This is mostly due in part to 11.30 and its subsequent updates (11.31, 11.32 etc.) and the work on Vulkan. The most pressing issue is making X-Plane 11.30 as stable as possible through additional updates, which will happen over the next few weeks. Vulkan. Ben Supnik, lead developer of X-Plane, is continuing to work on re-writing X-Plane to ... paulo ricardo - mega sao paulo x-plane 11 Tristan A really good scenery but can be perfected in certain aspects imo: - SBGR is missing the main international terminal (the terminal is a construction site in the scenery), which makes this giant airport a hastle to find a fitting gate if your are flying a long haul flight with a big aircraft. Laminar Research has officially released X-Plane 11.50, introducing the Vulkan and Metal rendering engine to the platform. X-Plane 11.50 is a major update that completely rewrites the rendering engine to use modern rendering APIs: Vulkan (on Windows and Linux systems) and Metal (on Mac). Before version 11.50, X-Plane used OpenGL exclusively. You realize that this is the X-Plane 10 demo, and that X-Plane 10 i s a commercial product that costs US$80. For that price, you receive 10 double-sided DVD's worth of scenery data (75GB) and a sizable number of initial aircraft to fly.