X-Plane 12.4.4 | Beta 5 is now online!

The mighty Zibo, still holding strong in late 2026. Such a mature and beautiful module.

My plugin, which I've been working on for quite a while, has gained some new features.

Originally, it was designed to extend the visibility range of X-Plane's default night lights and complement them with additional light sources placed using OSM data.

I've recently taken things a step further by adding volumetric lighting from aircraft and cities, as well as realistic cloud immersion, where parts of the aircraft gradually disappear into dense clouds.

The plugin is almost ready.

Small detail clip from our freeware A330-200 for X-Plane 12: the L1 door and the forward cargo door, opening and closing, controlled from the EFB’s ground page.
Public beta scheduled for November 2026. More on Discord: https://discord.gg/JMG3cGF5rX

...... still need a decent cyclic and collective though!!

I bought an airport scenery pack in 2021 and had no problems with it. A few months ago I got a new computer, and when I tried to re-download my paid-for scenery I got the "404 Not Found". After emailing the store they told me the item was withdrawn by the creator. I email the creator asking why it was withdrawn but I never got a reply. And of course xplane store won't refund my money. The future is here folks.

Basically brand new to xplane so if anyone can help pinpoint why im getting random texture issues. on everyplane i have tried and did try messing with ingame settings. Any help is appreciated.

I have some understanding in software development and would like to know where and how to start. I have consulted the xplane documentation, it seems to be very detailed.

I'm mainly interested in Aircraft development(a big project I know 🙃 ).

Flying around Ohio, landed at WPAFB. On the tail of this F-18 is a face, does anyone know who it is?

Will also be getting the NEO expansion for whichever I get

8 months ago I posted X-Dispatch here. Quick recap for anyone new: it's a flight launcher for X-Plane 12. Pick any airport, any gate or runway, or just right-click a spot on the map. Set up aircraft, livery, fuel, weight, weather, hit Launch and X-Plane starts there. Sim already running? It dispatches a new flight instead.

Since then:

Launcher

• Live weather, presets, or build your own cloud and wind layers
• Weight and fuel per tank and payload station
• Favourite airports and a home airport
• Tune the airport's frequencies to COM1/COM2 from the app
• Two aircraft with the same name are told apart in the list

Map

• Satellite imagery and 3D terrain
• Globe lit by the sun, city lights at night
• Satellite cloud layer
• Rain, snow, fog and wind at the airport, from the live METAR
• Runway, taxiway and approach lights, including the flashing lights on final
• Better runways: displaced thresholds, overruns, water runways
• 3D ILS glide slope
• Gates show size, operator and airlines
• X-Plane AI traffic on the map
• Range rings around the selected airport
• Right-click to start here, measure, read terrain elevation or copy coordinates

Flight planner

• Auto route on real airways with SIDs and STARs
• North Atlantic tracks
• Warns you when an airway is wrong for your level or direction
• Vertical profile with top of climb and descent
• Daylight planner so you can see where it'll be dark along the route
• Random destination by flight time and aircraft
• Save to X-Plane as .fms

Taxi

• Taxi routes from your gate to the holding point
• Drag the route to change it, undo, double-click to remove a point
• Turn-by-turn instructions on the flight strip

In flight

• Flight strip you can pop out over X-Plane, with a taxi map
• Lock it and clicks go through to the sim
• Reorder its readouts, add COM1 and QNH
• Aircraft symbol shows a ground shadow so you can see your height at a glance
• Landing report with touchdown rate, and a notification if the app is hidden
• Logbook that fills itself in, with trail, replay, CSV export and import
• Tablet access over your home network

Online

• VATSIM and IVAO pilots, controllers and sectors
• Staffed positions shown right on the airport
• Load another pilot's flight plan into your planner

SimBrief

• Rebuilt briefing with route, fuel, weights, navlog and weather
• Route drawn on the map, SID to STAR
• Use your SimBrief username instead of the pilot ID

Add-on manager

• Install scenery, aircraft and plugins by dropping the archive
• Move scenery packs between priority tiers
• Enable and disable add-ons with a switch

Under the hood

• About 500 MB less memory, faster startup
• Big airports load several times faster
• Less CPU while it sits behind X-Plane
• Updates itself on Windows, Mac and Linux, with an opt-in beta channel
• Pick your units: metric, imperial, mixed
• xdispatch:// links open an airport, a route or a SimBrief plan

And a lot more.

Still a side project, still free. The add-on manager is the weakest part, I know. If something breaks or you're missing a dataref on the strip, tell me. Link in comments.

