FlightGear Newsletter January 2010

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In the hangar

Liveries

For over a year, realistic (meaning: they have to exist, have existed, or will exist on the corresponding aircraft with the corresponding airline) FlightGear liveries have been available from this website. Due to the increasing amount of visitors and liveries, the website is moved to a new server, resulting in much faster downloads. The serverswitch was a good oppurtunity to re-design the website and its internal structure. It used to be a simple list, now it exists of a fully functional database, improving the use- and maintainablity significantly. The database can be searched by aircraft, airline or author.

Everyone is free to upload his/her liveries. What to do is explained at this page.

Visit the new livery database (link to come)

Aircraft

Boeing 767-300 near its primary release

See Boeing 767-300 for the main article about this subject.

Exterior view with open cargo and front passenger doors

Exterior view with gear up

For a while the 767-300 has been a slow moving project, due to Isaías V. Preste temporarily leaving the forum and all FlightGear works. Liam has yet continued on from where Prestes left off, given a complete overhall to the old FDM, added plenty of new features and started animations. Thanks to the whole FlightGear community for providing some nice liveries, sounds, and other assistance to questions, With luck it should be submitted to CVS before the next release of FlightGear!

Boeing 737-100 updates

See Boeing 737-100 for the main article about this subject.

Outside view with open doors

Cockpit view from pilot seat

Since October we have had the 737-100 by helijah in CVS. The aircraft has now been further improved. Mike (aka D-SKY1) is building the autopilot, updating the 3D models, and the following changes were implemented:

• FDM refined
• Working instruments in front panel
• Doors (front and back) open with the keys D and Shift-D
• Front door also extends stairs
• Detailed overhead panel (not yet wired)
• Detailed pedestal (not yet wired)
• Autopilot incl. ILS approach (partly wired) (actual screenshot of the glareshield)
• Several liveries available via menu:
  • Lufthansa
  • Canadian
  • Continental
  • Qatar
  • Swiss Air
  • Air France
  • Alitalia
  • KLM
  • Kuwait Airways
  • Boeing Prototype-Livery

Scenery Corner

Manila

The Airport of Manila, Philippines (RPLL) has been improved. Beside the Terminals 1 and 2, Terminal 3 is now built. The Tower is redesigned to be closer to the original. Many shared models on the ground has been added and like always all buildings are illuminated at night and ambient occlusion is added to all new textures..

San Francisco International Airport

See San Francisco International Airport for the main article about this subject.

With the upcoming release in mind, FlightGear's main airport has been populated with more buildings than ever before. Dock your plane at one of the many gates, follow the airtrain as it moves from station to station, land your helicopter in the famous parkingarea hole or simply enjoy the visuals on final.

Community News

FlightGear Wiki

On 4 January 2010, the 900th article was added to the wiki! Back in May 2009, the 700th article was welcomed, which means an average of 1 article is created each day. A big "thank you" to all those who helped to extend and improve the wiki over the past years!

• More wiki stats can be found here
• Read the article at Howto: Add details to your airport‎‎.