Category: X-PLANE 12

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  • Keeping It Real: Why Navdata Matters in Simulators

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    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…

    Keeping It Real: Why Navdata Matters in Simulators
  • Two Runways, One Mission: MSFS 2024 and X-Plane 12

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    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,…

    Two Runways, One Mission: MSFS 2024 and X-Plane 12
  • Pilot’s Log Entry: X-Plane 12.2.1

    UPDATE: To double your X-Plane 12 frame rate (RTX 40 Series or newer), install the latest GeForce Game Ready Driver Version 581.15 with NVIDIA App, and then in NVIDIA App, go and set Graphics > X-Plane.exe > Smooth motion to On. This new setting uses a driver-based AI model to deliver smoother gameplay by inferring…

    Pilot’s Log Entry: X-Plane 12.2.1