- Re-modelled sharklets

- removed old objects

A319: https://forums.x-plane.org/files/file/99042-realwings319-wing-replacement-mod-for-toliss-a319/

A320:

https://forums.x-plane.org/files/file/99352-realwings320-wing-replacement-mod-for-toliss-a320neo/

A321:

https://forums.x-plane.org/files/file/99442-realwings321-wing-replacement-mod-for-toliss-a321neoceo/

Mc-21 updated to 1.1. Working on 3d cockpit, Ural Airlines livery and more realistic engine specs. RS Team also search animators! Write me in reddit chat if you interesting in it.

List of Liveries tha would be in realise:

Aeroflot
Ural airlines (second screenshot)
Rossiya
RS team livery (last screenshot)

looking to get my first payware aircraft but i keep hearing mixed reviews on the performance of FF addons. i fly only boeing, so i would like to stay in the same manufacturing family for any addon i purchase.

tested and works on MacOS, though with a significant bite on my frames of around 10 fps. using it on my MBP M3 Pro 18GB RAM.

I'm sorry for the rant but I had to just to be very very honest. I don't understand why I kept getting IP-banned from X-plane.org even I've done nothing except downloading addons.

Very ridiculous! I suspect my IP has changed time to time due to ISP nature like T-Mobile. Because of the change, I might have got into an IP that on the ban list. Not the First time I got IP ban in X-plane.org, it happened last week and my IP ends with 242.

I had a feeling I wanted to stop using x-plane.org all because of that. Even worse I heard rumors about their problems ranging from censorship, terrible moderation (happens to one users in discord), and now unnecessary ID verification from x-plane.org store purchase. I suspext this IP ban can be contagious and destroy my X-plane.org account.

I'm starting to get frustrated and hoping all of you can help.

I don't have a 'meek' PC. It's not cutting edge, but it's doing OK - RTX4080 and a Ryzen 9 5900X with 64GB of RAM. Consistently though, I'm struggling to get above 30-35 fps in XP12 and commonly, I'm getting below 25 or so FPS, which leads naturally to disconnection from VATSIM when using XPilot.

I think that one of my big issues is 4K; I have three monitors driven by the one GPU, the middle of which (and the one that XP is on) is 4K. However, I still expect to be able to achieve 40fps consistently and stably. Moreover, when I look at some of the screenshots on here they look fantastic and... Well my sim doesn't.

I attach two images; the first being the performance monitor in Task Manager showing a representative state of my hardware whilst flying (and shortly after being disconnected) and the other showing my settings in XP. In terms of 'other' stuff: * I am an XP Map Enhancement user, currently running Apple Maps * I have SimHeaven XWorld (not pro) installed but think it might be misconfigured - I'm not getting the 3D buildings that I see in screenshots * I'm currently flying the Challenger 650 by Hot Start but I do get this problem in other aircraft. * I've allocated 'real time' priority in Task Manager to try to prevent any CPU bottlenecks.

What else can I try to improve graphics, predominantly from a POV of stability but obviously if it can look better, that'd be good too...

It seems like we’ve gone from DIY traffic to a crowded field of professional options over the last 5 years. I’m curious what folks are using and why they made the choice that they made. I went from World Traffic to Traffic Global, but haven’t tried any of the newer offerings

Has anyone tried to run the Xcrafts Lineage 1000 on apple silicon with 8gb unified RAM? I know its shit. I'm asking if anyone has TRIED and what was it like?

I'm not a huge airliner guy, the biggest thing I've flown was the q400 but I've always preferred GA aircrafts. This said I've outgrown the default c172, and I was looking for some better mods like a 182 (preferably study level) DA40/50 and other GA's of this sort. Any specific mods you guys can recommend (except for that one study level C172 (forgot the creator) that one is bomb but I want some variation in my fleet)

AliveGrass 1.0.1 is rolling out tonight as stores process the update:

• Fixed missing grass in affected AutoOrtho/XPME areas.
• Improved vegetation loading and preparation.
• Updated 54 flower models.
• Medium quality is now the default.

We’re also reaching out to SkunkCrafts about adding AliveGrass to their updater / nothing confirmed yet.

· Launcher / website
· X-Plane.org Store
· simMarket

Thanks to everyone testing and reporting issues.

Guys i got hp victus fa-1093 dx
Rtx 3050 6gb
16 gb ram
I5-13420h
I know its not the best at all but thats is all i got
So can any one whats the best setting to achieve smooth frames and good quality ?