FlightGear

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FlightGear
Genre	Flight simulator
Developers	Wolfram Kuss, Vassilii Khachaturov, Norman Vine, Jon S. Berndt, Cameron Moore,Durk Talsma, Curtis Olson, Bernie Bright, Tony Peden, and Alex Perry
Code license	GPL
Media license	GPL
Latest release	2.0.0 / 1.0.1
Release date	February 25th, 2010 / October 27th, 2008
P. language	C++, C
Libraries	PLIB

FlightGear is a 3D flight simulation game. The entire game is licensed under the GNU General Public License.^[1][2] As of 2011-07-26, the latest version of the game is version 2.0.0 released on February 25^th, 2010.^[3] The latest version of Flightgear's World Scenery(that is, Flightgear's scenery and terrain data)^[4] is version 1.0.1, released on October 27^th, 2008.^[5] It is also sold on 3 DVDs. It is written in the C++ ^[6] and C ^[7] programming languages.

The project was started in 1996, with its first release in 1997.

Contents 1 Development 1.1 Developers 2 History 3 Distribution 4 References 5 External links

Development

FlightGear used a simulation engine called SimGear in addition to a terrain engine called TerraGear. All of which needs PLIB in order to build.^[8][9]

Developers

The development team consists of ten members.^[10]

They are:

• Alex Perry
• Tony Peden
• Bernie Bright
• Curtis Olson
• Durk Talsma
• Cameron Moore
• Jon S. Berndt
• Norman Vine
• Vassilii Khachaturov
• Wolfram Kuss

History

Development started in 1996. The first release happened on July 17^th, 1997. Rather than developing their own simulation models, they opted to NASA's flight models instead. They transitioned out of beta in 2008.^[11] See FlightGear release history for more details.

Butterfly Media has repackaged the game and sold it as Advanced Flight Simulator 2010 though the legality is somewhat questionable though not necessarily illegal but generally considered in bad faith.

Distribution

The FlightGear project sells CDs/DVDs on their website.^[12]

References

1. ↑ FlightGear's copyright file at Debian Packages
2. ↑ FlightGear's base copyright file at Debian Packages
3. ↑ Download page for Flightgear's source code on Flightgear.org
4. ↑ World Scenery on the Flightgear wiki
5. ↑ FlightGear World Scenery
6. ↑ FlightGear sourceforge.net project page
7. ↑ Flightgear FAQ
8. ↑ SimGear page on FlightGear wiki accessed on September 13^th, 2009
9. ↑ TearGear page on FlightGear wiki accessed on September 14^th, 2009
10. ↑ Sourceforge.net members list for the FlightGear project
11. ↑ FlightGear wiki page on FlightGear itself accessed on September 11^th, 2009.
12. ↑ FlightGear store

External links

• FlightGear homepage