FlightGear v2.8.0 is available !

[MdMax]

Hi all !

FlightGear v2.8.0 has been released and is available here:
http://www.flightgear.org/news/fligh...-8-0-released/

Some of the major changes include:

AI Traffic

Improved aircraft models and textures.

Flight dynamics

FlightGear has been synced with the JSBSim project.

Environment

Region-specific terrain textures are used for Europe and Hawaii. Now towns in Europe look different from towns in the USA.
Cities and towns now look more populated due to random 3D buildings, complete with lighting at night.
Scenery looks more realistic due to improved placement of random objects, buildings and trees.
Airport signs are now rendered in 3D, with support for double-sided signs. Full apt.dat 850 syntax is supported.
You can now select between summer and winter scenery in-sim.

Instruments & HUDs

A new flexible, 2D rendering system designed for complex instruments such as CDUs, MFDs, EICAS, HUDs and other glass cockpit interfaces. Canvas allows aircraft designers to easily build complex instruments without needing specialized C++ code.

Interface

Support for translation of the main menu into languages other than English.
A Nasal API is available allowing access to Navigation and route-manager data.

Highlighted new and improved aircraft

Airwave Xtreme 150: complete new (JSBSim) flight dynamics, new model, advanced pilot animations.
Cessna 337G Skymaster

Project infrastructure

Various improvements to our scenery database make it easier than ever to add, delete or update objects to the FlightGear world.
The new aircraft download page allows you to easily find quality aircraft, by filtering on status indications.

Visual effects

Improved simulation of atmospheric light scattering with terrain haze.
An experimental renderer, named after the famous painter Rembrandt, is included for testing purposes. The Rembrandt rendered supports multiple light sources (landing lights, instrument lights), real-time shadows and ambient occlusion across aircraft and scenery for a much more realistic visual experience.

Other

Additional joysticks and rudder pedals are supported out-of-the-box:
InterLink Elite
Micorosft Xbox 360 Controller
Qware USB
Saitek Cyborg X (F.L.Y. 5)
Saitek Pro Flight Cessna Yoke
Saitek Pro Flight Cessna Trim Wheel
Saitek Pro Flight Cessna Rudder Pedals
Speedlink Defender
A French partial translation of The FlightGear Manual is now available.

Happy flying !

[mgh]

In a triumph of hope over experience, I downloaded and installed FlightGear on Win7 in C:\FlightGear.

On clicking the desktop icon I got the attached window. Note that the Next button is greyed out and I could find no way the change that. Clicking the Defaults button followed by Reset gave the message "fgrun.exe has stopped working" with Windows searching for a solution.
Needless to say I've uninstalled it, yet again!

[MdMax]

Clicking the Defaults button followed by Reset gave the message "fgrun.exe has stopped working" with Windows searching for a solution.
Needless to say I've uninstalled it, yet again!

Sorry, I'm not using Windows, so I can't tell you how it has to be installed or launched in Windows. I'm just surprised by your picture. Is windows now accepting pathnames with slashes (C:/) and also with backslashes (C:\) ? More help is available here:

http://wiki.flightgear.org/Frequently_asked_questions
http://www.flightgear.org/forums/vie...p?f=17&t=16546

[mgh]

I installed it using the Windows installer provided by FlighGear. I accepted all the defaults offered, except to change the install folder to C:\FlightGear.

The screen shot is a FlightGear window and nothing to do with Windows.

[MdMax]

change the install folder to C:\FlightGear.

On your screenshot, it's "C:/FlightGear/".

[mgh]

On your screenshot, it's "C:/FlightGear/".

that's a FlightGear screen shot and FlightGear is installed in C:/FlightGear. Obviuosly I checked that before posting.

Clearly FlightGear doesn't even know where it's just installed itself!

[mgh]

It's broken then?

[MdMax]

The 1st field on this window is for the FlightGear executable file. In your bin folder, you should find something like fgfs.exe:
http://wiki.flightgear.org/FlightGear_Launch_Control

[mgh]

From your link:

" If FGRun was installed with a binary package, either under Windows or Linux, these paths are normally initialized by the installation procedure."

As I said FlightGear doesn't know where its installer put it. It is broken!

[MdMax]

OK, then follow the steps described here:
http://wiki.flightgear.org/New_to_Fl...ing_on_Windows

Happy flying.