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Ah! Okay...So, yes...Ben was right the first time, and four cores are in effect. Cool!

You're correct. I was going by what Ben said. After reading it more, it appears the Macbook version of i5's are dual core. Even still, given the reports I have from Ben and how X-Plane runs on his machine, I'd say an i5 will pass the test for the Macbook Pro series.

I think you'll be safe on the i5 setup.

Are you sure? Ben purchased a new Macbook in July...it's an i5 quad core. Everything I can find pretty much suggests that Dual Core Macbook Pro's were no longer available as of April of last year.

Hi, Perry, I'm pretty sure the CRJ is unlike any aircraft ever produced for X-Plane up to this point. I could be wrong, but as far as I know it will be the first aircraft to come up with vector driven displays, and this is where your CPU comes in. The "special tech" you are referring to especially applies to those people with more than two cores, but will also be applicable to dual core machines. I don't know how old your Macbook is. I'm really not in a good spot to say, but my inclinations tell me that your Dual Core running at 2.66 and only 256MB may be a bit aged for this product. It would probably be a different story if you were on a quad core at the least with 256MB VRAM. I'd say you could squeeze by on that.

Assuming that you're talking about the 21.5 inch iMac with an i3 processor, it only has 256MB of VRAM, and that's relatively low. I'm sure it'll work, but I don't know how well. With that said, let it be known now that I have NOT tested this aircraft on a 256MB video card, so I cannot vouch as to its performance. For any of you interested... I have tested the CRJ on a more modest computer with the following specs: Intel Dual Core E6850 3.0 GHZ 8GB (X-Plane uses only up to 3GB) ram AMD Radeon 5870 1GB ram The above setup, sans the video card, is 3.5 years old. With the above setup on extreme resolution I am getting about 33-35 fps. With regards to laptops...there are some that I personally feel are suitable. Among those are the latest editions of the Macbook Pro with an i7 CPU and 1GB VRAM. Overall the actual CRJ itself is not overly taxing. It's the plug-in driven screens and systems that chew up most of the power. Philipp has ensured that no optimization for this plug-in has been left out, and with the multiple cores put to use it also helps. With all of this said, the real culprit here will be your CPU!

Maxime, This is not a good way to be questioning performance on your personal machine. I'm not sure any of us have that add-on anyhow. If you're asking about your Macbook Air, I'd say it's unlikely to be a good candidate for this product.

Thanks for sharing your experience, Ola! It's great to hear of your satisfaction in another X-Plane product purchase!

More to it than that, but it's the larger portion of what there is to do.

The airline he was with no longer exists. X-Elbert, I think it's neat you got to be a part of Fly I. To me, it was a fantastic airline and had the economic conditions been right, I think it would have been successful. It was definitely a crazy saga watching that whole ACA turn to Fly I and then vanish.

Charts, calculations, and checklists.

Steven, Untrue. You still have a ticket pending a further response from you with a suggestion to fix this. Considering over 50% of our users are Mac and we can track install success on top of the fact that you see no other complaints here, I'm pretty sure you can safely assume Mac users are getting along just fine.

When it's released.

Tom, I have tested it extensively with non-released products that use Gizmo at their very core. I have never had any issues at ALL. To further this, I often times will use default aircraft (like the 747) as a testbed for Gizmo scripts that I create. The UFMC works great in these scenarios in conjunction with Gizmo as well. If you're interested in testing things out, go ahead and create a simple script for an aircraft (read through the Gizmo forum and learn how to make a simple dataref or something), and then test your aircraft with Gizmo and the UFMC running.

Checklists are included in the Pilot Operating Handbook when purchasing the aircraft.

Quoting Philipp from a previous thread: What you can't do is put VNAV on and leave the plane while fetching coffee. The real CRJ FMS has only very limited advisory capabilities, and they are, as the naming suggests, only advice, never carried out by the plane itself in an automatic way. For version 1.0 we have omitted this in the FMC, as it's value is minimal and we'd like to get this aircraft released. It's definitely on the consideration table for the future depending how well the CRJ performs.

Tom, I've read the post. Gizmo is very advanced in comparison to SASL, and any problems are usually related to a SASL product clashing with a Gizmo one. Gizmo is simply a terminal to feed info into from developers, so if you're having issues with a product and utilization of the UFMC, the problem is likely going to lie with how the developer has coded his/her scripts. Gizmo only does what it's told, just like a C plug-in. Saying Gizmo causes a lot of problems is relative. I could say that SASL causes me a lot of problems, beacuse, well...it does...relatively speaking.

Please don't post false assumptions. Gizmo works just fine with the UFMC, and always has. I use these two as a combo on a daily basis.

As the product page indicates on the same graphic you click to download the manuals, only two of the three are freely available. The third is only provided with purchase of the product. No, it's not. It's listed there as Bombardier.

Manuals released, Take Command! announced, 33 new photos posted. More info here: http://forums.x-pilot.com/index.php?topic=2027.msg18998#msg18998 Enjoy!

Hi, All, The CRJ manuals are now ready for your viewing, along with 33 new photos of the aircraft in the gallery! You will also notice a new product line announcement titled: Take Command! More information about this is on the CRJ-200 page linked below, and a dedicated Take Command! page will be added shortly! Please take note of the following: There will be errors in spelling and grammar here. These were done by Javier (from Spain) and we have every intention to change these soon. That said, Javier's english is good enough to be able to interpret as well as enjoy just fine, and if you have any questions you can ask here! I actually enjoy reading a lot of Javier's work, so I hope you have just as much fun as well! It is incredibly important that if you intend on purchasing this product that you read these manuals and learn how to fly this aircraft! Thanks for the exciting times....25 hrs up without sleep, so it's my time to nap! You can get the manuals here: http://www.x-aviation.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=68

This is going to be heavily dependent on your level of enthusiasm and interest to learn the aircraft. Some people may pick it up quick, others may not. This is part of the reason we will be offering up the free manuals.

You betcha'. 22 hours and still goin'!

Just a simple oversight...we're all tired and excited at once! "Cam" is A-Okay. Thanks for being courteous!