Flight Gear

[Distorted Humor]

Have not used it yet, but there been a lot of chicken littles on the fligh sim board, just as a example, this is a open source project with a ton of planes, and the screen shots look decent.


http://www.flightgear.org/

just as a FYI

[angels355]

Give us some screen shots. As I understand it there's the stock scenery that comes w/ the original download. then there's 13 gb's (?) of photorealistic scenery you can also download.

I believe you can change simulator engines.

Running it on linux or windows?

[Alexander]

FlightGear isn't bad, it is slow as FSX. There's a new version, 1.9.0, it uses OpenSceneGraph, but I don't know how to use it.

Graphics: B+
Aircraft: A-
Scenery: B+
Weather: A
Traffic: C+
Performance: C-

[Distorted Humor]

FlightGear isn't bad, it is slow as FSX. There's a new version, 1.9.0, it uses OpenSceneGraph, but I don't know how to use it.

Graphics: B+
Aircraft: A-
Scenery: B+
Weather: A
Traffic: C+
Performance: C-

Thanks for that review, in that case it might be my Linux Flight sim, as I never had much of a performace problem with FSX.

[bdenny19]

I tried using this program, but I dont understand the problem that I am having. I run an HP a1130n, not an incredibly super powerful computer, but its 64+3500 processor and ATi Radeon 200Xpress runs FS2004 pretty decently.

FlightGear only gets 4FPS and I have no idea as to why. Everything driver-wise is working right, but I can't get any improvement...Whats the deal, I like this open-source idea, but I can't get it work right.


Bill