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Quick Start Guides are available in Japanese and Chinese. PDF manuals are available in German, French, and Spanish. The latest version will always be available online on the X‑Plane website. This is version 11.50 of the manual to the home and professional versions of X‑Plane (X-Plane 11 and X‑Plane 11 for Professional Use, respectively).

A Digital Copy of X-Plane Is Not A Backup.

The Digital Download Version of X-Plane Requires an Internet Connection to Run.

A Digital Download Product Key Is Like a Credit Card Number.

My PC Freezes after Running X-Plane a While.

The Simulator's Measurement of Time is Slow.

Airplanes Flutter and Crash in the Simulator.

X-Plane Gives Errors about Missing DLLs, or There Are Strange Graphical Anomalies.

The X-Plane Installer Fails to Extract a File.

Water World, or 'Help, there's water everywhere!'.

Projector Setup for X-Plane Professional.

Lining Up the Horizon (Without Vertical Offsets).

Networking Multiple Computers for Multiple Displays.

Driving Multiple Displays from One Computer.

Tuning the Handling of Aircraft in X-Plane.

Expert Essays: Unleashing the Full Potential of the Simulator.

Flying a Boeing 747 with the Piggybacking Space Shuttle.

Using an Instructor Operator Station (IOS) for Flight Training.

Heading, Altitude, Vertical Speed, Speed Hold, Flight Level Change, and Auto-Throttle.

Flying an Instrument Approach in X-Plane.

Gyroscopes and Their Application in Flight.

Navigation, Autopilots, and Flying on Instruments.

Changing How Damage Affects the Aircraft.

Viewing the Behind-the-Scenes Flight Model.

Replaying a Flight from a Flight Data Recorder (FDR).

Viewing the Path Taken by Your Aircraft.

Downloading Current Real-World Weather from the Internet.

Setting the Rendering Options for Best Performance.

Controlling Joystick Sensitivity and Aircraft Stability.

Configuring and Tuning Your X-Plane Installation.

Special Considerations for Digital Download Users.

Special Considerations for Windows Vista and 7 Users.

Configuring Essential Yoke/Joystick Functions.

About the Versions of the X-Plane Simulator.

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