

Want to see everything that's new? The full changelog can be found here, and you can download here. FlightGear flightsimulator is a premium free open-source, multi-platform, customizable, cooperative development project since 1997. Nice to see they kept fighting them off and working to improve FlightGear freely for everyone. At times there has been companies coming along trying to rip it off entirely too, like VirtualPilot3D, ProFlightSimulator and others trying to sell copies of it under a different name. What's impressive is that it's been going in some form since all the way back in 1997, and they just keep on improving all the tech behind the scenes. June 12, 2021: new bug-fix release 2020.3.9 is available. Since the last release there's various launcher improvements, tidal movement is in for the littoral areas close to shore, there's new AI models, updates to a lot of existing aircraft, updated translations, a thread-safe particle manager to reduce crash bugs and lots of other optimizations. July 28, 2021: bug-fix release 2020.3.11 is available, with many stability improvements. Most people interested probably don't stick to the LTS versions, as the in between releases always have the exciting stuff. Developed by volunteers, they're trying to make the most advanced flight sim that's entirely free to use. Frustrated by the lack of customization and extensibility available in commercial projects, FlightGear’s founders wanted to create a. It can run on Windows (7, 8, and 10), macOS, Linux, Solaris, and IRIX platforms. Users can download it anytime and copy it to as many machines as they like.

This new build with FlightGear 2020.3 is what they're calling a "Long Term Support" release, as they nowadays offer a full stable build and much more regular content updates. FlightGear Flight Simulator is an open-source project. FlightGear is a rather advanced free, open source flight simulator that's very much alive and kicking with a big new release now available.
