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The FlightGear Flight Simulator

Alexander R. Perry

PAMurray, San Diego, CA

alex.perry@flightgear.org

Figure 1: Pilot's view from a Cessna 172 making a poor approach for landing at San Francisco International Airport. The ``Time of Day'' pop up menu is partially visible, with seven quick selects and an additional button for typing in the time. Seven consecutive screen dumps, from a wide screen display, have been combined to demonstrate the simulator's lighting model
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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.





alex.perry@flightgear.org