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FFGo
Developed by Florent Rougon
Initial release 1.0.0 (Aug 21, 2015)
Latest release 1.8.1 (Dec 31, 2015)
Written in Python 3
OS Linux, Windows, OS X
Development status Active (as of Jan 2016)
Type Graphical launcher for FlightGear
License WTFPL version 2
Website

FFGo is a graphical launcher for FlightGear, and a fork of FGo!. It vastly improves on FGo! by fixing bugs and adding a host of new features.

Features

One thing that distinguishes FFGo from other FlightGear launchers is the text window allowing one to write any (possibly advanced) command line options that will be passed to FlightGear. This is similar, but more convenient and powerful, to editing the .fgfsrc configuration file. The main difference in power compared to editing .fgfsrc or using FGo! comes from FFGo's use of CondConfigParser to process the user's configuration.

In addition to this, FFGo offers:

  • an easy setup (Preferences dialog);
  • convenient selection of aircraft and startup airport or carrier;
  • possibility to choose between identically-named aircrafts based on which directory they are stored in (using tooltips in the aircraft list);
  • easy selection of startup runway or parking position, offering startup locations from apt.dat if there is no groundnet-defined parking position for the selected airport;
  • detailed airport, runway, helipad and parking tooltips. Airport tooltips show things such as airport type (land airport, seaplane base or heliport), latitude, longitude, elevation, number of land runways, water runways, helipads, magnetic variation... Runway/helipad tooltips show runway type, length and width, surface type, magnetic as well as true heading, etc. Parking tooltips show similar information as runway tooltips, plus maximum aircraft radius, reserved airline codes... (note: The MagneticField program from GeographicLib is needed for magnetic data)
  • easy consulting of METAR data for the nearest station relatively to the selected airport (if any);
  • a powerful Airport Finder dialog allowing one to easily find airports using various criteria: distance to a chosen, “reference airport”; number of land runways, water runways, or helipads; length of the longest or shortest runway in the airport, etc. The table of results displays, among others, the distance and bearings between the reference airport and each “result airport”. It can be sorted according to any column with a simple click on the column header.
  • easy selection of one or more scenarios, allowing one to browse the description of each available scenario;
  • realtime preview of the arguments that would be passed to fgfs (the FlightGear executable) if the “Run FG” button were to be pressed;
  • the possibility to copy to the clipboard a shell command that is equivalent to what FFGo would do if the “Run FG” button were to be pressed;
  • easy viewing and saving of FlightGear output (log);
  • automatic FFGo + FlightGear log saving and rotating.

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