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-{{caution|This launcher the launcher does not work at all on OS X Yosemite (10.10) or later and is unmaintained and may not work properly even on older OSes.}}
+{{caution|This launcher does not work at all on OS X Yosemite (10.10) or later. See the '''Removal''' section.}}
-{{Note|Update 03/2015: Please also see [[Integrated Qt5 Launcher]] for an integrated FlightGear GUI front-end based on Qt5, available in FlightGear 3.5+}}
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-'''FlightGear Mac OS X Launcher''' is a graphical front end for [[FlightGear]], included in official Mac binaries of [[FlightGear 0.9.10]], [[FlightGear 1.0|1.0.0]], [[Flightgear 1.9.0|1.9.0]], and [[FlightGear 2.0.0|2.0.0]] onwards. The launcher allows one to choose options more easily than with the command line.
+The '''FlightGear Mac OS X Launcher''' was a graphical front end for [[FlightGear]] which was included in official Mac releases from [[FlightGear 0.9.10]] to 3.2. The launcher allowed one to choose options more easily than with the command line.
-Unfortunately, due to certain required libraries being removed, the launcher does not work on OS X Yosemite (10.10) and above (see {{issue|1521}}).  Instead, users will have to use the command line (Terminal.app) to start FlightGear.  For example:
+== Removal ==
+The launcher is not compatible with OS X Yosemite (10.10) and later because some libraries required for it to work were removed by Apple (see {{issue|1521}}). For this reason, it was replaced by the [[FlightGear Qt launcher]] in FlightGear 3.4 and later.
+Users who have OS X Yosemite or later, but who are still on an older version of FlightGear, can either:
+* use the command line (<tt>Terminal.app</tt>) to start the simulator. Open it and issue the following commands:
 <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">cd /Applications/FlightGear.app/Contents/Resources
 ./fgfs.sh
 </syntaxhighlight>
-A FlightGear user has created a simple FlightGear launcher for OS X Yosemite (see [http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=24781#p226332 Temporary FlightGear Launcher for OS X Yosemite]).  The other alternatives are [[Yaflight]] and [[FGX]], however, both are unmaintained and may have issues as well.
+* use an alternative FlightGear launcher. A user has created a simple one for OS X (see {{forumref |title=Temporary FlightGear Launcher for OS X Yosemite|t=24781|f=21}}); other alternatives are [[Yaflight]] and [[FGX]], however, both are unmaintained and may have issues as well.
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