FlightGear is a flight-simulator created by an international group of volunteers, and released as free, open-sourceGPL software. It has been used foracademic research, education, and for fun.

FlightGear comes with a set of illustrated documentation, notably "The Manual," which is included in the installation package. This wiki provides additional documentation on both user and development topics.

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• Help on using FlightGear
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FlightGear Newsletter March 2025 (archive)

• February 27, 2025: FlightGear2024.1.1 is released.

• October 18, 2023: FlightGear2020.3.19 is released.

• March 21, 2023: FlightGear2020.3.18 is released.

• November 22, 2022: FlightGear2020.3.17 is released.

• ...that FlightGear is used in severalFAA approved simulators?
• ...that you can simulate random system failures realistically?
• ...that anyone can edit FlightGear source and contribute to the project?
• ...that the whole city of Barcelona, Spain isavailable in 3D models?
• ...that there are3,453 articles on this wiki?