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It goes beyond just a visual upgrade, however. Austin Meyers has already teased new weather and new volumetric clouds for their product and I have high hopes that these are every bit the visual feast that we’ve seen some other products such as DCS World and Microsoft Flight Simulator. Five years ago it was already behind the curve as other sims started to use volumetric cloud technology and now its needing a dramatic overhaul. X-Plane 11’s default clouds and weather system is definitely showing its age these days. Let’s have a look! Better clouds and weather Aerobask’s Phenom 300 flying through default X-Plane weather. X-Plane 11 is and has been a brilliant sim but it does have some issues too and its starting to look and feel dated in a number of ways so I wanted to write about some of the features and elements that I want to hear about from the next generation.

Is this X-Plane 12? Probably! But since it has no name and the X-Plane team have been calling it “next generation” I’m just going to call it X-Plane NG for now.

There’s considerable excitement and a lot of guesses still remaining on just what the new sim will be offering, how it will be changing things up from the previous generation, and even what the sim is planning to call itself. Tomorrow, Laminar Research and the X-Plane team are going to be showing off more of their next generation X-Plane product at Flight Sim Expo 2021.