Flip a few more switches and the aircraft’s exterior door closes, parking brake is released, lights are turned on, and away you go. Click the starter button and the jet engine comes to life. Turn on two batteries and the systems start up. The Cirrus SF50, as my first type that I’m really checking out, is already a fairly straight forward aircraft in real life to start up (I watched a couple of videos featuring the real life jet) and in X-Plane 11 its dead easy. X-Plane 11’s aircraft certainly have 3D cockpits (something they didn’t have in earlier iterations) that are clickable, however, systems modeling on these aircraft is fairly light. From cold start to flying around From the left seat of the Cirrus SF50 in X-Plane 11.Ĭoming from series like IL-2 and DCS World have given me some expectations on everything from flying to fidelity of systems modeling and I was curious to see where the default aircraft that ship with X-Plane 11 sit on the spectrum.
The first aircraft I’ve decided to learn is the egg shaped Cirrus Vision SF50 – a 7-seat, very light jet that appeals to me as a fun aircraft to get started with. X-Plane has had a good reputation over the year’s and the latest updates seem to have caught the wider attention of the flight sim community so I wanted to really see what all the fuss was about.
During the recent Steam sale I picked up Laminar Research’s X-Plane 11 as I expand into the realm of the civil aviation flight simulation.
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