FGFS Photo Gallery (v0.8.0 - v0.9.8)

I will typically put the most recent images first. In general, the closer you get to the bottom, the older the code was when the image was captured.

January 2005

January 28, 2005 - Frederic Bouvier has created a very nice model of Alcatraz near San Francisco. alcatraz-real.jpg alcatraz-fgfs.jpg January 18, 2005 - Coinciding with the official Airbus A380 roll out and unveiling of the new Airbus livery, here are a few screenshots of the FlightGear A380. Currently the model is in development and is not quite flyable. A380-1.jpg A380-2.jpg A380-3.jpg A380-5.jpg A380-6.jpg A380-7.jpg A380-8.jpg Syd Adams has built a nice deHavilland Beaver and a nice Citation-II. Frederic built a very detailed model of Alcatraz. Here are a few pictures: Citation-II-3d-panel.jpg alcatraz-flyover.jpg alcatraz-pickup.jpg Recent images from Erik Hofman: 3dcockpitview.jpg 4plane.jpg glasscockpit.jpg

December 2003

Pictures of some of the San Francisco area. The buildings and bridges are modeled by Frederic Bouvier. SFO-1.jpg SFO-2.jpg SFO-3.jpg

November 2003

Here is a 110 second movie of Lee's YF-23 doing some canyon flying south east of Mt. Ranier in Washington state. (19Mb) fgfs-movie2.AVI

September 2003

Here is a 60 second movie of Lee's YF-23 cruising over some SRTM derived terrain. (12Mb) fgfs-movie1.AVI

March 2003

A new terrain approximation algorithm has been implemented which yields much nicer results than the previous (really stupid) algorithm. Here are some samples from near the SFO bay area. The new algorithm does a much nicer job at preserving the important underlying terrain structure including ridges and valleys. terrain1.jpg terrain2.jpg terrain3.jpg terrain4.jpg terrain5.jpg terrain6.jpg

June 2002

Quite a bit of work has been done in support of 3d aircraft models and animation which can be viewed from tower or chase plane views. Also a few of our ground cover textures have been recently reworked. Here are a few images: a4-01.jpg a4-02.jpg a4-03.jpg

April 2002

Here are a few new screen shots taken in the March/April 2002 time frame. c172KSFO.jpg c172shortfinal.jpg c310u3a-panel.jpg

Open Glass Cockpit Project

FlightGear now has an interface to the OpenGC glass cockpit displays. opengc-turning.jpg opengc-tower.jpg

Taxiways

We have added taxiways to the major world airports. These are part of the airport and navaid database maintained by Robin Peel. KSFO-Approach1.jpg KSFO-Approach2.jpg KSFO-Approach3.jpg KSFO-Approach4.jpg

Photo-real airport environments

FlightGear has some initial support for chopping up aerial/satellite photos and using them for scenery. Here is an example from KSJC (San Jose, CA) showing what can be done with a 64Mb video card. KSJC-overhead1.jpg KSJC-overhead2.jpg KSJC-DC-3-departing.jpg KSJC-DC-3-final.jpg Here are a few screen shots from around the pattern. Note, these were used for a presentation on runway incursion issues. The final approach to Taxiway 'Y' is bad, bad, bad and will probably result in the loss of your ticket unless you have a really good excuse. Still, take offs and landings do mistakenly happen on this taxiway from time to time. KSJC-pattern1.jpg KSJC-pattern2.jpg KSJC-pattern3.jpg KSJC-pattern4.jpg KSJC-pattern5.jpg KSJC-pattern6.jpg KSJC-pattern7.jpg KSJC-pattern8.jpg KSJC-pattern9.jpg We have also created a method to easily place runway signs using an ascii text file, rather than having to do any 3d modeling. Here are some (sparse) examples. KSJC-signex1.jpg KSJC-signex2.jpg KSJC-signex3.jpg KSJC-signex4.jpg

Multiple Display Synchronization

FlightGear has native support for synchronizing multiple displays via a network. 3panelFlightgear.jpg trucksim-comp-setup.jpg display-syncing.jpg

Land Use / Land Cover

David Megginson, recently added support for a global land cover/land use database. Here are some of the early results showing a variety of scenery types. boston-night.jpg florida.jpg lc1.jpg lc2.jpg lc3.jpg wh-tux.jpg

Historical Images

Click here to see historical images chronicaling the development of Flightgear from 1996-2001.