X-plane or FSX?

b7474ever

b7474ever

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I have a MacBook Pro that I want to use for my ifr training. Does anyone have any experience with xplane9/10 or fsx on MacBook Pro? What do you recommend I should buy?
I will be training in a actual Cessna 172, and do not care too much about the scenery and high resolutions.
 
If you don't care about the scenery or getting anything out of the sim other than IFR training staring at a panel, then get X-plane 10. Much more realistic flight dynamics and the weather is much more customize. Plus you can simulate way more failures.
 
It's a shame that the world of IFR procedure trainers (ASA, Elite, etc) has basically died a horrible death, and all the other sims are very "game-y". :<

I dunno. I teethed on MSFS 5.0, and later upgraded to 5.0a. On floppies. 3.5" floppies.

I got to watch a genre be born, live, and die.

It makes me sad.

~Fox
 
FSX runs great on my macbook pro

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FSX and add a head tracker and cheapish yoke for the ultimate in realism IMO. It's really incredible what you can do with those sims these days. HDMI it out to a TV.
 
I'd go X-Plane 10 and try pilotedge for ATC. X-plane will run natively on OSX but I think you'd have to bootcamp windows 7/8 to get FSX or Prepar3d. Anyway, it has much better flight dynamics, it's 64-bit capable, and the settings are much more granular (allowing you to control more but may take more time to set up). Out of the box, the default airplanes and scenery are a little lacking but if you buy a good payware GA airplane and some freeware scenery, you'll be in good shape.
 
Be forewarned sims are almost as deep a hole as really flying! Check out avsim forums just don't ask FSX vs P3D vs X-plane. People can be passionate about their sims.

I would suggest Prepar3d aka P3D. Except, I don't know how much success people have had with it on apple hardware. Do you have the ability to run a virtual windows machine on you laptop? If not, your only viable choice is X-plane.

Lockheed Martin bought the commercial version of FSX (then called ESP now P3D) and has continued development of the sim. There is an academic version of P3D available on the Prepar3d website for appx. $59 -I think. The software is in continual development and has a 60 day no questions asked money back guarantee. So there is no risk in giving it a shot. I would also second the A2A 172 and head tracker (trackIR) suggestion.

FSX is no longer supported or in development. Microsoft shut down the ACES team and some left to work on P3D with LM.

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