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	About FlightGear
FlightGear is a flight-simulator created by an international group of volunteers, and released as free, open-source GPL software. It has been used for academic research, education, and for fun. FlightGear comes with a set of illustrated documentation, notably "The Manual," which is included in the installation package. This wiki provides additional documentation on both user and development topics. I am looking for … Help on using FlightGear How to contribute something to FlightGear Information about aircraft developed for FlightGear

News

Tip The macOS and Windows nightly builds are now running OSG 3.6.5, so people can hopefully start testing WS3.0 ^[1]

FlightGear Newsletter December 2022 (archive)

December 09, 2022: FlightGear 2020.3.18 "RC" is released.

November 22, 2022: FlightGear 2020.3.17 is released.

October 20, 2022: FlightGear 2020.3.16 is released.

October 12, 2022: FlightGear 2020.3.15 is released.

September 27, 2022: FlightGear 2020.3.14 is released.


	Did you know …
...that FlightGear is used in several FAA approved simulators? ...that you can simulate random system failures realistically? ...that anyone can edit FlightGear source and contribute to the project? ...that the whole city of Barcelona, Spain is available in 3D models? ...that there are 3,429 articles on this wiki?

Using
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Developing
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Placing objects • Editing terrain
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How the FlightGear project works

Wiki
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Highlight

View over Innsbruck, Austria. FlightGear 2020.3.8 has been released with 3d buildings, roads, and other objects based on Open Street Map (OSM) data for the entire world. See 1st world-build of OSM2City.

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