And stay away from too much novelty or unproven plugins unless you are willing to walk the road with a 'developer' to improve their software, which can be fun too, but expect problems and work around them. If you enjoy staying up to date with all things X. Here you find a snippet of this weeks major events, including standout freeware releases, X-Plane 12 news, developer updates, plus reviews from the guys and gals at XPlaneReviews. Welcome to our weekly roundup of everything X-Plane. The best approach is to load only that which you need for a mission or exercise, like only the aircraft, scenery and plugins for the game-plan, and you may find that your sim begins to run just a little bit better. Sunday 11th February - Whats New in the World of X-Plane. As a real-life flying instructor, also on high-end full motion sims (Level D), I have seen and experienced that to often to not believe it. Keep a good record, and choose to live with less plugins rather than more complications, and you will be fine.įlight simulator setup can be tricky and often suffer from user-induced errors, or by placing too much complication into the system, which not only slows the hardware down, but also then produce unrealistic outputs which are not true-to-life. xOrganizer can do some of that, or at least tell you that you must, but also not for all plugins, of which there are hundreds, some written by not-so-good coders. I have run XPlane from version 10 onwards, and it is a powerful and complicated application that needs attention every now and again, especially if you have not used it for a while and plugins have since been updated, and which XPlane will not update for you as it is third-party software. To isolate the startup and shutdown problems in XPlane, which happens from time to time, I use xOrganizer to enable/disable plugins, scenery, aircraft etc, to isolate what is causing the problem, and then work on that issue through updates or settings. It is a very slight inconvenience compared to the value of having live tracking on Navigraph IMO. When I shut XPlane down, I simply right-click Simlink in the taskbar and select "Quit" (Not "Sign Out"), and XPlane shuts down after that. That Navigraph Simlink prevents XPlane 11 from shutting down, is a very old problem that I have lived with.