Linux.com: FlightGear Takes Off
Dec 05, 2006, 19:45 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Joe Barr)
"FlightGear is a multiplatform, GPLed flight simulator. It is
sophisticated, realistic, and extensible. You can choose to fly
more than 100 different aircraft, ranging from a Sopwith Camel to a
UFO, you can take off and land from thousands of airports, and you
can fly over virtually any terrain in the world. After 10 years of
development, it has suddenly become a very hot item. How hot? You
may have seen it used recently on prime time TV and not realized
it. It was used in an episode of Fox TV's legal drama Justice to
prove pilot error in the fatal crash of a private plane.
"For most of us, the best way to install FlightGear is to use
the version included in our distribution of choice. In Ubuntu Edgy,
that's 0.9.10-2, and that's what I have used while writing this
article. You can also grab a tarball, or check out the latest from
CVS, and build it from scratch, but beware, it may require a
serious effort to build..."
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