FlightGear
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| Maintainer | volunteer developers |
| developer | originally David Murr, Curt Olson, Michael Basler, Eric Korpela |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| Current version | 2019.1.1 (March 14, 2019) |
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Linux , Solaris , Windows , Mac OS X , Mac OS 9 , FreeBSD , IRIX |
| programming language | C ++ , Nasal (especially aircraft systems) |
| category | Flight simulator |
| License | GPL ( Free Software ) |
| German speaking | Yes |
| www.flightgear.org | |
FlightGear is an open source project with the aim of creating a free, expandable and realistic flight simulator .
development
The idea of the FlightGear project arose from dissatisfaction with commercial flight simulators such as Microsoft Flight Simulator and X-Plane . For the FlightGear developers, these were too limited and not sufficiently expandable, as the source code was not available for them as proprietary software or the license of these flight simulators did not allow or make major changes impossible.
FlightGear is free software and is under the GNU General Public License . It is constantly being developed by a large number of developers, volunteers and interested parties around the world. FlightGear uses Nasal as an embedded scripting language , with which parts of the GUI , flight characteristics and flight instruments can be controlled. Several flight dynamics models such as JSBSim and Yasim are available, which are used to simulate the flight characteristics of missiles.
FlightGear displays celestial bodies such as the sun, the moon as well as stars and planets, taking precise account of the time and date - and of course depending on the position. This also applies to the seasons, so that in summer it is 24 hours north of the Arctic Circle . In addition, the correctly positioned sun illuminates the moon as in reality, so that depending on the date, time and place, the moon can be seen as a full, half or new moon.
Additional software for FlightGear
In addition to the actual flight simulator, there are other programs and projects for FlightGear , such as
- Atlas - Follow a flight in FlightGear on a map (in real time) or display the FlightGear scenery as a 2D map on the computer screen
- FlightGear Flight Planner - planning flights
- FlightGear Scenery Designer - Change and edit the FlightGear scenery data
- Taxidraw - creation of accurate taxiway routes
- TerraGear - Creation of the FlightGear scenery from SRTM altitude data and vector data, such as the VMap
- OpenRadar - simulation of aeronautical radio in multiplayer mode
- ATC-Pie - Simulated radar surveillance. Similarity to OpenRadar.
Conventional 3D modeling tools can be used to create 3D models such as airplanes and buildings .
Products derived from FlightGear
The commercial flight simulator FlightProSim is based almost entirely on FlightGear version 1.9.1. Apart from the changed name and the fact that there is a price for this product, the developers of FlightGear have found no differences between FlightGear 1.9.1 and FlightProSim . The providers of FlightProSim have neither contributed to the open source project FlightGear , nor have they paid the developers of FlightGear any money to use the product. This is a legal process under the GNU GPL v2 license. The developers of FlightGear remain with this license because free use is part of the basic idea of the open source project.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ FlightGear Flight Simulator - sophisticated, professional, open-source. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Nasal scripting language - FlightGear wiki. Retrieved October 2, 2019 .
- ↑ ATC-pie - FlightGear wiki. Accessed August 25, 2019 .
- ↑ FlightGear Wiki:. Retrieved December 8, 2010 .
- ↑ FlightGear Flight Pro Sim Statement (v1.4a) :. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 29, 2010 ; accessed on October 2, 2019 .