FgFuse

A screenshot of a running FlightGear and nautilus browsing the prop radix

FgFuse is a fuse filesystem for linux that lets you browse, read and write the properties of FligthGear from a mount point. Communication between FgFuse and FlightGear is done via a socket connection.

It is written in python and needs the python-fuse package installed.

Download

You can download the script from here

Usage

First of all you need to launch FlightGear with the --telnet option. i.e.

fgfs --telnet=10000

where 10000 is the telnet port to listen to. After launched flightgear, launch fgfuse like this example:

python fgFuse.py 127.0.0.1 10000 /tmp/fg/

where

• 127.0.0.1 is the address of the pc running FlightGear
• 10000 is the telent port which FlightGear session is listening to.
• /tmp/fg/ is the empty directory that will be mounted

when finished unmount the folder with this command:

fusermount -u /tmp/fg/

Troubleshootings

• The script needs to connect to FlightGear via telnet, if you launch the script too soon, it could be possible that FlightGear hasn't opened the socket yet.
• The script is at a early stage of life, so expect errors to occur.