r/Xplane

Hey everyone

I am getting into flight simulation. I have decided to go with X-Plane 12. I like Boeing airliners and Cessnas so I definitely want to fly Boeing airliners and Cessnas in the simulation.

Because I like Boeing airliners and Cessnas I am looking to get a yoke and throttle setup for X-Plane 12. Most of the options I see are pretty expensive. Does anyone have any recommendations for budget flight simulation gear that still offers good quality for flying Boeing airliners and Cessnas?

Thanks in advance for your help

Do you actually ever know where you're supposed to park?

I fly the leg properly. OFP, CPDLC, the whole ritual. And then I get into the terminal area and just... pick a stand. Something that looks free and roughly the right size. It's the one point in the flight where the illusion falls apart for me every single time.

So I filled that gap. Before arrival you now get a dispatcher telex over Hoppie with your assigned stand, printed out on the ACARS printer like any other company message.

On arrival to VVNB - Toliss A21N

It does the same for departure, so you know which stand you're pushing back from before you even load into simulator, not just where you end up.

The messaging part was the easy bit. The hard part is the data, because real stand allocation isn't random - it depends on the operator, the aircraft size, terminal layout, domestic vs international. So the backend keeps per-airport stand data and picks something plausible for your callsign and type, rather than throwing a random number at you.

One thing that turned out more interesting than I expected: group flights. If several of you fly the same route together, the dispatcher assigns stands for the whole group instead of everyone guessing separately. You pick how you want it - all parked side by side, or spread out the way a real operation would do it, but still kept as close together as it realistically can.

The catch is that there are thousands of airports (I am sourcing this data externally) and I've personally been to a rounding error of them. So it works the same way the X-Plane Scenery Gateway does: if you know your home field like the back of your hand, you can fill in its stand data and everyone else benefits. That's honestly the part I'd most like help with.

Works worldwide and for any airline, and on X-Plane, MSFS 2020/2024 and P3D.

Disclosure: this is part of AnyAirline (anyairline.app), which I develop. If you want to try it, the setup is short - make an account, pick the network you fly on (there's a "none" option if you fly offline or on SayIntentions), have your Hoppie logon set up in the aircraft, and file a proper flight in the FMC. As long as the dispatcher knows where you're going, the telex turns up on its own.

Happy to answer anything about how the allocation works, or about the airport data if you want to fill in a field you know well. 😄

Coming back from an uphold since FS9, this has been great.. And it keeps getting better, every month, since i started in desember 2025. The future is bright.

When choosing simulator for comeback i laughed when i saw landing comparison between X-Plane and MSFS. It wasn't a question who was the serious one. I think people complaining and demanding on X-Plane and Laminar should switch simulator software, for now. There is absolutely nothing to complain about. It's highly intuitive and modifyable. The flight model is amazing. And getting better??! I love it. I feel a bit pitty for all the critisism the developers are getting. And Toliss... Toliss in X-Plane is the best aircraft i have ever flown on a computer. The Hot Start Challenger 650 also.

Please stop shitposting, and post more of your amazing simulator, guys. Also a big thanks to the indipendent developers of all the amazing freeware that is available..

Looking VERY forward to the years to come, in flightsim.

Happy landings!

Looking for a bit of help. My monitor is 1920x1080p - 60GHz.

I have;

- Ryzen 9 9700x
- RX 9070xt 16 GB
- 32GB DDR5 Ram

For some reason, every so often XP will just not run smooth and slightly jolt slowly. I’ve tried settings really low, really high, no change.

I found some videos on lossless scaling; they worked and helped - and I think it’ll help me. My GPU is used a lot less when it’s in a smaller window - however, when I do it, it puts that window to full screen and is rather ‘zoomed’ and blurry - the videos I’ve watched it doesn’t do that.

Anyone able to tell me what settings to choose/ how to get it to work properly for my setup?

Hi everyone, i was wondering if do you guys mostly fly to default airports or do you use payware ones? And do you think default airports are good enough?