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.
v3.2 [Sep 20, 2014]
Major enhancements in this release
Aircraft Modeling
A Failure Management Framework for FlightGear has been added
The JSBSim flight dynamics model now has support for ground effects like bumpiness, solid-ground detection and adjusting of friction factors. Additionally, bogey type contact points sink in non-solid surfaces, making it no longer possible to ride on water.
YASim now has versioning support. The YASim FDM now checks a version tag in it’s configuration file to allow improvements to the YASim FDM without risking breaking older aircraft.
Additional aircraft have started adopting the Canvas navigation display that was introduced with FlightGear 3.0.
Graphics
Improved rendering of VASI, PAPI, runway and taxiway lights.
Orbital rendering using textures from the NASA Visible Earth project
Additions to the Atmospheric Light Scattering (ALS) rendering include:
an experimental framework to render cloud shadows on the ground (requires Advanced Weather)
a substantial extension of cloud layer visibility using impostor techniques to 150 km
a new agriculture effect allowing to render fields without tiling artifacts
a new forest effect to simulate managed forest, varying tree size by patch
sparkle and fog effect on runway lights
much improved visual appearance of rock faces
Usability
An experimental aircraft package manager allows the download of new aircraft, and changing the current aircraft in-sim.
A new internal web server (aka httpd) based on mongoose httpd has been added. It supports various AJAX requests, a screenshot server, a property tree browser, and a web-based moving map and much more.
The integrated Map dialog now uses an azimuthal equidistant projection, for better representation in polar regions and across the International Date Line.
Windows users are now able to use the scroll wheel in dialog lists
Canvas System
Improvements to Canvas, FlightGear’s scriptable 2D rendering system include
Better performance
MapStructure-based layers can now be customized and styled
Support for mouse button and modifiers
CanvasImage now supports the http:// protocol for dynamically retrieving raster images.
An experimental Map dialog using Canvas is available under the Equipment menu.
Canvas Layout Engine
Nasal Scripting
A new fully-interactive Nasal GUI console based on Canvas has been added: Interactive Nasal Console
the hard-coded flight path history subsystem which samples aircraft position is now exposed via Nasal.
Documentation
Nasal documentation is now included,
Highlighted new and improved aircraft
Boeing 757-200: Improved autopilot and additional systems, like hydraulics and pneumatic. The aircraft comes with two engine options.
Cessna 337G Skymaster: Tuned autopilot and improved instrument stack.
Mainair Flash 2 Alpha: Simulated weightshift-control and new wing model.
North American P-51D: All new highly accurate external model based on factory blueprints.
Tupolev Tu-154B2: version 3.1
Other
A text-to-speech system based on flite hts_engine has been implemented, which is used for ATIS and other messages.
Improved loading behaviour for AI/MP aircraft
Bug fixes
A serious bug was found late in the release causing large numbers of crashes. Fixing this delayed he release, but had a nice side-effect of improving performance on some systems that were previously CPU-limited.
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