The FlightGear flight simulator project is an open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight simulator development project. It also simulates space flight in Earth's orbit.
FlightGear's flight dynamics engine (JSBSim) is used in a 2015 NASA benchmark to judge new simulation code to the standards of the space industry. FlightGear is used professionally for research and development, as well as non-professionally.
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Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlightGear https://www.flightgear.org/category/tours/ https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/tags.php?tag=flightgear (multi-page articles) FlightGear wiki
As of 2020 there are over 700 aircraft and spacecraft projects available with 1 click download and install from the sim's launcher, more are available at 3rd party hangars and github repositories for different craft projects.
FlightGear 2020.3.8 and later has automatically downloaded 3d models of buildings, roads, cities etc. , based on Open StreetMap (OSM) data and automatic generation, for the whole world.
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi, other OSes
FlightGear might be a bit more popular than Google Earth Flight Simulator. We know about 1 link to it since March 2021 and only 1 link to Google Earth Flight Simulator. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I'm sure you already know, but Google Earth's actually had a really basic 'flight simulator' built in for a while now: https://support.google.com/earth/answer/148089?hl=en In gaming or technical terms, it's not much good as a game per se (or at least, wasn't when I last tried many years ago) but is still quite fun when playing around familiar areas, getting an idea of various flight times. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago
Check out https://flightgear.org or https://geo-fs.com. These are completely free to use. Source: 5 months ago
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