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New version 10.50 for X-Plane

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