As long as they are all logged into the same WIFI network, they will see each other, and: Viola! You now have an Instructor Operator Station for X-Plane on your iPhone or iPad!” There’s not really a manual, but at the dedicated Apple Store page you can find the following instructions “Simply fire up X-Plane on your Macintosh, Windows, or Linux personal computer and Control Pad on your iPhone or iPad. When you use wifi, be sure that your iOS equipment and your X-Plane computer are on the same network. To connect your Control Pad app to your X-Plane computer, you use your wifi network.
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In that respect the iPad Pro is much faster and better to work with neither less, the iPad 3 with iOS 9 can do the work too. I tested the Control Pad app with both the iPad 3 and iPad Pro, but it must be said that the iPad 3 is a bit slow in responding and thus also sending data to the X-Plane computer. As long as the iOS hardware can make a connection with your X-Plane 11. Then I use an iMac Pro with X-Plane 11 and macOS Mojave and Catalina, but this could be also a Windows or Linux computer.
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The iPad 3 has iOS 9.3.6 while the iPad Pro has – of this writing October/November 2019 – the new iPadOS. As of this writing, I’m using for the Control Pad app either my (very) old iPad 3 and the iPad Pro 2015. Perhaps worth to highlight right now the app requires iOS 7.0 or later and it is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. “Now, you can get this experience in X-Plane for Macintosh, Windows, and Linux personal computers by running this App on your iPad or iPhone (…with, of course, a willing tormentor to set all the various failures at the worst-possible time! Or just set them yourself. “The goal is to survive the flight… despite the impossible weather, aircraft weight and balance, and equipment failures that are being triggered by the devilish instructor cowering behind the pilot.” But first, let me introduce you to the Laminar Research X-Plane Control Pad.Īccording to Laminar Research “When the Pros (professionals) fly their flight simulators for currency-checks, an instructor is hiding behind the scenes, setting location, weather, and inducing simulated aircraft failures during the flight test.”
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Oh yes, I’m aware that this free Apple Store app is already for a long time available, but I get the impression that it’s a bit “a forgotten Laminar Research app”. When you own an Apple iPhone or iPad, and using X-Plane 11 on your Mac, Windows or Linux, then this article could be very interesting to you. Laminar’s X-Plane Control Pad Introduction