1 # Software In The Loop (HITL) plugin for X-Plane 11
3 **Hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) simulation**, is a technique that is used in the development and testing of complex real-time embedded systems.
5 **X-Plane** is a flight simulation engine series developed and published by Laminar Research https://www.x-plane.com/
7 **INAV-X-Plane-HITL** is plugin for **X-Plane** for testing and developing flight controllers with **INAV flight controller firmware**
9 https://github.com/iNavFlight/inav.
11 HITL technique can be used to test features during development. Please check page above for installation instructions.