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I had no idea that there were this many open source flight simulators

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Dude

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Aug 13, 2008, 12:47:11 AM8/13/08
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Check this out

http://www.webi.org/free-simulators-games.html

http://www.flightgear.org/
Flight Gear - is an Open-Source, multi-platform best flight simulator.
The simulation engine in FlightGear is called SimGear. It is used both
as an end-user application and in academic and research environments,
for the development and pursuit of flight simulation ideas. This
customizability of FlightGear is illustrated by the wide range of
aircraft models that are available in FlightGear, from gliders to
helicopters, and from airliners to fighter jets. These aircraft models
have been contributed by many different people.

http://www.heptargon.de/gl-117/gl-117.htm
lGL-117 - is an action flight simulator for Linux/Unix and MSWindows.
Enter the Eagle Squadron and succeed in several challanging missions
leading though different landscapes. Five predefined levels of video
quality and an amount of viewing ranges let you perfectly adjust the
game to the performance of your system. Joystick, mouse, sound
effects, music...

http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/orbit.html
ORBITER - is a free flight simulator that goes beyond the confines of
Earth's atmosphere. Launch the Space Shuttle from Kennedy Space Center
to deploy a satellite, rendezvous with the International Space Station
or take the futuristic Delta-glider for a tour through the solar
system - the choice is yours. But make no mistake - ORBITER is not a
space shooter.

http://targetware.net/
Targetware is all about enabling you, the player, to determine the
kind of fligh sim experience you want.

http://shatters.net/celestia/index.html
Celestia - The free space simulation that lets you explore our
universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac
OS X.

http://decopter.sourceforge.net/
Decopter - is free unrealistic helicopter simulator.

http://flyingguns.com/
FlyingGuns - is a flight and battlefield simulator used to develop and
test approaches for low-resource, internet enabled games and
distributed simulation. Areas of application might be industrial and
military simulation or entertainment

http://astro.ku.dk/~norup/vertigo/
Vertigo - is a flight simulator, written by Anton Norup Sorensen.
Emphasis is on realism of the flight-model, with several types of air-
and space-crafts selectable.

http://pittrainer.sourceforge.net/
Falcon 4.0 Allied Force Pit Trainer provides a cockpit training
environment for the Falcon 4 Allied Force simulation

and the one I think some of you big iron guys will like
http://a340gc.iradis.org/
Airbus A340 Glass Cockpit project is an Open Source project. The
a340gc project is part of the Airbus A340 simulator project of the
IRADIS Foundation.

Cheers,
Chris

TOCA

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Aug 13, 2008, 7:20:33 AM8/13/08
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"Dude" <chris...@gmail.com> skrev i en meddelelse
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Thank you for ruining my weekend ;o)

Tommy C, Denmark


RandyL

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Aug 13, 2008, 7:58:43 AM8/13/08
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Hi Chris,
I can think of one more. It is:
 
 
I Apollo lunar lander simulator. I have used this before, and it is quire good.
 
Randy L.

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