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== Community news ==
== Community news ==
=== FlightGear on youtube ===
=== FlightGear on youtube ===
12 Days of Flight Tips - by [http://www.youtube.com/user/osjcag oscar]
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbB5Sn_ag-A Day 1 - FG 2.4 Map]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLB7jui1U5c Day 2 - Useful Keys]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1aNBV7JBIs Day 3 - Animated Jetways]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz1c8nuY62U Day 4 - Approach & Landing tips!]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeFpvAR6sqg Day 5 - Wiki & Newsletter]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HjkFHatYMI Day 6 - Rendering Options]
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LcZ93Q33D4 Day 7 - Cockpit Instruments]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rITkJyTb5-Q Day 8 - Brake After Landing]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLCXwuWvDGQ Day 9 - Virtual Airlines]
* Day 10 - ?
* Day 11 - ?
* Day 12 - ?
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=== New tutorials and screencasts ===
=== New tutorials and screencasts ===
=== Forum news ===
=== Forum news ===

Revision as of 16:53, 4 January 2012

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Welcome to the FlightGear Newsletter!
Please help us write the next edition!
Enjoy reading the latest edition!


We would like to emphasize that the monthly newsletter can not live without the contributions of FlightGear users and developers. Everyone with a wiki account (free to register) can edit the newsletter and every contribution is welcome. So if you know about any FlightGear related news or projects such as for example updated scenery or aircraft, please do feel invited to add such news to the newsletter.

Development news

Interview with a contributor (NAME)

In each edition we have an interview with a contributor. Suggestions for possible questions are available on interview questions, you are invited to come up with new questions and interview ideas obviously! Anyone is free to write an interview (with him-/herself or others) for next month's newsletter! If you'd like to help interview a contributor or get interviewed, please do consider adding yourself to the list of interview volunteers! To keep this going and less awkward, we are currently trying to come up with the convention that former interviewees become next month's interviewers.

  • How long have you been involved in FlightGear?
  • What are your major interests in FlightGear?
  • What project are you working on right now?
  • What do you plan on doing in the future?
  • Are you happy with the way the FlightGear project is going?
  • What do you enjoy most about developing for FlightGear?
  • Are there any "hidden features" you have worked on in FlightGear that new users may miss?
  • What advice can you give to new developers who want to get started on their first aircraft/new feature/Nasal script?

More questions are being collected here: Interview questions.

Stay tuned for next month's interview, featuring FlightGear contributor XXXXXXXX

Snapshot releases

Every now and then, easy-to-install development snapshots are created (usually, twice montlhy). These snapshos depict a recent state of the development version of FlightGear. By using them users can test out features that will be included in the upcoming release. Testers are encouraged to file bugs at the issue tracker.

The snapshot can be download via the links at the bottom of this page: http://www.flightgear.org/download/. Updates and feedback can be found at the forum.

Nasal for newbies

New software tools and projects

FlightGear addons and mods

In the hangar

All the way back in May 2011, we addopted a new status-rating system for aircraft. So far, only a few have actually been rated, as can be seen in the list 'hockenberry' set up at Google Docs. If you're an aircraft developer and your aircraft is/are not on the list, please consider rating their status. All you'll need to know/do is described at Formalizing Aircraft Status. If you'd just like to get started contributing to FlightGear, this would also seem like an excellent way to get started.

New aircraft

Updated aircraft

Liveries

Scenery corner

Dutch windturbines

The Netherlands have ca. 1800 windturbines at the moment. Since this month, 624 of them are in FlightGear!

Adding them is relatively easy. Since we have a generic windturbine model available (Models/Power/windturbine.xml), it's just a matter of finding the GPS coordinates. Some of the larger windparks list locations on their websites. Other windturbines can be positioned based on the FlightGear scenery (with CORINE data, for more accuracy), or via satellite imagery. A website from the Dutch government has a map that shows the locations of all windturbine(park)s.

Locations for windturbines and other shared objects can be easily submitted via the new submission form, that we mentioned in last month's newsletter.

Airports

Aircraft of the month

Airport of the month

Screenshot of the month

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Cessna c172p near San Francisco flying over the ocean.

Suggested flights

Aircraft reviews

Wiki updates

New articles

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Most popular newsletters

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Community news

FlightGear on youtube

12 Days of Flight Tips - by oscar

New tutorials and screencasts

Forum news

Multiplayer

Virtual airlines

FlightGear events

Useful links

And finally ...

Contributing

One of the regular thoughts expressed on the FlightGear forums is "I'd like to contribute but I don't know how to program, and I don't have the time". Unfortunately, there is a common mis-conception that contributing requires programming and lots of free time. In fact, there are a huge range of ways to contribute to the project without needing to write code or spending days working on something.

For ideas on starting to contribute to FlightGear, you may want to check out: Volunteer.

Call for volunteers

  • The OpenRadar project is looking for a new maintainer.
  • The FGFSPM (FlightGear Package Manager) is looking for a new maintainer.

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