X Plane 10 Freeware Aircraft
I have the X-Plane 11 demo and I am trying to understand the. Just check out X-Plane.org the XP community is pretty active with creating freeware. A lot of XP10 aircraft and scenery is compatible, you just have to try it. 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.
X-Plane Freeware Primer
Weather/Clouds:
Clouds HD 2.0 Extending the look of the standard clouds. Making the skies more happy.
NOAA Plugin Injecting 8 layered wind data into x-planes weather engine. Simply one of the best plugins for x-plane out there.
Scenery Objects:
World 2 X-Plane World2XPlane will add forests, regional houses and landmarks using a list of highly configurable rules, based on open street map data.
OSM Pro Series Like w2Xplane but even more precise OSM data.
Treelines and Farms Adding tree lines and farms in your scenery. Making the look and feel of the scenery more “organic”.
X Plane 11 Freeware Aircraft
Enhanced Runways HD Better looking runways... yay!
Scenery orthophotos:
Ortho4XP This uses Google maps / Bing / USGS and many more for generating high quality photo tiles. Highly recommended!
Scenery Zones LowRes photo tiles for Europe.
IT Zones Good photo tiles for just Italy.
UHD Spain HD Photo tiles for Spain and its islands. This is how your photo tiles should look like. Really well done.
Scenery Meshes:
UHD Mesh 30m DEM resolution data.
HD Mesh 90m DEM resolution data.
Visual Enhancement:
Flight with LUA Lua 5.1 script engine for X-Plane. You need it for RTH.
RTH Adding atmospheric scattering, Raleigh and a lot more. Really a must have!
European City Lights Adds more street lights in cities, they will look brighter. Deletes streetlights at highways.
Airports:
Aircraft:
B 737-800 Great jetliner + 3D cockpit
LT-401 Small turboprop + 3D cockpit
Eclipse 550 Light business jet + 3D cockpit
Embraer E-170 E-Jet Small jetliner + 3D cockpit. Was payware, freeware since August 2016.
Fokker F27-600 Turboprop airliner + 3D cockpit.
Douglas DC-9 Great jetliner + 3D cockpit
Aero Boero AB-115 Light GA from Argentina. Used to be payware.
Ilyushin-IL-96-400 Four-Engine Airliner. Used to be payware.
Yak 55 Aerobatic plane which used to be payware, now free!
Mil Mi-2 Former payware helicopter now free! + 3D cockpit
Kalinin K7 Russian monstrosity that allegedly can fly + 3D cockpit
Mitsubishi Zero Beautifully crafted WWII airplane + 3D cockpit
Tools:
EFASS It is a swissknife for X-Plane. It can do a lot but nothing really good. I would suggest, you should take a look at the demo as it is freemium.
X-Camera X-Camera is an enhanced camera system for X-Plane that lets you define multiple view categories and multiple views within those categories that are associated with specific aircraft.
XHSI XHSI (eXternal High-resolution Simulator Instruments) is an add-on for the X-Plane flight simulator. It displays the PFD, ND, EICAS, Flaps and Gear indicator, Clock/Chronometer, etc... in separate windows. In general, the instruments can be displayed in B737-NG or A320 style.
Landing Speed Landing Speed plugin grades quality of landing. It shows vertical speed at the moment of touch down in feet per minute and meters per second as well as textual grade of landing quality.
[xOrganizer] (http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/31085-xorganizer-windows/) A great tool for X-Plane! Manipulates scripts, lets you review all the addon scenery on a map, mesh coverage etc. Pretty exceptional.
[X-FMC] (http://www.x-fmc.com/) Universal FMC. This plugin helps you following IFR flightplans on X-Plane and interacts with X-Plane default autopilot.
[124th ATC v2] (http://124thatc.matacchieri.eu/) 124thATC v2 is a free plugin for X-Plane 10 that emulates ATC and AI traffic control. It is developed by Antonello Matacchieri and based on Helicharly original 2009 124thATC 1.31 for X-Plane 8-9. It has been completely rewritten adding a lot of new features and X-Plane 10 full support.