In 1997 I took over more formal leadership of the project and we headed off mostly in our current direction. no OpenGL) but that effort thankfully stalled. We started out writing our own 3D graphics routines to run on 2D hardware (i.e. A brief history of FlightGearĬurtis Olsen provided this account of FlightGear’s beginnings:įlightGear really started in its earliest form in 1996, about 10 years ago. I’ve heard tales of woe on the IRC channel from those trying to run FlightGear on Linux with ATI cards. For Linux users, the best bet seems to be an Nvidia card with 3D enabled. The bottom line is that you need 3D acceleration. You can also grab a tarball, or check out the latest from CVS, and build it from scratch, but beware, it may require a serious effort to build.īefore you bother installing FlightGear, however, make sure your system meets the minimum hardware requirements. In Ubuntu Edgy, that’s 0.9.10-2, and that’s what I have used while writing this article.
#FLIGHTGEAR AIRPORT INSTALL#
It was used in an episode of Fox TV’s legal drama Justice to prove pilot error in the fatal crash of a private plane.įor most of us, the best way to install FlightGear is to use the version included in our distribution of choice. How hot? You may have seen it used recently on prime time TV and not realized it. After 10 years of development, it has suddenly become a very hot item. You can choose to fly more than 100 different aircraft, ranging from a Sopwith Camel to a UFO, you can take off and land from thousands of airports, and you can fly over virtually any terrain in the world. It is sophisticated, realistic, and extensible. FlightGear is a multiplatform, GPLed flight simulator.
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