Using SimPlates X Ultra SimPlates X Ultra is almost entirely menu driven. Clickable buttons on all screens enable users to find information easily and quickly. Only the search feature requires keyboard input, which is to be expected.

An especially handy feature is the display of mouse-clickable national flags for the more commonly accessed countries such as Australia, Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. Dauntless says the whole collection of 70,000 charts consumes 100 gigabytes of storage space, but they are not included with the program. Instead, the program accesses the plates as requested by the program user, and it downloads from a central storage facility. When a user requests approach charts for New York's Kennedy International Airport, for example, only those charts that were specifically requested are downloaded onto the computer. As with other Internet downloads, those downloaded charts remain on the user's computer unless specifically deleted after use.

Dauntless cautions explicitly that these charts are not to be used in any aspect of real-world aviation. After all, these are outdated charts.

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Any pilot needing charts for real-world aviation should look elsewhere. Technical Matters Dauntless' SimPlates X Ultra can be used with any home flight-simulation program because it is a stand-alone program. System requirements are not specified. It worked perfectly on my Windows 7 system. Downloading and installing each took a few minutes. Connection with Microsoft.Net is required because it facilitates the downloading of these charts. This system will be automatically installed by the Dauntless installation program.

Then SimPlates X Ultra automatically uses this system to access the charts -- users do not need to log on to anything. An end user license agreement is required for.Net but I did not see an EULA required for SimPlates. The charts provided by SimPlates are outdated government-issued charts according to the Dauntless website. A subsequent subscription is not required because there is no need for updating charts that are sold as outdated in the first place. Technical support is through forums on the Dauntless website, and a link is provided in the program. Readers with technical questions not answered in this review should inquire of Dauntless because they are best able to answer such questions. A link for this purpose is provided on the description page of the FlightSim.Com Pilot Shop.

PURCHASE FEATURES Delivery Method Instant Download Installation program Yes License key Yes Copyright acknowledgment Yes Documents included None Uninstall program included Yes TECHNICAL FEATURES Simulator Version Any Operating System XP, Vista, Win 7 Disk Space Unknown Special Settings Not applicable Frame Rates Not applicable Tech Support Forums Price $39.99US About Dauntless Dauntless sells numerous products for real-world aviation. Install Windows 7 For Free more. It emphasizes repeatedly in its SimPlates product description, on its website, and in the product itself that SimPlates is not for real-world aviation. Its prior version, is also available from the FlightSim.Com Pilot Shop. Summary I agree with the Dauntless claim that its SimPlates X Ultra is 'the single best investment you can make to enhance the fun, challenge, and realism of your sim experience.' I know of no other source of so many authentic aviation charts that can be accesses so easily and quickly and for such a low price.

The menu-driven program is easy to use, and the storing of these charts in a central location relieves users of the burdens of storing so many files on their hard drive or other storage media. The only downside I can think of is that the charts are outdated, but that is of little consequence regarding home flight simulation. Any flight simmer who likes to simulate instrument flight realistically and enjoys doing so at various airports around the world will surely find SimPlates X Ultra very useful. Bill Stack is author of several books about flight simulation, a regular author in flight-sim magazines, and a contributor to Flight Sim Com. His website is.