Overview

Very realistic flight simulator that has over 20 years worth of development time

Shows realistic flight experiences 

Latest and updated release.

As a free extra bonus you will get over 600 bonus aircraft's with support up to 20 000 real airports worldwide

Comes with complete (over 200 pages) user manual, you also get a step by step video guides and lessons for beginners.

You have the freedom to fly anywhere anytime at night or day time

Please note, this is not a Microsoft product, it is not compatible with any FSX add-ons.

Features

You can use just a keyboard and mouse, but it's recommend that you use a joystick or a game pad, pedals are also compatible.

Connect to the multiplayer server and fly with your friends.

Scenery night lighting with ground lighting concentrated in urban areas based on a real map.

Realistic night VFR flying with the ability to spot towns and cities .

Directional airport lighting that smoothly changes intensity as your relative view direction changes.

Very realistic scenery includes all rivers, lakes, towns, cities, roads, etc.

It can help you to pass your navigation exams, good for IFR practice.

Real 3D sound.

Taxiways available for many larger airports.

Natural sloping runways based on NASA terrain elevation data.

Automatically downloads current weather conditions from the internet as you fly.

Very large selection of aircraft ready to fly.

Multy Display Support.

Free lifetime updates.

Compatible with Windows & MAC OS X (All versions )

You can use any USB game pad or joystick.

And much more! You will not be disappointed

Accurate and Detailed Sky Model

FlightGear implements extremely accurate time of day modeling with correctly placed sun, moon, stars, and planets for the specified time and date. 

FlightGear can track the current computer clock time in order to correctly place the sun, moon, stars, etc. in their current and proper place relative to the earth. 

If it’s dawn in Sydney right now, it’s dawn in the sim right now when you locate yourself in virtual Sydney. 

The sun, moon, stars, and planets all follow their correct courses through the sky. 

This modeling also correctly takes into account seasonal effects so you have 24 hour days north of the arctic circle in the summer, etc. 

We also illuminate the correctly placed moon with the correctly placed sun to get the correct phase of the moon for the current time/date, just like in real life.

 Extensive and Accurate World Scenery Data Base

Over 20,000 real world airports included in the full scenery set.

Correct runway markings and placement, correct runway and approach lighting.

Taxiways available for many larger airports (even including the green center line lights when appropriate.)

Sloping runways (runways change elevation like they usually do in real life.)

Directional airport lighting that smoothly changes intensity as your relative view direction changes.

World scenery fits on 3 DVD’s. (I’m not sure that’s a feature or a problem!) But it means we have pretty detailed coverage of the entire world.

Accurate terrain worldwide, based on the most recently released SRTM terrain data.) 

3 arc second resolution (about 90m post spacing) for North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

Scenery includes all maps, lakes, rivers, roads, railroads, cities, towns, land cover, etc.

Nice scenery night lighting with ground lighting concentrated in urban areas (based on real maps) and headlights visible on major highways. 

This allows for realistic night VFR flying with the ability to spot towns and cities and follow roads.

Scenery tiles are paged (loaded/unloaded) in a separate thread to minimize the frame rate hit when you need to load new areas.

Internal Properties EXPOSED!

FlightGear allows users and aircraft designers access to a very large number of internal state variables via numerous internal and external access mechanisms.

 These state variables are organised into a convenient hierarchal “property” tree.

Using the properties tree it is possible to monitor just about any internal state variable in FlightGear. 

It’s possible to remotely control FlightGear from an external script. 

You can create model animations, sound effects, instrument animations and network protocols for about any situation imaginable 

just by editing a small number of human readable configuration files. 

This is a powerful system that makes FlightGear immensely flexible, configurable, and adaptable.

Flexible and Open Aircraft Modeling System

FlightGear has the ability to model a wide variety of aircraft. Currently you can fly the 1903 Wright Flyer,

 strange flapping wing “ornithopters”, a 747 and A320, various military jets, and several light singles.

 FlightGear has the ability to model those aircraft and just about everything in between.

FlightGear has extremely smooth and fluid instrument animation that updates at the same rate as your out-the-window view updates

 (i.e. as fast as your computer can crank, and not artificially limited and chunky like in some sims.)

FlightGear has the infrastructure to allow aircraft designers to build fully animated, fully operational, fully interactive 3d cockpits

 (which even update and display correctly from external chase plane views.)

FlightGear realistically models real world instrument behavior. 

Instruments that lag in real life, lag correctly in FlightGear, gyro drift is modeled correctly, 

the magnetic compass is subject to aircraft body forces — all those things that make real world flying a challenge.

FlightGear also accurately models many instrument and system failures. 

If the vacuum system fails, the HSI gyros spin down slowly with a corresponding degradation in response as well as a slowly increasing bias/error.