X plane mobile flight plan1/20/2024 ![]() ![]() Plane-Maker was just as critical as X-Plane itself, right from the start, since that is what let users (then and now!) design their own aircraft and instrument panels. I soon expanded it to cover many different types of aircraft, so re-named it to X-Plane. Making a documentary called “The Patent Scam” that explains what Patent Trolling is, and tells the story of about a dozen or so victims of that common practice.Ĥ –You are on record stating you did not like the feel of the flight sims and started your own, can you expand a little on this? What sims exactly failed to live to your expectations and why?Īlso, what was the original premise of Laminar Research? Was it only to create and support a flight simulator? What was the original plan and has it changed?Īustin - I started with MSFS back in the mid-90’s and very quickly saw that MSFS did not let me rapidly customize the flight dynamics and instrument panel to suit the Piper Archer II that I was flying at the time, so I wrote my own sim, called Archer-II IFR, to practice IFR flying. Being sued by a Patent Troll called Uniloc for using the Google Play store to distribute X-Plane for Android, Writing Stradale, a very simple little car-racing simulator for iPad and iPhone that has the most realistic physics of any driving sim that I know of, ![]() Writing Xavion, an iPad App that will guide a (real) aircraft safely down to landing after an engine failure, as well as back up most cockpit flight instruments in a real airplane, on your iPad, ![]() Writing X-Plane, a flight simulator that predicts how real airplanes will fly, so that you can enter the design of any aircraft you can imagine and then fly it in the simulator This combination of schools and colleges plus a pilots’ license got me the training in flying, computer programming, and aerospace engineering that you need to write a flight simulator.Ģ – When would you say the love of aviation started?ģ – Did you ever imagine you would be juggling so many things at once? Ie Flying, Laminar Research, plus all your other activities? Here we have the man behind X-Plane, the man who started it all and produced a civilian mainstream Flight Simulator in 64bit before anyone else, and a man passionate enough to stand by his product day by day.Īvsim is extremely excited to have this opportunity to meet Austin Meyer, and learn what we can expect in the upcoming X-Plane 11 as well as the future beyond that.ġ – Could you please tell us a bit about Austin Meyer? Where were you born/grew up, general background?Īustin - Born in California grew up in South Carolina went to St Pauls School in New Hampshire (Google Meyer Scholar to see a scholarship I have set up for that school) then went to Carnegie Mellon and Iowa State. So having a juggernaut from Microsoft, developed over so many years and with such a large budget, why would you need a new, different sim? Well, why not? Truly, if everyone thought we needed no change, no option, no competition, there would be no innovation, and innovation appears to be Austin Meyer’s middle name, as well as maybe “resilience”? I will let him pick. Sim loyalty is a strange thing.people can go about it as if their virtual lives depended on it. It is hard to ignore the other sim in the mainstream market.
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