FlightGear Mac OS X Launcher

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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.

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+

FlightGear Mac OS X Launcher is a graphical front end for FlightGear, included in official Mac binaries of FlightGear 0.9.10, 1.0.0, 1.9.0, and 2.0.0 onwards. The launcher allows 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 ticket #1521). Instead, users will have to use the command line (Terminal.app) to start FlightGear. For example:

cd /Applications/FlightGear.app/Contents/Resources
./fgfs.sh

A FlightGear user has created a simple FlightGear launcher for OS X Yosemite (see Temporary FlightGear Launcher for OS X Yosemite). The other alternatives are Yaflight and FGX, however, both are unmaintained and may have issues as well.