Scenery

The Isère region in France.

Scenery tiles

Scenery is the landscape in FlightGear (or any other simulator). The "mint" or unchanged just-downloaded FlightGear comes with 2 square degrees of scenery near San Francisco, California. The rest of the world is available via download. Details and accuracy vary from place to place.

The scenery data is released as World Scenery collections, available through download in 10x10 degree chunks from the the FlightGear website. Please note that the packages there are only updated very infrequently, so instead you can use TerraSync to download up-to-date scenery as you fly by.

Some high-quality third-party scenery has also been released for FlightGear. However, because anyone may contribute models or terrain data to the official FlightGear scenery, third-party scenery add-ons are not as common as in other flight simulator projects.

Status

By the end of this year (2015), the FlightGear Project's hosting for the scenemodels database and website and the TerraSync repository will no longer be available. As a result, the FlightGear Project is searching for a replacement, even just a temporary one. The technical requirements are roughly these:

• A PostgreSQL database (with the PostGIS extension) of approximately 40 GB, with capacity to expand (this is for the scenemodels database).
• An Apache webserver, PHP, access to the database and the usual toolkit for hosting the scenemodels website
• An SVN server with 140+ GB for the TerraSync repository.
• Enough bandwith to serve the data.
• One or more reverse proxies serving TerraSync requests (not much storage required, just bandwidth).

If you can provide the above, are able to provide help, or have any serious ideas for a replacement, please get in touch via the forum topic or the mailing list topic

— Torsten (Nov 9th, 2015). Scenemodels and terrasync are going down.

Sadly, our scenery generation process is in a state of transition right now, so it's not easy/quick (possible?) to do a full world rebuild to reflect an updated apt.dat file. — Curtis Olson (Dec 8th, 2015). Re: [Flightgear-devel] New apt.dat on the X-Plane Scenery Gateway. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

Martin, our scenery builder and infrastructure provider for many years has decided to leave the project, there will be no new scenery release for a while. — Torsten Dreyer (Dec 8th, 2015). Re: [Flightgear-devel] New apt.dat on the X-Plane Scenery Gateway. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

can we start with a funding the operation of the new home for scenemodels, terrasync and the scenery generation tools (approx 3.000$/year), please? — Torsten (Nov 26th, 2015). Re: FlightGear Development Push. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

I think trying to come up with 3k/year for infrastructure costs would be a good goal. It will help FG immediately, and it'll serve as a test case - if it's hard to come up with that kind of money, then funding development salaries will be impossible anyway. If this turns out to be easy... well, worth further discussion perhaps. — Thorsten (Dec 2nd, 2015). Re: FlightGear Development Push. (powered by Instant-Cquotes)

Related content

• Installing scenery
• Constructing scenery
• Landmark Wish List
• Next Generation Scenery

Recommended Scenery

• Developed Airports - airports with at least one non-generic airport building placed
• Suggested Airports - airports ranked by scenery quality

Scenery Projects

• Brest
• FlightGear NL
• Germany
• Custom France Scenery
• Project Hong Kong
• Project Venezuela
• papillon81's git repository for scenery (Frankfurt, Singapore)

External links

• Scenery download page
• Webtools to add/edit/update unitary and massive import of shared model positions