FlightGear Announcements
March 4, 2008 - World Scenery v1.0.0 released.
The World Scenery is made for FlightGear 1.0.0, but from a technical
point is should also work with the previous v0.9.8 - v0.9.10 versions of
FlightGear. The scenery is based on the following data sources:
- landcover/landmass data provided from the
FlightGear MapServer,
identical with VMap0 data
- elevation data: SRTM3 version 2, SRTM30/GTOPO30 version 2 (both
from ftp://e0srp01u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm/version2/)
- airport data: apt.dat as released with the V1.0 base package
- Most objects and models from the
Scenery Objects Database
The main changes relative to the old world scenery are:
- points previously classified as "town", but not having much in
common with settlements at all, have been removed
- airport layouts updated
- objects from the Scenery Objects Database updated
In addition, the order of taxiways from the airport database is now used
as specified in the apt.dat-file - in contrast to being sorted by size
as in previous scenery builds. Many taxidraw users have been using the
sorting of the taxiways to achieve specific visual effects, which are
visible now in the scenery.
December 17, 2007 - FlightGear v1.0.0
released.
Version 1.0.0 is now available for download.
An updated set
of aircraft are also available on the aircraft downloads page.
(Requires SimGear-1.0.0 to compile from source.)
Download FlightGear here.
May 26, 2007 - FlightGear review on
FlightSim.com.
FlightSim.com has a new
review of FlightGear by Chris Hodge. Chris made some wice screen shots
and said many kind things. FlightSim.com is a very high profile flight
simming web site.
May 16, 2007 - FlightGear review on
Sourcetrunk.
Sourcetrunk has a very
nice podcast style review of FlightGear by Dimitri Larmuseau.
Dimitri clearly understands FlightGear, covers the most important
features, and is very entertaining. Definitely worth a listen.
May 14, 2007 - FlightGear v0.9.11-pre1
released.
Version 0.9.11-pre1 is available for download (source
code only.)
(requires SimGear-0.3.11-pre1)
October 30, 2006 - Atlas-0.3.1 released.
Atlas is a real time moving map
(and background bitmap generator)
designed to work with FlightGear. The latest version can fetch
background images from a wms server and includes several bug fixes.
October 9, 2006 - Trevor Campell
announces the latest version of his FlightGear
Flight Planner is available for download. This is a Java/SWT
based Gui flight planner which uses the airport and navaid
databases of Flightgear, allowing the user to search for airports
and navigation aids and plan flights between them.
September 28, 2006 - WidowPC in partnership
with FlightGear.org is now offering FlightGear PC's that are based
on their insanely fast hardware and include FlightGear preloaded
and optimized for maximum peformance. If you are thinking of
upgrading your hardware anyway, why not check out the best and
fastest possible option.
June 8, 2006 - Updates to "The FlightGear Manual".
Updates include improved instructions for carrier operations, instructions
for the multiplayer system, a discussion of the tutorial system, and a new
chapter on Air-to-Air-refuelling:
FlightGear documentation page.
June 3, 2006 - FlightGear-v0.9.10 wins
Softpedia's "Pick" award with 5 out of 5 stars.
Softpedia labs has independently tested our latest release and
have granted it with the
"100% CLEAN" Softpedia award.
May 28, 2006 - New FlightGear wiki site.
We have a newer, better, updated FlightGear wiki site setup at
http://wiki.flightgear.org
May 5, 2006 - FGLive, FlightGear
Live-CD 0.1 LinuxTag edition
First 'official' FlightGear Live-CD is available for download via
BitTorrent or
FTP, including South-Germany and Wiesbaden Scenery. You are
invited to have a look at the
README.
Please verify the
MD5 checksum.
January 17, 2006 - World Scenery
v0.9.10 released.
A brand new scenery release is now available. I am calling this
v0.9.10 because it was created after the v0.9.9 source code
release, but it should work with FlightGear-v0.9.8, v0.9.9 and the
current cvs code.
