FlightGear Flight Simulator (often shortened to FlightGear or FGFS) is an open-source multi-platform flight simulator and it is totally free. FlightGear v2.0 is now available for download.

FlightGear 2.0.0 has new features such as wildfire when your plane crashes and water textures that include reflections from objects such as the sun. A more dynamic world is being developed which has steam trains and cars. Also, in version 2.0.0, FlightGear saves its screenshots in a PNG format instead of its usual PPM  format which allows more compatibility with image readers.

There are over 200 official FlightGear aircrafts for the simulator.

While the base package only comes with scenery for the San Francisco Bay area, users can currently fly just about anywhere in the world. FGFS Scenery Downloads Version 1.0.1 has locations around the world for download.

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Here is a small video collection of FlightGear Flight Simulator in action.

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