It is intended to be run alongside Project3000 extra airport scenery. , based on Open StreetMap (OSM) data and automatic generation, for the whole planet. Currently the next branch has a lot of work, and features of interest to users like experimental VR support.Ģ020.3.7 added automatic downloading of 3d models of buildings, roads, cities etc. It also releases development preview builds (none currently), and builds in the next branch (nightlies) leading to the next LTS. The FlightGear project releases LTS builds (for most people). It's used professionally for research and development, as well as non-professionally. The rest are available through 3rd party hangars or from development repositories.

Its flight dynamics engine ( JSBSim) is used in a 2015 NASA benchmark to judge new simulation code to the standards of the space industry.įlightGear 2020.3 has over 700 aircraft and spacecraft projects, that can be filtered by advancement level in art/flight dynamics model (FDM)/systems, in the launcher browser. FlightGear is available for free from the downloads page.įlightGear is an atmospheric and orbital flight simulator used in aerospace research and industry. It also simulates space flight in Earth's orbit. FlightGear Flight Simulator 2020.3 LTS (Long Term Support), often shortened to FlightGear 2020.3, or FGFS2020, is a free, open source multi-platform flight simulator in the FlightGear Flight Simulator series developed by.

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