X-Plane 10.30 Lives!

Laminar Research, creators of the X-Plane flight simulator franchise, has released the latest update to X-Plane, version 10.30.

This latest release represents the largest and most significant X-Plane update to date.   It not only contains numerous fixes and performance improvements, but also some substantial additions to the product itself.  Foremost is the inclusion of the new GPS.  The previous versions of X-Plane also included a GPS instrument but it could only do direct-to navigation and could not implement a GPS approach.   With the recent introduction of GPS enabled approach systems at many airports, the new GPS in X-Plane will allow customers to practice actual GPS approaches using an instrument familiar to most general aviation pilots. The new GPS is a drop-in replacement for the old X-Plane GPS, so that with one click in Laminar’s PlaneMaker, old aircraft can be upgraded to the more IFR capable version.  The X-Plane 10.30  default aircraft come with the new GPS already installed.  The new GPS is based on the Garmin 430 and Garmin 530 and both variants are included.

The 10.30 update also includes major improvements to both the weather and scenery systems.   The system for the placement of autogen scenery has been refined so buildings, trees, and other objects more accurately reflect their real-world counterparts.

With the recent release of World Editor 1.3 and the Airport Scenery Gateway, hundreds of new highly detailed airports have also been included in this latest and major update to X-Plane 10.

We’ll have a 10.31 bug fix patch, probably in about a week, with a few straggler bugs that didn’t make the cut.  In the meantime, aircraft designers can start using the new GPS.

About Ben Supnik

Ben is a software engineer who works on X-Plane; he spends most of his days drinking coffee and swearing at the computer -- sometimes at the same time.

25 comments on “X-Plane 10.30 Is Out the Door”

  2. Congrats on a job well done.

    Now do you think you could give us a date for 10.11,.. maybe?

    🙂

  3. Nice!
    Any idea when the distance visibility / scenery to the horizon will be ….

    …on the horizon? 🙂

  4. Just downloaded 10.30 and sitting at Tacoma Seattle Airport with no city buildings!

    Any idea why. The download went well.

  5. “In the meantime, aircraft designers can start using the new GPS.”
    Hi Ben, any information on SDK changes for the new GPS for aircraft designers?

        1. Ah, I understand. In that case my answer is:

          No. There is no new information, and no SDK work has been done in this area. I do not know when such work will be done either.

  8. After some of the above “when will 10.40 come” and “what comes next”-type posts let me just give you 100% positive feedback…

    I am really happy 10.30 is out now and I think its a good step to mature X-Plane 10. So, what do we have now?
    – a really cool, real world style GPS system for GA aircraft
    – tremenedoulsy improved cloud effects! As I mostly fly big jet the new GPS is not so much for me, but this one is great! Love to climb or dexcent through thin cirrostratus layers – the impression of really diving into the cloud is really great.
    – the nasty “white band of fog” is gone for the high altitude guys. This is are really good improvement, but honestly I think approaching this bug took a bit too long (X-Plane will celebrate its 3rd birthday this winter!)
    – Finally the “Lego-brick” airports start coming! This a big one for everyone I think. I looked at Laminar’s new Frankfurt Germany (EDDF) from the gateway and its just stunning what quality will be shipped with the price of X-Plane. It looks really, really good. Not as professional as a “Ultimate”, “Mega” or “What-so-ever” series airport, but really good. And this coverage will continue and other worldwide airports will join the club – for free!

    Thank you everyone at Laminar for this great update! Keep up the good work and love what you do! Special thanks go to Philipp and master coder and blog writer Ben!

  9. Nice to see that 10.30 is final now! Is there at this point any broad plan going forward? It’s okay if there aren’t specifics, I’m just wondering what the general plan is from here on out.

  10. how do i change the gps to the new 430? i want to change it for the as350 dreamfoil and the bk 117

    thanks

  11. Hi Ben

    Just a side question.
    Would like to order a new set of DVD’s with XP10… Have the very fist release..
    When order now would I get the 10.30 version ? or do you still have a stock of old DVD version to sell first ??

    Henrik
    (Denmark)

  12. Did something get missed? 😉

    alex@desktop:~/X-Plane 10$ file *\ Installer*
    X-Plane 10 Installer Linux: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, BuildID[sha1]=b68b04868c24eae6c343900dc867f49f3175c991, not stripped

    seems there are x64 binaries for everything except the installer.

  13. Since the last update with the new installer Getting Crashes, Taxiways at a lot of airports Missing now, was all fine in the last betas, sent crash reports and filed bug report.Basically unusable after update with new installer. Updated with old installer first and had no issues, then saw the installer was updated and did it again, now messed up.

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