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The world at your fingertips. It’s not a game, it’s a flight simulator.\n\n▶ \"Highly recommended.\" — Mel Martin, Engadget ◀\n▶ Featured by Apple in \"Best New Games\" ◀\n▶ Over 1 million downloads! ◀\n\nCome experience why real pilots fly X-Plane.\n\nIt starts with the flight model—the same flight model used in our FAA-certified desktop simulator—that’s complete enough to model the flex in your wings & the tilt in your landing gear.\n\nAdd to that our desktop-quality aircraft with multiple liveries and interactive 3-D cockpits—so detailed you can do a full startup procedure using the hundreds of buttons, knobs, & switches in the cockpit. With working gauges, flight displays, & more, these cockpits are as realistic as those in our full desktop sim.\n\nBut aircraft are no good without a place to fly them. That's why each of our 5 ▸free◂ regions features detailed terrain, lifelike city buildings, & 3D airports—complete with terminal buildings, jetways, hangars, & more.\n\nWant more? Subscribe to unlock global scenery, and get access to over 37,000 airports, with more than 11,500 airports featuring 3D terminals, hangars, & more.\n\n▶ FEATURES\n\n√ 9 ▸free◂ tutorials, teaching the basics of takeoffs & landings, traffic patterns, helicopters, & more\n√ Massive multiplayer with thousands of other pilots and controllers in a single shared world (Professional subscribers only; non-subscribers can get free trial flights for a limited time)\n√ Fully interactive cockpits on many aircraft, wired to real systems models, with working gauges, displays, buttons, & switches\n√ Full startup procedures supported on many aircraft (optionally start any aircraft from cold & dark)\n√ More than 50 systems modeled, each of which can be failed on command\n√ Emergency scenarios\n√ Combat missions\n\n▶ AIRCRAFT\n\nThe app includes 2 aircraft (plus 5 scenery regions) for free. 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