The choice of landing pads and airports is equally impressive with over 30,000 locations ranging from oil rigs and frigates (which pitch and roll in stormy weather) to commercial airports and helipads. And if that’s not enough, there’s an in-game plane designer to design your own plane with.
The impressive thing is that X-Plane models the flight handling of each different aircraft so that no two planes ever feel the same. There are 30 planes to choose from but you can add over 1400 more aircraft with add-ons created by fans and plane enthusiasts. Not only that but the choice of planes you can fly in X-Plane is incredible ranging from the Cirrus Vision SF 50 to a Lockheed Blackbird and even a Space Shuttle Orbiter. X-Plane allows you to do everything from shoot VFR and IFR approaches to preparing for emergencies or improving your navigation and landing skills.
Even professional pilots use it on down time to keep their skills sharp. In fact, X-Plane is so realistic that it’s used by pilot training schools, aerospace engineers and even NASA to design, simulate and test aircraft. X-Plane is an incredible piece of work with highly detailed graphics, cockpits, airports, plane handling and weather conditions.
If you are entering a Simulator Aircraft Type manually, make sure you select the appropriate value for the Category, such as "Simulator", "Training Device", or "PCATD" (Personal Computer-based Aviation Training Device).X-Plane is designed by an ex-professional pilot is and is easily the most realistic flight sim available for both Mac and PC. LogTen will recognize one of these has already been entered, and prompt you to set it as B732 SIM. If you have a B732 in your logbook already, add a new Aircraft Type and name it B732. Need to track simulators of specific types? If a type already exists in your logbook, enter a duplicate of that type, and you'll be prompted to set it as a simulator type. Select an Aircraft or Aircraft Type and you'll be able to see the flights flown with that particular entry, and see the total time too! More than meets the eye! LogTen's powerful bi-directional database structure means that not only is a flight "linked" to an aircraft (meaning a change in the aircraft entry updates in every flight in that aircraft) but that each Aircraft and even each Aircraft Type knows the flights that are logged with it and can quickly display information based on this. Add another C172, and change it to C172P.
You may add a new Aircraft Type and enter C172 to populate the type information, and then change it to C172N. You may fly multiple varieties of a Cessna 172, and these are currently grouped into as a single C172 type. This is also how we recommend keeping track of variants of the same type. For example, just change "TRIN" back to "TB-20".
LogTen offers these codes to help you fill in this information quickly, but if you would like it to appear differently in your logbook, feel free to change the Type after. If you start entering "TB" into the Type, you'll be given some options that may match your search, and you'll see "TB-20" is included in the model information of the TRIN type.ĭon't feel obligated to keep your aircraft types listed by these official codes.
For example, a more difficult to locate aircraft type is a TB-20 - its "official" code is a bit vague. Wikipedia: List of ICAO aircraft type designatorsĪlso, you can often search and locate these types by key pieces of an aircraft type.FAA ORDER JO 7340.2D, starting on page 411.Here are a few links to help you identify these: These are generally 4-digit codes, like C152 or B734 (for a B737-400). It draws its information from the FAA list of types, and you can automatically populate the details by entering in its official "FAA Type ID" into the Type field. LogTen also contains a database of the vast majority of Aircraft Types to help you fill in this information. By way of example, when flying a C172, just log your time as PIC, LogTen knows that a C172 is an SE airplane because that information will have been set on the Types page. Once this is done, there is no need to separate your time out within LogTen by SE PIC, SE Dual, etc. Because of this, it's important to set the Engine Type, Category, and Class of each of your Aircraft Types at the outset. So instead of taking up a separate time field to track something like Jet time, and Multi-Engine time, LogTen uses the Aircraft Type to automatically track all of this in the background. When you're flying an A320 or a B732, your time will naturally be Jet time. Set up your aircraft types and LogTen does the rest of the work for you