Its extensive world scenery database includes over 20,000 real world airports, taxiways, directional airport lighting, accurate terrain worldwide, scenery night lighting, paged scenery tiles, sloping runways, as well as correct runway placement and markings. In addition, the program features built-in support for multiple displays, as well as a number of networking options that allow it to communicate with GPS receivers, external autopilot, external flight dynamics modules or other FlightGear instances.
Key features include flight dynamics models, accurate and extensive world scenery database, detailed and accurate sky model, open and flexible aircraft modeling system, as well as moderate hardware requirements. It also known as the world’s best free flight simulator that runs on Linux/UNIX, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. Last edited by JN4OldSchool 30th September 2006 at 03:46 PM.FlightGear v3.4 is out, available for Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Gentoo, or for Solaris, FreeBSD and Mac OSXįlightGear is an open source and cross-platform cooperative flight simulator software. This is all under construction and I have many plans. I then hopped into my RV7 for a couple flyby shots. The second shot is on taxiway left in front of the outdoor airplane park. It is late now, but I will edit this tomorrow (if I have time) to show some screenshots.Įdit: The first shot is my Jenny that is under construction in front of my hanger at 97fl. I am teaching myself blender as I am going along. I also need to create a custom 3D cockpit. It is flyable but I need some serious work on the tail feathers and wingtips. I have a ton of static aircreaft and other. dsf file, and built my own custom hanger. I paved the runway, flattened the terrain which was a real chore digging into the. The real thing is just over a mile from my house. I have been spending all my time between building my own private airstrip and building a JN-4 Jenny from scratch. Last edited by JN4OldSchool 28th September 2006 at 01:35 PM. They have a whole screenshot thread there. For some more realistic screenshots of X-Plane see the thread in this section or just visit the X-Plane forum. As it was just screwing around and a work in progress the plane isnt painted and has no physical motors, just thrust points, but it can boogie! I can hit outerspace in seconds and it is fairly stable in level flight and can cross the Florida penisula in the blink of an eye. Something you thought you'd never see, the Hughes HK1 Spruce Goose with the piston engines removed and 8 1,000,000 pound thrust rockets attached in their place. Upgrades through the 8 versions will always be free downloads so you can get it later.Įdit: Here is a screenshot of some of the fun you can have. 8.5 is going to be the cat's meow, but it has a lot of problems at this point. One word of warning though, X-plane 8.5 rc1 is out. Also go to and be sure to check out their forum. It is not as "polished" looking as MSFS, but it is THE MOST realistic flight characteristics of ANY sim and is a world unto itself. The best part about X-Plane is the configurability and the options for not only creating your own aircraft but scenery too. I bought the full monty global scenery for $70 and it was worth every penny. You get 6 minutes of stick time in a limited san francisco (I believe) area but you can play as many times as you wish. Do yourself a favor and download the FREE X-Plane demo.