#FLIGHTGEAR V3.0 HOW TO#
#FLIGHTGEAR V3.0 INSTALL#
#FLIGHTGEAR V3.0 MANUAL#

I don't feel I'm qualified to really comment much on the flight models of the planes I've tried, but they seemed okay. I was pretty pleased flying the three planes that I've flown so far - the Cub, the C172, and the C337. For example, I was very pleased when I hit my trim toggle button out of habit, and it worked! A lot of the buttons were actually the same as what I have them set to in both FS9 and FSX.

#FLIGHTGEAR V3.0 HOW TO#

I'll be honest, it took me a bit to figure out how to get the plane I was sitting in (a Cub) started! I was extremely pleased that my Saitek yoke, rudder and throttle quadrant all worked fine without any mucking about with settings. Once you are actually sitting in a plane, of course there's lots to take in - especially when you're in a new sim where you have no idea what does what, the graphics are different, etc - everything is slightly familiar, but slightly foreign at the same time. There's a bit of reading to be done, a bit of a learning curve perhaps, in order to get the most of what you want out of the sim. It looks like once you have it setup to your liking, you can simply save a configuration for later use, which is nice, since you could have different configurations for different uses.

I guess that can be taken as a good or a bad thing, depending on which way a person prefers. Oh-My-Gosh-Look-At-All-Those-Options! I explored quite a bit of the startup menus, there are a ton of options to play and fiddle with!! Rendering, weather, objects, I suspect it will take a bit of reading before I learn what everything is, but there is no shortage of configuration stuff to fiddle with. I would say that it does require that the user have a bit of computer savvy.

#FLIGHTGEAR V3.0 MANUAL#

I'd share more on what my initial problems were, but since I was trying to figure out from the manual if there were extra steps to be done, I managed to fix it without really knowing how. The first launch for some reason didn't run, the second didn't have my environment variables loaded, but after that it was smooth sailing. I'm able to launch it via the shortcut it put (it let me choose, I like that) in my start menu. Slight problems, but nothing that opening up the (hefty) manual couldn't fix.

#FLIGHTGEAR V3.0 INSTALL#

Install went smooth, no hiccups in installing to a drive / folder of my choice. I downloaded via bittorrent - very, very fast. I downloaded the base package, as well as the airplane package, since I knew I'd be wanting to try out some of the other planes. The download and install went very smooth.

Although I've played with multiple flavors of Linux on my older computers for a lot of years, I don't currently have it installed on anything that I'd care to run a flight simulator on, so I downloaded and installed FG on my Win7 64bit machine.Īnyways, as someone who isn't already a loyal FG user, nor someone who is intent on 'protecting' my sim of choice, I thought I'd share my experiences with it in case it helps inform anyone else who might be curious. One of the reasons that FlightGear interests me is that I've always been a big fan of open source software. I don't consider myself to be 100% tied to any platform in particular, although I have quite a bit invested in both FS9 and FSX.

That, combined with some of the videos showing features in the latest release, convinced me to download and give it a try for myself. So, I've read with interest a few of the other threads regarding FlightGear.

Flightgear v3.0