![]() Scenery includes lakes, rivers, roads, railroads, cities, towns, land cover, and nice scenery night lighting with ground lighting concentrated in urban areas (based on real maps) and even headlights visible on major highways. The world scenery fits on 3 DVD's - pretty detailed coverage of the entire world with accurate terrain based on the most recently released SRTM terrain data. Runways come with markings, lighting, taxiways, some sloped with variable elevation, the latter a feature missing from most commercial titles. Over 20,000 real world airports are included in the full scenery set. Quite impressive detail that most players probably won't appreciate.įlightgear comes with an extensive and accurate database of world scenery. Another is based on an FDM originally written by people at NASA. ![]() The integrated flight dynamics model is optimized for implementing plausibly behaving aircraft without requiring heaps of hard-to-acquire aerodynamic test data. Having no full time developers and being of such high quality is a testament to the dedication and organisation of it's development team.įlightgear has a pluggable flight dynamics model with 3 primary options, giving the enthusiast an opportunity to find a flight model that they feel is most accurate and/or fun. Whilst it does fall short in a few departments when compared to commercial flight sims, in others it is unequalled. ![]() The scope of the Flightgear project is, as you might expect for a game 11 years in the making, nothing short of impressive. It is a stellar example of enthusiasts coming together to create something for the community. Distributed under the GPL, Flightgear is one of the first major Free Software games and has become a flight simulator that rivals it's commercial counterparts. After more than 11 years of development, Flightgear 1.0 has arrived.įlightgear can be played on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, as well as other *nix platforms including FreeBSD, Solaris, and IRIX. ![]()
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