New in this build is: the latest airport and taxiway updates from
Robin Peel, SRTM2 based terrain, the latest objects from Jon
Stockill's world object database, updated airport surfaces, and 2d
data from the new shapefile database at http://www.custom-scenery.org/
Also included are a myriad of little bug fixes and glitch-be-gones.
January 8, 2006 - The Paraisoft Team has begun
translating the FlightGear web pages into Spanish.
December 20, 2005 - All FlightGear mailing lists
moved to SourceForge.net.
In order to reduce local server load and bandwidth consumption I have
moved all the FG mailing lists to SF. All existing subscriptions will
be migrated to the new lists automatically. The only thing you will
need to do is post to the new list addresses. These are detailed on
our SF project
page.
November 17, 2005 - FlightGear v0.9.9 released.
Version 0.9.9 is available for download (initially only source
code available.)
(requires SimGear-0.3.9)
September 19, 2005 - OV-10 Bronco Association
Museum Simulator Project.
Dave Culp, a former USAF Bronco pilot, constructed a
FlightGear-based OV-10 Bronco flight simulator for the OV-10
Bronco Association at Meacham Field, Fort Worth Texas.
More details ...
August 16, 2005 - TaxiDraw-0.3.2
released.
The next version of TaxiDraw is available at
http://taxidraw.sf.net/
This is new version has been moved to SourceForge. It supports
X-Plane v810 file formats, includes a few bug fixes, build system
improvements, and new features.
August 10, 2005 - Atlas-0.3.0 released.
Atlas is a real time moving map
(and background bitmap generator)
designed to work with FlightGear. The latest version can display
ILS approaches and has several other improvements and bug fixes.
July 11, 2005 - The MathWorks Announces
Aerospace Blockset 2.
New FlightGear Flight Simulator Interface Brings Vehicle
Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization Capabilities to the
Desktop.
NATICK, Mass. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - July 11, 2005
The MathWorks
today announced the availability of the
Aerospace
Blockset 2,
which builds on the foundation of Simulink(R) and Model-Based
Design for aerospace vehicle modeling, simulation, and
visualization. New features bring high-quality flight simulation
graphics to the desktop, where modeling and simulation is more
accessible and economical than design and test conducted in a
lab. Additionally, the new version provides off-the-shelf,
drag-and-drop representations of aerospace components using
standards-based reference models. Consequently, engineers can use
the Aerospace Blockset 2 to optimize vehicle subsystem
configurations and rapidly perform subsequent tradeoff studies
earlier in the design stage.
Interfacing with FlightGear flight simulator software, new
animation blocks in the Aerospace Blockset 2 enable users to
visualize vehicle dynamics in a sophisticated 3-D simulation
framework. Engineers can now quickly evaluate and verify complex
flight dynamics before committing to a final design by using
Simulink for multidomain simulation and Model-Based Design.
Contact: The MathWorks,
Inc. Dave Smith, 508-647-7427.
Click
here for the full text of the announcement.
March 24, 2005 - TaxiDraw-0.3.1 released.
The next version of TaxiDraw is available at
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/taxidraw.html
This is primarily a bug-fix release - a couple of X-Plane format
writing bugs are fixed so all users should upgrade.
January 25, 2005 - New Aircraft.
We have just added a new
Boeing 314 Seaplane, the Concorde has been updated to v2.0, and
several updates have been made to the B-52F Stratofortress. These
can all be downloaded from the aircraft download page. (Note some
mirror sites may lag ...)
January 18, 2005 - FlightGear v0.9.8
released.
Version 0.9.8 is available for download.
Download a ready to run version for your
platform (as they become available.)
You can also
download additional aircraft, scenery, and the entire source code.
(requires SimGear-0.3.8)
January 18, 2005 - SimGear v0.3.8
released.
Version 0.3.8 (source code) is available for download.
Download source code.
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