¶ Requirements
This installation guide is only available for X-Plane on macOS
You can find a new alternative Installation guide here
¶ Installing Altitude
- To begin the installation process, make sure that X-Plane is not running.
- Firstly, download the Altitude for macOS from the IVAO website
- After downloading is finished, unzip the files to a suitable location.
You should see the zip containing folders below:
- On the unziped folder look for your correct version of X-Plane:
- Then, navigate to your X-Plane installation folder, which is generally located at:
~/Library/Applications/Steam/steamapps/common/X-Plane11
or for XP12:
~/Library/Applications/Steam/steamapps/common/X-Plane12
Please note that the folder location may vary depending on your installation.
- Move both “ivao_pilot” and “IVAO_CSL” folders into X-Plane11's
Rescources/pluginsfolder as follows:
- You should have a similar folder layout with the image below:
- Execute the
IVAO Altitude vX.XX.X.dmgand move the PilotUI to your Applications folder.
- Finally, run the GStreamer installer, named
gstreamer-1.0-X.XX.X-universal.pkgand follow the installation instructions.
If GStreamer is not installed you can get it from the following link
¶ Permissions on X-Plane
On first installation you will have to enable the microphone permission to X-Plane. This shall be done only once.
To do this, make sure to open the terminal with full disk access and execute the following commands (copy the command and press enter):
1. Access apple permissions database:
sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db
2. Depending on your macOS version:
- For macOS earlier than 14 (Sonoma):
insert into access values ('kTCCServiceMicrophone', 'com.laminar-research.X-Plane', 0, 2, 3, 1, null, null, null, 'UNUSED', null, null, 1621244686);
.quit;
- For macOS 14 or later (Sonoma):
insert into access values ('kTCCServiceMicrophone', 'com.laminar-research.X-Plane', 0, 2, 3, 1, null, null, null, 'UNUSED', null, null, 1621244686, null, null, 'UNUSED', 0);
.quit;
¶ (Optional) If you have your X-Plane on an external drive
If you have your X-Plane installation on an external drive such as an external SSD, you will have to establish a link between the X-Plane folder. To make this, exectue the following in a terminall with full-disk access:
«myname»will be replaced automatically by the name of your Mac
«Session»will be replaced automatically by the name of your session account
iMac-of-myname:~ Session$ cd /Volumes/SSDname/X-Plane\ 12/
iMac-of-myname:X-Plane 12 Session$ cd X-Plane.app/Contents/Frameworks
iMac-of-myname:Frameworks Session$ ln -s /Library/Frameworks/GStreamer.framework
iMac-de-myname:Frameworks
¶ Installing X-CSL Package
- X-CSL package allows you to see other multiplayer aircraft precisely.
- To install the X-CSL, first, run the
X-CSL-Updater-1.3.1.dmgand move X-CSL-Updater to your Applications folder.
- Run the X-CSL Updater, press Update and your X-CSLs are installed.
¶ Running the X-Plane 11 and Altitude
- After the installations are complete, run the X-Plane 11.
- If you receive an error similar to below:
- Press OK and go to your System Preferences → Security & Privacy → General tab and allow mac.xpl.
- After allowing mac.xpl, close and reopen your simulator.
- When spawned at a gate, hold the control key and open the PilotUI from your Applications folder
- Press Open to the dialog below.
- And you are ready to go!
- Please note that you have to allow “mac.xpl” and “Pilot.UI” only once. macOS will not ask for permissions for the next runs of PilotUI.
- You can learn all about Altitude from our Altitude manual
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