Austin Meyer, creator of the X-Plane flight simulator made an announcement recently on his website regarding the closure of the ACES studio by Microsoft:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.x-plane.com\/ms_to_xp\/ms_to_xp.html<\/a><\/p>\n X-Plane has become a real world-class flight simulation platform and with the SDK it is a great choice for cockpit builders.\u00a0 I’m a user of X-Plane and I’ve written plug-ins for it.\u00a0 I would highly recommend this if you’re looking for a commercial\u00a0 alternative to Microsoft Flight Simulator.\u00a0 For those that are interested in an Open Source flight simulator, you cannot<\/em> beat FlightGear<\/a><\/p>\n I should also mention that X-Plane is cross-platform.\u00a0 It’s available for Windows, Linux and Macintosh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Austin Meyer, creator of the X-Plane flight simulator made an announcement recently on his website regarding the closure of the ACES studio by Microsoft: http:\/\/www.x-plane.com\/ms_to_xp\/ms_to_xp.html X-Plane has become a real world-class flight simulation platform and with the SDK it is a great choice for cockpit builders.\u00a0 I’m a user of X-Plane and I’ve written plug-ins […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sitenews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/simpits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/simpits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/simpits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/simpits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/simpits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/simpits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/simpits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/simpits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/simpits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/simpits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}