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blinry · 1w
I was pretty impressed by #FlightGear, the GPL-licensed flight simulator! If you crank the graphics settings up, and don't look too closely, it looks pretty okay! Here's a flight over Hamburg! I thin...
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FlightGear doesn't try to be a "fun" game, but a simulator that's as realistic as possible.

Almost all buttons in the cockpit do something, and referring to real books, manuals, and charts worked really well!

Here's FlightGear's cockpit of a smaller plane, a Cessna 172P.

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blinry · 1w
Some tips and tricks for #FlightGear: Ctrl+C labels and highlights the controls in the cockpit. The browser map (Equipment -> Map (opens in browser)) was much more helpful for me than the in-game ones. You need the `--httpd=8080` launch option for this. Another open-source project has a brilliant...