Founded in 1997, FlightGear is developed by a worldwide group of volunteers, brought together by a shared ambition to create the most realistic flight simulator possible that is free to use, modify and distribute. FlightGear is used all over the world by desktop flight simulator enthusiasts, for research in universities and for interactive exhibits in museums.
FlightGear features more than 400 aircraft, a worldwide scenery database, a multi-player environment, detailed sky modelling, a flexible and open aircraft modelling system, varied networking options, multiple display support, a powerful scripting language and an open architecture. Best of all, being open-source, the simulator is owned by the community and everyone is encouraged to contribute.
Features
- Free and Open
- Cross Platform (Mac, *nix, Windows)
- Complete World Scenery
- Highly Configurable
- Multiscreen (current standing record: 10 on a single PC)
- Active Community
License
GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)User Reviews
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I can't use FlightGear Simulator. It may not be fair to the program but my joystick cannot control the aircraft. All of the inputs seem to work but the speed of the rolls, dives, climbs, etc make it impossible to control. The joystick worked perfectly well on an older edition and it has no problems with other programs. Sorry for the low rating but that's the way it goes.
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Can't fly with keyboard, commands should be elastic but they are plastic, when pressing some arrow the "virtual joystick" stays in it's position.
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FlightGear is a simulator, that is filled with selfish toxic people, which only want to argue with everyone for everything. I started using it in 2014 and I used it till 2019. Graphics can look decent if you put all type of graphical goodies on max, but the performance will be a complete joke. Even an known people, used this simulator, like Vlad A. are amused from the low performance of the older versions, like 3.6 [ which never takeoff]. On base of the fact that Octal450 was the best airplane developer over there and he left this simulator had lost the best developer ever had. Based on the fact that FlightGear is filled with code I wonder why nobody cares for the users experience, nobody cares for the p3erformance and the graphics in this simulator. FlightGear is not a good community as well, there a bunch of developers at their forum act like everyone else are always wrong nvm what anyone says. Thorsten, the magnificient developer of the sapce shuttle has the ability to say whatever he wants, he likes to twist the sense and meaning of all people posting there, taking parts from their words and twisting it to meet his own agenda. The simulator does not have any users any longer, those people flying at the multiplayer map are mostly developers, also there is 2-3 people sitting on a place [ airport] and not moving for hours per deylight, even for a few days.
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I just download the app but not working on my iMac Catalina as Operating system, very disappointed
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It is very concerning that a) this application recommends that you disable your antivirus software before installing and B) Windows 10 defender flags up 2 severe security threats for Trojan:Script/Cloxer.A!cl trojan. A user should never have to (or be asked) to disable their AV before installing an executable downloaded from the net, this makes no sense whatsoever. Whether this is false-positive or not, I clearly have no idea but I have to trust my AV as my first defence. The author should look into this.