The X-Plane 11 manual is a great online resource for finding answers and solving problems. And best of all, its searchable. Go here and use your browser's find function or the Table of Contents to find more information. If you start X-Plane 11 the first time OR deleted(!) the scenerypacks.ini, it will create a new scenerypacks.ini and populate it exactly in the alphabetic order of your current folder names in “Custom Scenery” (in this case, the zzz prefix helps).
X-Plane has always been the professionals choice for a flight simulation package. However, over the past few years - X-Plane has become more popular with the 'general' flight simulator user, the user that flies at home on his PC or Mac. The last few versions of X-Plane have been marketed towards general users and it is becoming increasingly popular within the flight simulation community.
Image shows Antarctica scenery add-on in the latest X-Plane version 11.
With the increase in popularity, freeware developers have started creating add-ons such as aircraft and scenery packages for X-Plane. X-Plane is said to be more realistic in terms of flight dynamics than any of the Microsoft Flight Simulator packages, mainly because of the way X-Plane gives flight to aircraft models.
In Microsoft Flight Simulator, aircraft models are all similar with a simple configuration file to provide simple flight dynamics, while in X-Plane, aircraft shapes, sizes and weights are taken into consideration in the simulation - giving more realistic flight.
While there are not as many add-on packages and downloads for X-Plane as there is for the Microsoft Flight simulators, this is a growing section and it's becoming increasingly popular.
Featured in this section are many aircraft, vehicles, helicopters and scenery expansions for X-Plane, all available for download with your Fly Away Simulation account. Why not try X-Plane today? You can get your hands on the free demo here.
Perhaps you're already an avid X-Plane user, if so - you're sure to find a home here. You can visit our X-Plane 11 discussion forum for discussion topics, and you don't even have to become a member to post. You will be pleased to know that we have recently reviewed the latest X-Plane 11 for our readers. You can read the review here.
You will also be keen to know that most (if not all) of the X-Plane 10 add-ons also with in X-Plane version 11. So if you find anything that specifies XP10, it should work in your new copy of XP11 too.
X-plane 11 Mods
View all of the X-Plane downloads in the sections below.