11/19/2023 0 Comments X plane 10.50 beta default airport.dat![]() It is to take all the current areas that needed attention, areas that have not been refined or of what simulator users have complained about for years, and then not just fix and address these areas, but make them MEGA, "blow them out of the water" so to speak, and in reality the success of this X-Plane 12 version rests on that aspect completely. ![]() To put this X-Plane 12 version into perspective. But X-Plane 12 is more focused on fixing up already current features by making them far, far more efficient and far, far more effective assets, in other words in American jargon "Upsizing". Earlier most version releases focused on new features and major simulator changes, like X-Plane 10 was a visual overhaul, and X-Plane 11 was a system (Vulcan/Metal API) overhaul. The background to X-Plane 12 is actually unusual from past release editions. If your expecting a MSFS (Microsoft Flight Simulator) clone with X-Plane 12, then that is not what it is. That late aspect will hopefully translate into a much more fully formed beta version, as the X-Plane 11 version was quite buggy for a while (four months), so this time Laminar Research have had far more significant time on it's development (the Alpha stage release was as long ago as early March 22) to make it a more efficient and stable release. In most X-Plane upgrade cycles in the past it took mostly only four years between each version, so to a point X-Plane 12 is late, basically by a whole year. In reality the Beta release IS the launch of the new version we now have here, the bugs and problems aside. In the case of X-Plane 11, it was released as a Beta on Nov 24th 2016, and as noted went final in Mar 2017. The Beta will go though a few numbered upgrades as the development process works out the bugs and issues, but around say vb12.9 (usually two or three months), it with then go to a RC or Release Candidate version, usually there are two or three RC's in rounding up the final bugs and issues and then finally X-Plane 12 will go "Final", as the official X-Plane 12 Release v12.00. So if you want a fully working X-Plane Simulator then this beta release version is not for you. But it's not a final release, as it is still only a development release. The "Beta" release is a public purchase version, so everyone can now access the new Simulator and it's new features. ![]() Then comes this (current) public Beta release noted as an "Early Access". A first release is the Alpha release, a highly developed version only for the developers and third party developers to align the Simulator into a working model. There is a process in numbered version releases. Notable is that the US$59.95 payment will cover both not only the access to X-Plane 12, but also the current X-Plane 11 as well, which is good value for newcomers to the X-Plane Simulator. But the initial cost also covers all development and any new features for that full version run, up until the next version is released in the development cycle in approx 4-5 years. Basically every 4-5 Years Laminar Research the X-Plane's developers releases another numbered upgrade version of the Simulator, the current version is v11 (v11.53) that was released originally back in March 2017.Įach release is a new version and to use it, it will have to be repurchased, the cost of X-Plane 12 is US$59.95. The X-Plane Flight Simulator was originally released as X-Plane 1.00 back in 1995 which is now 25 years ago. X-Plane 12 - Next Generation X-Plane Beta release "Early Access"
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