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Well, it seems that Austin’s previous announcement (see this post) that an iPhone version of X-Plane wasn’t possible was his little joke, as he’s now released it 
(update: you can read our review here).
Here’s his announcement of the launch:
As you SHOULD have been able to guess from my last email, X-Plane is now here for the iPhone, and it is FUN!
The iPhone is not QUITE as powerful as a Quad-Core desktop
, so I had to really scale it down to a perfect little ’slice’ of X-Plane.
You can choose from the Cirrus Jet, Columbia-400, Cessna 182, and Piaggo Avanti, with flight physics that are about 95% as accurate as X-Plane for desktop, so the flight modeling is really just amazing for a little device of this size.. really just stunning.
You can drag the throttle up on the left, the flaps on the right, gear and brakes on the bottom, and just tap the screen anywhere around the center to bring up the menus. (One reviewer write that the app needs to have settings… umm.. it DOES… he just did not tap in the center
of the screen to SEE them!)Tilt the phone left, right, up and down for yoke control!
How such a tiny little device as this could run a sim like X-Plane, I can hardly imagine, but it does, and running this sim is like having a teeny little window into an alternate universe where a little mini Cirrus Jet is zooming through the mountains of the Innsbruck, Austria, as you tilt the little frame that shows you a windows into this little virtual world.
And, indeed, here it is on iTunes.
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tom 09.13.08 at 12:14 pm
That is awesome. Well done to the dev. If anyone is in contact with him could you please request a ww2 plane in a future update? P51 would be just great
Bob 09.14.08 at 6:20 am
I’m not seeing X-Plane on the US iTunes App Store. Was it pulled? Is this a (cruel) joke