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The art of cloud and weather rendering 25 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm
Author: Thorsten Renk Advanced Weather Advanced Weather is one of Flightgear’s two weather-generating systems. It operates based on a (limited) understanding of atmosphere physics – the user selects...
A preview of novel features for the next release 13 May 2013 | 04:57 pm
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 o...
FlightGear v2.10 Released 18 Feb 2013 | 02:44 am
February 17, 2013 – FlightGear v2.10 is Released! The FlightGear development team is happy to announce the v2.10 release of FlightGear, the free, open-source flight simulator. This new version contai...
FlightGear v2.10 Release Candidates 5 Feb 2013 | 12:01 pm
February, 17, 2013: FlightGear v2.10 is official released. Please proceed to the download page and download the full official release! All the files shown here are old news. Please move along, noth...
Fly Hawaii! 21 Jan 2013 | 03:05 pm
Author: Thorsten Renk Destination Hawaii One of the first places available as hires scenery in Flightgear, and also among the first places to receive a dedicated regional texture scheme, the island ...
12 Days of Flight Tips (Season 2) 2 Jan 2013 | 11:00 am
Last year, Oscar (youtube user: osjcag) created a series of short “howto” movies called the 12 Days of FlightGear Tips. This year he is producing Season #2! Each day he releases a new tip in honor o...
Terrain Texturing 13 Nov 2012 | 02:36 pm
Author: Thorsten Renk Regional and procedural texturing It’s perhaps not a big secret that the default Flightgear World Scenery does not look stunning everywhere in the world. Yet, with regional tex...
FlightGear v2.8.0 Released 17 Aug 2012 | 10:30 pm
August 17, 2012 – FlightGear v2.8.0 is Released The FlightGear development team is happy to announce the v2.8.0 release of FlightGear, the free, open-source flight simulator. This new version cont...
Interview: Jon Berndt 2 Jun 2012 | 07:50 pm
Q: How long have you been involved in FlightGear? For over ten years. I’m the development coordinator (and occasionally accused of being the BDFL) for JSBSim. It’s been just a few months more than te...
Interview: Sam Clancy 2 Jun 2012 | 07:45 pm
Q: How long have you been involved in FlightGear? Actively I’ve been involved with the FlightGear project since early January 2011. Simply because my old computer (which my family had had for about 5...