The FlightGear flight simulator

  • Authors:
  • Alexander R. Perry

  • Affiliations:
  • PAMurray, San Diego, CA

  • Venue:
  • ATEC '04 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The open source flight simulator FlightGear is developed from contributions by many talented people around the world. The main focus is a desire to 'do things right' and to minimize short cuts. FlightGear has become more configurable and flexible in recent years making for a huge improvement in the user's overall experience. This overview discusses the project, recent advances, some of the new opportunities and newer applications.