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Free Software Magazine: Flying High with FlightGear

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 8, 2006

“FlightGear is a top notch and highly accurate free software
flight simulator. The software has no kill or be killed situations.
Don;t expect arcade like dogfights and precision bombing. Such
features are not included. However, with a large range of planes to
choose from and with most of the world covered by accurate maps
expect a realistic experience as near to a holodeck as software
only can allow.

“FlightGear is platform agnostic, the simulator has been
compiled and run under Linux, Windows, BSDUNIX, SGIIRIX, Sun-OS,
and Macintosh. A flying experience makes a pleasant change of pace
for me…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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