sophisticated, professional, open-sourcehttps://www.flightgear.org/en-ushttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/12-days-of-flight-tips/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/12-days-of-flight-tips/Oscar has created a series of short movies called the 12 Days of FlightGear TipsSun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/12-days-of-flight-tips-season-2/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/12-days-of-flight-tips-season-2/Last year, Oscar (youtube user: osjcag) created a series of short “howto” movies called the 12 Days of FlightGear Tips.Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/a-preview-of-features-for-the-barcelona-release/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/a-preview-of-features-for-the-barcelona-release/Join us for a short overview of what the next FlightGear release within the new automated three-month release cycle will bring!Mon, 11 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/a-preview-of-new-features-in-the-honolulu-release/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/a-preview-of-new-features-in-the-honolulu-release/The first FG release in 2018 will move to the tropical island of Oahu, using Honolulu as the default airport.Sat, 10 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/a-preview-of-the-2018-3-release/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/a-preview-of-the-2018-3-release/After introducing the scripted releases four times a year, the FG development team decided to have a discussion to compare this experience with what we had before.Wed, 26 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/advanced-weather-v1-4-in-flightgear-2-6/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/advanced-weather-v1-4-in-flightgear-2-6/Without a doubt, clouds, haze and fog are the most easily noticed features of weather in a flight simulation, followed by winds.Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/an-experience-like-no-other/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/an-experience-like-no-other/After Vostok-1 and the X-15, FlightGear now adds the third craft capable of reaching space – the Space Shuttle.Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/carrier-ops/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/carrier-ops/The flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson, 8:30 am Pacific Daylight Time, off the US west coast: an F-14b is made ready for a flight.Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/christian-schmitt/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/christian-schmitt/Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/developing-computer-vision-algorithms-with-flightgear/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/developing-computer-vision-algorithms-with-flightgear/On March 12, 2012 suspected Japanese tsunami debris was discovered washed up on the beaches of Long Beach, CA.Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/discover-alaska/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/discover-alaska/If you're looking for a challenge away from busy airports, IFR flight and traffic controllers try flying up in the North for a while.Tue, 21 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/durk-talsma/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/durk-talsma/Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/fgmembers-statement/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/fgmembers-statement/What you see today as FlightGear is the result of 20 years of collaborative development effort by hundreds of talented people all working together to provide a freely available GPL flight simulator that anyone can contribute to.Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/flightprosim-statement/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/flightprosim-statement/As many people will be aware, there is a (self described) “new” flight simulator product that is being widely and actively marketed at the moment under various names – Flight Pro Sim, Pro Flight Simulator, etc.Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/fsweekend-2017/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/fsweekend-2017/This weekend we presented FlightGear at FSweekend 2017, the world's biggest flight simulation event!Mon, 06 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/fsweekend-2022/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/fsweekend-2022/Team FlightGear and ATC-pie look back on another successful FSWeekend at the Aviodrome museum!Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/fsweekend-2024/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/fsweekend-2024/Team FlightGear looks back on a wonderful FSWeekend!Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/fsweekend-2025/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/fsweekend-2025/A team of FlightGear developers showcased the latest release and a preview of the next release at FSweekend, a major international flightsimming event.Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/fsweekend-2026/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/fsweekend-2026/A team of FlightGear developers once again traveled to FSWeekend, a major international flightsimming event.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/gijs-de-rooy/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/gijs-de-rooy/Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/helicopters-in-flightgear/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/helicopters-in-flightgear/While most Flightgear users seem to mainly use GA aircraft or airliners, the simulation of helicopters is not only possible but comes with a nice degree of realism.Sun, 23 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/help-getting-started-with-flightgear-translations/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/help-getting-started-with-flightgear-translations/Translating FlightGear is a volunteer effort like everything else we do.Thu, 21 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/how-we-use-digitalocean/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/how-we-use-digitalocean/FlightGear extends a very warm thank you to DigitalOcean for supporting our project with server and bandwidth contributions.Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/iceland-tour/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/iceland-tour/FlightGear's 2020.3 Long Term Stable (LTS) release has moved to the world's newest country, geologically speaking, Iceland.Sat, 19 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/jon-berndt/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/jon-berndt/Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/mountain-flying-in-the-french-alps/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/mountain-flying-in-the-french-alps/If you are up for some challenging approaches and tricky landings while you like to enjoy spectacular scenery, here is a good suggestion for a destination.Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/olivier-jacq/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/olivier-jacq/Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/opencollective-six-months/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/opencollective-six-months/It's been six months of FlightGear accepting donations on OpenCollective, we wanted to give an update on how it's going.Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/opencollective-started/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/opencollective-started/We now accept financial donations to support the project.Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/preview-2-11/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/preview-2-11/Flightgear is constantly under development, and the current development version (2.11) contains already a number of interesting features beyond what 2.10 could do – so here is some (incomplete) list of what to expect from the next release.Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/preview-3-0/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/preview-3-0/Flightgear is constantly under development and as the feature freeze for the next 3.0 release approaches, it is becoming increasingly clear what the next version will have to offer to users.Thu, 28 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/preview-3-2/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/preview-3-2/Flightgear is constantly under development and as the feature freeze for the next 3.2 release approaches, it is becoming increasingly clear what the next version will have to offer to users.Wed, 07 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/preview-3-4/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/preview-3-4/Flightgear is constantly under development and as the feature freeze for the next 3.2 release approaches, it is becoming increasingly clear what the next version will have to offer to users.Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/preview-3-6/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/preview-3-6/Flightgear is constantly under development and as the feature freeze for the next 3.6 release approaches, it is becoming increasingly clear what the next version will have to offer to users.Tue, 05 May 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/proposal-1-0/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/proposal-1-0/An idea entered my head on Monday, April 8, 1996. "Why wait around for some large company to make what WE want? Why not do it ourselves".Tue, 09 Apr 1996 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/proposal-3-0/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/proposal-3-0/On April 8, 1996, David Murr, drawing on ideas brought forth by others, proposed a new flight simulator developed by volunteers over the Internet.Wed, 30 Oct 1996 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/proposal-3-0-1/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/proposal-3-0-1/On April 8, 1996, David Murr, drawing on ideas brought forth by others, proposed a new flight simulator developed by volunteers over the Internet.Fri, 11 Sep 1998 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/pushing-the-boundaries-the-x-15-story/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/pushing-the-boundaries-the-x-15-story/The North American X-15 was a rocket-powered, hypersonic research aircraft operated from 1959 to 1968 by the US Airforce and NASA.Mon, 03 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2-10/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2-10/The FlightGear development team is happy to announce the v2.10 release of FlightGear, the free, open-source flight simulator.Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2-12/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2-12/The FlightGear development team is happy to announce the v2.12 release of FlightGear, the free, open-source flight simulator.Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2-4/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2-4/The FlightGear development team is proud to announce the release of version 2.4.0 of its free open source flight simulation program.Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2-6/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2-6/The FlightGear development team is happy to announce the v2.6.0 release of FlightGear, the free, open-source flight simulator.Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2-8/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2-8/The FlightGear development team is happy to announce the v2.8.0 release of FlightGear, the free, open-source flight simulator.Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2016-1/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2016-1/The FlightGear development team is delighted to announce the v2016.1 “San Francisco” release of FlightGear, the free, open-source flight simulator.Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2018-3-5/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2018-3-5/There's a new stable (long-term supported) release just available on SourceForge: 2018.3.5.Thu, 02 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2020-1/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2020-1/The FlightGear development team is delighted to announce the 2020.1 release of FlightGear, the free, open-source flight simulator.Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2020-1-2/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2020-1-2/FlightGear 2020.1.2 contains bug-fixes and improvements to the 2020.1 release.Wed, 27 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2020-3/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2020-3/After two years of work, the new stable release of the free open-source flight simulator FlightGear is finally here: 2020.3!Fri, 06 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2020-3-12/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2020-3-12/The latest bug-fix release in our stable 2020.3 series was released today: we are up to version 2020.3.12 now.Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2020-3-5/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2020-3-5/The newest release in the 2020.3 stable series, 2020.3.5, was released a few days ago.Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2024-1-1/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2024-1-1/After many years of work, the new stable release of the free open-source flight simulator FlightGear is finally here!Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2024-1-2/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2024-1-2/A new version of the free open-source flight simulator FlightGear.Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2024-1-3/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2024-1-3/FlightGear version 2024.1.3 brings new features and fixes to our free open-source flight simulator.Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2024-1-4/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2024-1-4/A new version with extra features and bug fixes of our free open-source flight simulator.Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2024-1-5/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2024-1-5/This fifth update brings new fixes and features to our free open-source flight simulator.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-3-0/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-3-0/The FlightGear development team is happy to announce the v3.0 release of FlightGear, the free, open-source flight simulator.Tue, 18 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-3-2/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-3-2/The FlightGear development team is delighted to announce the v3.2 release of FlightGear, the free, open-source flight simulator.Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-3-4/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-3-4/The FlightGear development team is delighted to announce the v3.4 release of FlightGear, the free, open-source flight simulator.Tue, 17 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-candidates-2024-1/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-candidates-2024-1/The FlightGear development team is pleased to announce the start of the release candidate phase for FlightGear 2024.1.Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/sam-clancy/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/sam-clancy/Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/simulating-the-ever-changing-scenery/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/simulating-the-ever-changing-scenery/If you look at aerial imagery of a region every day for a year, it never changes. Yet if you would fly over the same region in reality every day, it would almost never look the same twice.Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/sky-diving-visualization/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/sky-diving-visualization/As a skydiver adds more gear such as front packs and items strapped to legs or arms, the jumper’s basic stability in free-fall is reduced.Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/stuart-buchanan/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/stuart-buchanan/Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/the-grand-view/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/the-grand-view/Few of us will ever have the chance to go to ISS and view the ‘pale blue marble’ from low Earth orbit – for real that is.Sun, 26 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/the-magic-of-light-and-haze/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/the-magic-of-light-and-haze/Have you ever admired the beautiful colors of a sunset?Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/the-new-cessna-172p/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/the-new-cessna-172p/FlightGear's default aircraft, the Cessna 172P, went through a major makeover.Mon, 07 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/the-saab-viggen/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/the-saab-viggen/The Saab JA-37 'Viggen' (the name goes back to an old Swedish word and means 'thunderbolt') is a Swedish single seat all-weather interceptor aircraft variant.Fri, 20 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/what-would-it-be-like-to-fly-a-rocket-into-space/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/what-would-it-be-like-to-fly-a-rocket-into-space/Real spaceships aren't actually piloted into orbit. But what would it be like?Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.flightgear.org/blog/whats-going-on-with-flightgear/https://www.flightgear.org/blog/whats-going-on-with-flightgear/Changes of various kinds affect FlightGear – it seems this year more than in others. Please read here an overview.Thu, 03 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT