

The latest 2.10 version was released on February 17th, 2013. Several more versions with major improvements were released through the years. In 2008, version 1.9.0 of FlightGear included a major change from PLIB to OpenSceneGraph, widely expanding FlightGear 's graphical capabilities and among others adding multi-screen support. 2007 marked a formal transition out of beta development with the release of version 1.0.0. By 2005, the maturity of software lead to more widespread reviews, and increased popularity. Later in the decade, the rate of final public releases slowed, but had larger amounts of content. By 2001, the team was releasing new beta versions regularly. The first working binaries using OpenGL came out in 1997.Įnthusiastic development of newer versions for several years resulted in progressively more stable and advanced versions. FlightGear incorporated other open-source resources, including the LaRCsim flight model from NASA, and freely available elevation data. Development of an OpenGL based version was spearheaded by Curtis Olson starting in 1997.

The flight simulator was created using custom 3D graphics code. He proposed a new flight simulator developed by volunteers over the internet. įlightGear started as an online proposal in 1996 by David Murr. They are not endorsed by the FlightGear project.
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The commercial products Flight Pro Sim, Pro Flight Simulator, and others, have been found to be direct copies of old versions of FlightGear. FlightGear code is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, thus being free software.
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It has specific builds for a variety of operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, IRIX, and Solaris. The project had its first release in 1997 and continued in development, the most recent release being version 2.10 in February 2013.

ĭavid Murr started the project on April 8, 1996. A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 climbing out of London Gatwick in FlightGear 2.5.0.ĭavid Murr, Curt Olson, Michael Basler, Eric Korpela Ģ.10 / February 17, 2013 36 days ago ( )įlightGear Flight Simulator (often shortened to FlightGear or FGFS) is a free, open source multi-platform flight simulator developed by the FlightGear project since 1997.
