X-Plane is the world's most comprehensive and powerful flight simulator available. Welcome to the world of props jets single- and multi-engine airplanes as well as gliders helicopters and new Very Light Jets such as the Cirrus Jet.The most realistic flight model available for personal computers. It comes with subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics simulating aircraft from the Bell 206 Jet-Ranger helicopter and Cessna 172 light plane to the supersonic Concorde and Mach-3 XB-70 Valkyrie.Includes over 40 aircraft spanning the aviation industry (and history) and several hundred more are freely downloadable from the internet.Land at any of over 18000 airports as well as test your mettle on aircraft carriers helipads on building tops frigates that pitch and roll in the waves.Weather is variable from clear skies and high visibility to thunderstorms with controllable wind wind shear turbulence and microbursts. Rain snow and clouds are available for an instrument flying challenge. Real weather data can be downloaded allowing you to fly in the actual conditions that currently exist!Includes detailed failure modeling with 35 systems that can be failed manually or randomly when you least expect it! You can fail instruments engines flight controls and landing.Includes Plane-Maker which lets the player create airplanes and World-Maker which lets the player create scenery. Also included is Weather Briefer that makes a weather briefing based on actual weather conditions.System Requirements:DVD Drive Mac OS X v10.3 or later G4/G5 or Intel @ 1GHz System Memory: 1GB RAM Available Hard Drive: 60 GB Video Card: 64 MB VRAM Recommended: USB Joystick or yoke Internet Format: MAC 10.0 OR LATER/DVD SOFTWARE Genre: ENTERTAINMENT UPC: 740569000454 Manufacturer No: 1055