With the latest updates to X-Plane for iPad, you can now purchase the Apollo lunar lander game inside X-Plane.
A quick note: if you lose your preferences (and thus X-Plane thinks you have not already bought Apollo) you will not be charged a second time if you click “buy it” again. When you go to repurchase Apollo, X-Plane will notice that you already have bought the upgrade and will simply re-enable the update.
Hopefully in our next patch we will make it clear in the UI that there is no double-purchase. The upgrade to Apollo is a “persistent” in-app purchase – once you buy it, you own it forever, as you would expect. (And because the iTunes store has a copy of your receipt, you don’t lose it even if your iPad or computer’s hard drive gets wiped out.)
Also, the latest update should fix crashes on iPads that were running for a while. X-Plane was very close to the memory limit so iPads that had been running for a while wouldn’t have enough free RAM for the sim. The new patch is a little bit leaner to work around this problem.
Hi Ben, please confirm this process;
I recently purchased x-plane apollo ‘iPad’ and it is no longer present & requesting I re-purchase.
Can you confirm the correct process to re-enable this add on without incurring extra charge? I cannot find the iPad version of the add on in appstore, and X-Plane says it will charge me a further £2.99.
Regards & thanks
Hi Richard,
I’ve sent you an email to sort this out in detail; I want to make sure you don’t buy the product twice.
The short version is this: Apollo for the iPad is _not_ an application; it is an in-app purchase for the ipad. You can only buy it inside X-Plane. If you re-buy it _inside_ x-plane you are not charged again.
There is (confusingly) a separate iphone stand-alone Apollo game – that’s what you have found, and you should _not_ buy that. If you have already bought the apollo feature inside X-plane for ipad, you need to go into the apollo tab of the x-plane for ipad app and re-buy it there.