Check out an authentic flight simulator for Mac. Access environments generated with an accurate time of day model, as well as the correctly placed sun, moon, stars, and planets for the specified time and date. Fly the 1903 Wright Flyer, ornithopters, a 747 and A320, various military jets, etc.
FlightGear is an open-source, cross-platform, flight simulator. The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, for the development and pursuit of other interesting flight simulation ideas, and as an end-user application.
v2.4 [Aug 23, 2011]
- A new head-up display (HUD) system
- An in-sim moving map
- ATC/ATIS improvements
- EICAS instruments are available on a selected number of aircraft
- Improved autopilots
- TCAS, works with AI and multiplayer aircraft, provides aural warnings for conflicting traffic and is also capable of driving a realistic traffic display. AI aircraft also respond to TCAS alerts and take evasive action
- Updates to the KLN89 GPS.
- Tankers now refuel with any callsign, and can enable/disable refueling in flight.AI system
- A standalone AI flightplan generator program
- Approaching aircraft now follow realistic approach trajectories
- Ballistic objects can be slaved to any AI object
- Improved AI ballistics behavior
- More communication / interaction between AI aircraft and ground. Support for multiple frequencies for AI/ATC interaction.
- Speed-up for AI traffic initialization by means of an aircraft usage statistics collection mechanismAI Traffic
- General and commercial aviation traffic at LOWI airport
- Malaysian Airways / Kuala Lumpur based traffic
- Traffic for Adria (Croatia)Flight dynamics
- A new MIL-STD Turbulence model has been added to the JSBSim flight dynamics simulation engineEnvironment
- A local weather system to simulate physically correct local weather phenomena
- Discard of outdated METAR weather information sources and improved METAR parsing
- New Fog layers with limited elevation
- Scenery can be downloaded and installed on-the-fly via an in-sim TerraSync interface
- Specific multiplayer pilots can be selectively ignoredInterface
- Complete overhaul of the autopilot system
- New digital controllers
- Flexible use of input and output values
- Support for mathematical expressions
- Usable for generic numeric data processing as a "property rule" system
- Better integration of separate weather systems
- New support of draggable 3d objects like throttle-levers
- Support for textures generated from VNC clients
- Unified runway selection code that is shared between user controlled and AI controlled aircraft
- New HLA interface for distributed simulations
- New on demand loading of Nasal modules
- New support for external (aka real) Garmin 400/500 WAAS UnitsVisual effects
- Various graphics improvements using shaders, including 3D urban effects, reflections, water, rock textures, lightmaps, skydome scattering
- Easy GUI-based access to a host of stereoscopic 3D rendering effects
- Panoramic distortion
- Persistent contrails
- New standalone 2D-Panel rendering utilityBug fixes
- Fixed METAR live weather (http requests from NOAA)
- Fixed many sources of the infamous NaN errors
- Improved stability by fixing many segmentation faults, deadlocks and memory leaks
- Improved placement of random objects
- Fixed inconsistencies with scenery tile scheduling
- The replay system now works again as advertised
- The ground proximity warning system (GPWS) works reliably now
- Runway lights also working with ATI graphics cards now (rendering option to disable point-sprites) Many, many more. See our bugtracker for an extensive listHighlighted new and improved aircraft
- A new and highly detailed IAR-80 (a Romanian-produced WW2 fighter)
- A new highly detailed Piper Cub
- Airbus A320 Family (318/319/320/321)
- An improved P-51D, completely remodeled and containing improved flight dynamics
- Boeing 717
- Boeing 757-200
- Bombardier CRJ700 Series (700/900/1000)
- Bombardier CRJ200
- Douglas A-4F Skyhawk
- Improvements to the Boeing 787
- MiG-15bis
- PZL-Mielec M18B "Dromader"
- Short S.23 Empire flying boat
- The Boeing 737NG Series
- The Boeing 747-400 and 777-200 have received lots of improvements
- The Douglas DC-8 Series
- The Eurocopter EC130 B4 Helicopter
- Tyre smoke effects on many aircraft
- Zeppelin LZ 121 Nordstern
