Category: X-PLANE 12
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Keeping It Real: Why Navdata Matters in Simulators
Navdata (navigation data) is the standardized digital database that provides the essential information an aircraft’s navigation systems need to operate safely and efficiently. It contains details such as waypoints, airways, airports, runways, Standard Instrument Departures (SIDs), Standard Terminal Arrival Routes (STARs), instrument approach procedures, and restricted or controlled airspace. Without accurate navdata, aircraft could deviate…
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Two Runways, One Mission: MSFS 2024 and X-Plane 12
If you mainly chase believable world scale, weather that looks like the METAR photographs, and a broad set of “real pilot” career-style operations (aerial firefighting, SAR, glider towing, air ambulance, corporate gigs), Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (MSFS 2024) has the deepest bench right out of the box. If you value a clean, transparent flight model,…
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Pilot’s Log Entry: X-Plane 12.2.1
I’ve flown a lot of hours in the real world and even more in sims, and if there’s one thing my logbook (and my neck) have taught me, it’s that the feel of an airplane lives in a thousand tiny cues: the way the nose hunts as you transition through ground effect, the rumble that…
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