FlightGear- Opensource flight simulator

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Did you ever want to fly a plane yourself, but lacked the money or ability to do so? Are you a real pilot looking to improve your skills without having to take off? Do you want to try some dangerous maneuvers without risking your life? Or do you just want to have fun with a more serious game without any violence? If any of these questions apply to you, PC flight simulators are just for you.

The FlightGear flight simulator  is an open-source software, multi-platform, it is primarily aimed at civilian flight simulation. It should be appropriate for simulating general aviation as well as civilian aircraft.

-Screenshots from FlightGear website-

The FlightGear support multiple range of platforms :

• Linux (any distribution and platform),

• Windows NT/2000/XP (Intel/AMD platform),

• Windows 95/98/ME,

• BSD UNIX,

• Sun-OS,

• Macintosh.

-Screenshots from FlightGear website-

At present, there is no other known flight simulator – commercial or free – supporting such a broad range of platforms.

If you want to install Flightgear on Ubuntu :

sudo apt-get install flightgear

If you want to install the software in other platforms :

http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/binary.shtml

If you want to add more airplans see here :

http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/aircraft/

Links :

• http://www.flightgear.org

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