Scenery

The Isère region in France.

Scenery tiles

Scenery is the landscape in FlightGear (or any other simulator). The default installation of FlightGear comes with a limited set of scenery (near the default airport and the airports used by Cessna 172P tutorials). 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.

TerraSync

See TerraSync for the main article about this subject.

FlightGear's built-in TerraSync automatically downloads the newest version of sceneries while the simulator is running.

Scenery database

See FlightGear Scenery Database for the main article about this subject.

FlightGear has an active scenery database, which tracks all models and objects in the scenery.

To browse the information of models in your area, see Map - FlightGear Scenemodels.

World Scenery

See World Scenery for the main article about this subject.

World Scenery is the name of the corresponding Terrain and Scenery data for FlightGear. The current experimental version is World Scenery 3.0.

Related content

• Installing scenery
• Constructing scenery
• Landmark Wish List
• World Scenery

Recommended Scenery

• Suggested custom scenery - links to recent (2024) scenery projects
• 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 repositories at https://gitorious.org for scenery (Frankfurt, Singapore).
• Kansas Custom Scenery
• Ohio Custom Scenery
• Australia Custom Scenery

External links

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