If you are an airplanes fanatic, then you will really enjoy this amazing game. GlightGear is an excellent and very advanced flight simulator where you will be able to practice all your aeronautical skills and push your inner pilot into the open. This great application will let you to fly under complex and real meteorological conditions, and face all difficulties that a real pilot has to manage when is flying a real plane.
FlightGear has many different models of aircrafts, helicopters, light aircrafts, and even UFO's. The sceneries included in this amazing game are real cities recreated with a great accuracy. For instance, there are thousands of real airports programmed with hundreds of details like signaling, lights, control tower, weather conditions, etc.
In order to enjoy this outstanding simulator, first you will have to choose your aircraft type, then select a scenery where you want to play, and after that, tick many options for your game, for example, you can choose what time would like to flight, or change the graphic resolution, etc. Flight Gear will also let you to download other aircrafts and sceneries from Internet.
Remember that this application is a "real flight simulator", not a simple flying 3D game. So you will have to read the manual and all instructions to experiment very real exciting flights on your PC, because, to be a pilot of an aircraft is not as easy as it seems.
v3.0 [Jan 31, 2014]
Major enhancements in this release:
Aircraft Modeling
- All glider models have now Total Energy compensated variometers.
Environment Rendering
- Sea color is more realistic, using a a global sea map is used to render shallow ocean a different color.
- Improved random building textures
- Atmospheric Light Scattering (ALS) improvements including
- significant work on a more natural appearance of a low haze or fog layer which includes now altitude variations
- atmosphere rendering beyond the lowest fog layer takes now actual aloft visibility into account, leading to a blurred horizon
- the horizon line is now rendered with angular variations, simulating different vertical extent of air layers far away in the atmosphere
- the wake shader rendering the waves generated by a ship has been ported to ALS
Performance
- Terrain loading times improved by deferring loading of objects within scenery.
Usability
- Tab key is used to cycle mouse modes: aircraft control, view control, idle
- TerraSync is pre-configured and works as is without user configuration required
- FGCom, the multiplayer voice communications client is now integrated within FlightGear
Internationalization
- Italian translation of the FlightGear Manual.
Scenery
- Scenery 2.0 is now available, using improved elevation, road and terrain data.
- Updated navigation data
- Regional texture definitions have been added for Scandinavia, Corsica and Ascension Island.
Canvas System
FlightGear's fully scriptable 2D rendering system now includes improved APIs for creating maps and navigation displays amongst many other improvements. People no longer need to have programming experience to add a working ND to their aircraft, it can now be all done by copying and pasting 30 lines of text and customizing a few properties. The so called MapStructure back-end handles efficient updating of all ND layers transparently.
Nasal Scripting
- Faster complex spacial searches
- HTTP bindings
- A new Nasal library has been added for implementing specialised soaring instruments. The library currently supports Total Energy compensated varios as well as Netto, Super Netto (aka Relative) and Speed Command variometers.
Documentation
- PDF/LaTeX docs of the internals of the Nasal engine (C code) have been added to $FG_ROOT/Docs.
- An Italian translation of the FlightGear Manual is now available.
Highlighted new and improved aircraft
- Robin DR400 Dauphin 180ch
- CAP10C
- Boeing 707
- North American P-51D
- Boeing 777
Other
- Additional joysticks and rudder pedals are supported out-of-the-box:
- Logitech Flight System G940 (joystick, pedals and throttle)
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