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FlightGear 2019.1. Learn to fly for (almost) real with this impressive open-source flight simulator. By Mike Williams.
= advertisement =-FlightGear is a free, Open Source flight simulator in development since 1996 and features many additional planes, helicopters and scenery updates you can download.FlightGear has the advantage of being around a long time and is probably the best, most developed free flight simulator you're going to find out there. It's better than many shareware sims. You can fly numerous planes, helicopters and download hundreds of additional models for free.Being Open Source you will find that many commercial games are based on older versions of FlightGear including Earth Flight Sim, Flight Pro Sim, Flight Simulator Plus, Pro Flight Simulator, Real Flight Simulator and Virtual Pilot 3D. So, if you're considering a shareware commercial flight simulator, we recommend you try this one first.The goal of the project has always been a sophisticated and Open Source flight simulator for research or academic environments, pilot training and of course, fun, realistic, and challenging desktop flight simulator for anyone to enjoy.Version History for FlightGear. Please note we welcome all comments and believe in free speech, but we do have some baic ground rules. Disqus has a built-in filter for words, attachments, and links that is out of our control. We moderate multiple times a day to approve comments but we also get a lot of spam.
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FlightGear downloads release-x.y.zContains stable code. UnstableContains nightly builds from git HEAD. No guarantee. SceneryGlobalsModels.tgz and SharedObjects.tgz - The latest scenemodels export for scenery developers.More at fgdata-ng-boilerplate.git.tarA tarball from fgdata next generation without checkouts, so it is jut the.git folder.Download this if you are having trouble with the initial git clone of fgdata due to timeouts.After downloading, unpack this using mkdir datatar xvf./fgdata-ng-boilerplate.git.targit pullgit checkout -.and you should have an up-to-date working copy of fgdata. Source: README.md, updated 2016-01-20 Other Useful Business Software.
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