Video tutorials
Quite a number of FlightGear Videos can be viewed online. Some of them introduce you to various aspects of FlightGear: From the installation of aircraft to very advanced features:
Installation
- Download & install aircraft
- How to Download Additional Aircraft (Windows)
- Download & install scenery and airports
- Download & install liveries
Flying a plane
For more information, see the Pilot portal.
Preparations
Take off
- IFR Cross Country Flight Tutorial Part 1
- IFR Cross Country Flight Tutorial Part 2
- IFR Cross Country Flight Tutorial Part 3
- IFR Cross Country Flight Tutorial Part 4
Landing
- How to make a soft landing
- How to brake after landing
- Boeing 777-200ER Landing
- Another Boeing 777-200ER Landing
- How to land // perform a visual landing
- Perform a crosswind landing
- ILS Landing!
- How to perform an ILS landing
Flying a helicopter
Also see the very informative and not-too-long Flying the helicopter manual.
Aircraft carrier
FlightGear has several Aircraft carrier models, and offers an AI scenario of the USS Nimitz or the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower just off the San Francisco Bay.
- Starting up on Nimitz (Windows)
- How to take off from an aircraft carrier
- How to land on an aircraft carrier
- Get To The Hangar On Nimitz
Multiplayer
With the multiplayer function of FlightGear you are able to see other pilots and vice-versa.
Atlas
The Atlas program lets FlightGear users display a real-time "moving-map" of their flight. Atlas is an independent software project, distributed under the same free (GPL) software license as FlightGear.
Specific aircraft
- 787 Startup
- Boeing 777-200ER Autopilot basics
- Concorde Tutorial part 1
- Concorde Tutorial part 2
- CONCORDE in 2 minutes!
- Tu154B: Part One - "The Cockpit" vimeo youtube
- Tu154B: Part Two - "Starting the Engines" vimeo youtube
- Tu154B: Part Three - "Preparing for Flight" vimeo youtube