

As for Riviere, thank you for helping to make the X-Plane freeware community to what it is today. If you’re interested in seeing what Riviere has to offer, check out his list of file submissions here. His coverage of almost all of Airbus, Embraer, Bombardier and Dassault line of Aircraft spanning three generations of X-Plane arguably makes him one of X-Plane’s most prolific, disruptive and giving developer of all.

While his releases are nowhere near the level of sophistication of freeware projects like the Zibo 737, or even Ksgy’s LET - L410 Turbolet, Christian Riviere’s commendable effort to bring a platform of freeware planes for users to download as “filler” products has what got us to reward his aircraft work in this edition of No Money Mondays. All his submissions dating back to the early days of X-Plane 8 comes to a whopping over Four Hundred and Ninety Thousand downloads. org, his other recent aircraft easily passes over 1,000 downloads. His A380 amassed over 120k downloads on the. It appears that Riviere hasn’t made or released any Boeing airliners. The pinnacle of his contribution so far is the release of the A380. Then moving to regional jets like the E-Jets before the A320 series.

He then embarked on small business jets like the Falcon jets and western propliners like the ATR. Riviere’s contribution to X-Plane stems way back in X-Plane 8 according to his list of file uploads, he began producing renditions of Russian airliners, the first aircraft he made was an Ilyushin IL86 in Siberia Airlines colours for X-Plane version 8.50 on February 7th, 2007. Users in return are gifted with a decent recreation of popular airliners like the A380, A350, A320, E-Jets and props like the Dash-8. Not the most public profile in the world of X-Plane with each upload of his creations, Riviere in his french-y tone, distinctively describes his product on ’s download repository in short and stout sentences that delivers the point across. Almost half a million X-Planers have downloaded his works in some form ever since XP8. Meet Christian Riviere, or just by his username “Riviere”. It's not a name people are most familiar with, but his contribution to X-Plane resulted in a significantly expanded library of freeware airliners.
