (artificial intelligence) with virtual aircraft traffic.
- Added support for auto configuration of the Control Pad and Xavion Mobile Apps.
- Improved appearance of clouds.
- Better randomization of AI parking spots.
- Drastic improvement in the speed of the UI.
- Ability to steer certain guided weapon systems with the joystick.
- Better animated effects (prop, etc) in replay mode.
- Frame rate and other performance improvements.
- Numerous bug fixes.
The updates in version 10.50 are too numerous to list, but they can be found in their entirety on the X-Plane website at: http://www.x-plane.com/?article=x-plane-10-50-release-notes