X-Plane for iPad and X-Plane HDEF 4G Manual - X-Plane.com

1. Introduction to X-Plane for iPad/X-Plane HDEF 4GX-Plane for iPad and X-Plane HDEF 4G are the mostcomplete mobile flight simulators available.Welcome to the world of airliners, carriers, helicopters, gliders,fighters, and rocket-powered fliers—all in one app, and alloptimized to fill the beautiful, high-resolution iPad and iPhone4 screens.These simulators are based on the most powerful, versatile,and accurate flight simulator in the world—the same simulatorused by companies like NASA, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin.Using this flight model, it's easy to believe you're actuallysoaring through the clouds over California, Alaska, Austria,and more.The iPad's large screen and powerful processor provide morepower than we have seen in any other mobile device to date—with the exception, that is, of the iPhone 4. X-Plane takesadvantage of this power on both platforms using sceneryterrain data of much higher resolution than is found in theiPhone 3G/iPod Touch versions, and image textures that arefour times as detailed as the ones found in our other mobilesimulators.In addition to this detail, 3-D buildings have been introduced,dotting the terrain in the appropriate places, and true-to-lifeairport terminal buildings can be found in Seattle, SanFrancisco, and Innsbruck, Austria.New instrument panels grace the cockpits of the aircraft, withknobs, switches, and levers that function just like in a realcockpit. Within the cockpit, you'll hear air traffic controlchatter—just like you would in the real aircraft.The application comes with forty-five aircraft, ranging from theCessna 172, to the F-18 Super Hornet, to the ASK 21 glider, tothe SR-71 Blackbird, to the UH-60 Black Hawk, to the Boeing787 Dreamliner. These aircraft can fly across over twentyregions, located in Florida, Alaska, Washington, New York,Nepal, Austria, and more.Updates to the X-Plane simulators will be releasedperiodically. We'll be making improvements to the graphics,flight model, and interface technology, and releasing them asfree updates available through the App Store. We have bigplans for the future of the mobile sim!Thanks the phenomenal new scenery, excellent flight model,and fun new interface, flying X-Plane for iPad/X-Plane HDEF4G is a truly worthwhile experience. Try it out and see.I. About This ManualThis is version 9.622 of the X-Plane for iPad/X-Plane HDEF4G manual, last updated August 13, 2012.Throughout the manual are cross-reference links, formatted inbold, dark-gray type, like this. Clicking one of these links willtake you to the indicated location of the manual. For instance,clicking this Getting Acquainted with the Simulatorreference will take you to Chapter 2.Additionally, clicking on any image will open a full-size versionof it located on the X-Plane Wiki.5