#Flightgear third party aircraft software#

While some are in it's early development stages there is an ever larger growing number of high quality aircraft.

#Flightgear third party aircraft software#

Contrast this with the traditional approach of commercial software vendors, who are limited by the collective ability of the people they can hire and pay.įlightGear provides over 500 different aircraft in every category imaginable.

In doing so, we are able to take advantage of the efforts of tremendously talented people from around the world. This modeling also takes into account seasonal effects so you have 24 hour days north of the arctic circle in the summer for instance.įlightGear and its source code have intentionally been kept open, available, and free. The celestial bodies all follow their precise courses through the sky.

And FlightGear is capable of simulating the vast majority of these conditions automatically.įlightGear implements accurate time of day modeling with correctly placed sun, moon, stars, and planets for the specified time and date. Have you ever admired the beautiful colors of a sunset? Have you maybe wondered why sunsets sometimes show a fantastic palette of glowing red and golden colors in the sky and sometimes a rather muted blue-grey? Have you observed distant hills fade into blue haze while the glittering reflection of the sun on water shifts color to a yellow-orange and asked yourself where the difference comes from? Have you wondered why there's sometimes a halo visible around the moon? Or did you see a rainbow or aurora borealis? All these phenomena and more are related to light scattering in the atmosphere.