X-Plane 10

X-Plane 10, original big box front cover
Developer
Laminar Research
Publisher
Aerosoft / Boxware
Released
November 2011
Genre
Flight Simulation
Platforms
PC / Mac / Linux

Synopsis

Laminar's blade-element flight model, global scenery and, from patch 10.20 on, a 64-bit core. Instead of looking up how an aircraft behaves in a table, X-Plane works out the forces on the surfaces every frame, which is why it flies differently and why real pilots started treating it as a desktop trainer rather than a game.