[b]South Carolina, 8th September 2016[/b] - Laminar Research, creator of the X-Plane flight simulator franchise, has announced the latest update to X-Plane 10 to version 10.50. Over the years it has always been the policy of Laminar Research to continually improve X-Plane, providing the most realistic flight simulation available, with flight modeling so accurate that has been adopted by numerous commercial aviation organizations. Now with the release of the latest update, X-Plane 10.50, Laminar has raised desktop flight simulation to a new level of realism. [b]Major features of the 10.50 update include:[/b] [list] [*]Hundreds of new detailed 3-D airports now with auto-placed static parked aircraft. [*]New U.S. city autogen for more realistic scenery with buildings scaled to their accurate heights. [*]Greatly improved Baron & King Air aircraft and 3-D cockpits. [*]Global winds aloft files. [*]Better AI (artificial intelligence) with virtual aircraft traffic. [*]Added support for auto configuration of the Control Pad and Xavion Mobile Apps. [*]Improved appearance of clouds. [*]Better randomization of AI parking spots. [*]Drastic improvement in the speed of the UI. [*]Ability to steer certain guided weapon systems with the joystick. [*]Better animated effects (prop, etc) in replay mode. [*]Frame rate and other performance improvements. [*]Numerous bug fixes. [/list] The updates in version 10.50 are too numerous to list, but they can be found in their entirety on the X-Plane website at: [url=http://www.x-plane.com/?article=x-plane-10-50-release-notes]http://www.x-plane.com/?article=x-plane-10-50-release-notes[/url]