New version 10.50 for X-Plane

South Carolina, 8th September 2016 - Laminar Research, creator of the X-Plane flight simulator franchise, has announced the latest update to X-Plane 10 to version 10.50.

Over the years it has always been the policy of Laminar Research to continually improve X-Plane, providing the most realistic flight simulation available, with flight modeling so accurate that has been adopted by numerous commercial aviation organizations. Now with the release of the latest update, X-Plane 10.50, Laminar has raised desktop flight simulation to a new level of realism.

Major features of the 10.50 update include:

• Hundreds of new detailed 3-D airports now with auto-placed static parked aircraft.

• New U.S. city autogen for more realistic scenery with buildings scaled to their accurate heights.

• Greatly improved Baron & King Air aircraft and 3-D cockpits.

• Global winds aloft files.

• Better AI (artificial intelligence) with virtual aircraft traffic.

• Added support for auto configuration of the Control Pad and Xavion Mobile Apps.

• Improved appearance of clouds.

• Better randomization of AI parking spots.

• Drastic improvement in the speed of the UI.

• Ability to steer certain guided weapon systems with the joystick.

• Better animated effects (prop, etc) in replay mode.

• Frame rate and other performance improvements.

• Numerous bug fixes.

The updates in version 10.50 are too numerous to list, but they can be found in their entirety on the X-Plane website at: http://www.x-plane.com/?article=x-plane-10-50-release-notes