After two and a half months of beta testing, Laminar Research released X-Plane version 11.40.
Apart from some new airports and scenery fixes, a lot of work has been done on the experimental flight model. It brings a lot of changes, especially in prop aircrafts’ characteristics. Let’s have a look at them briefly:
- stall improvements
- wake turbulences
- exhaust thrust
- tail downwash is now delayed
- improved propwash swirl
- better supersonic flight dynamics and transition to supersonic speed
- improved wave shape
- …
You can read through all the changes and their explanation at X-Plane’s website or watch a video.
To try the new flight model, you’ll first need to enable it in the General settings:
The update has already been pushed to the servers and you can download it through the installer or automatically (Steam users).