FlightGear 2016.4.3, Flight Simulator For Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus

FlightGear is an open-source flight simulator.  It supports a variety of popular platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.) and is developed by skilled volunteers from around the world.  Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License.

The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated and open flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, pilot training, as an industry engineering tool, for DIY-ers to pursue their favorite interesting flight simulation idea, and last but certainly not least as a fun, realistic, and challenging desktop flight simulator. We are developing a sophisticated, open simulation framework that can be expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in contributing.


There are many exciting possibilities for an open, free flight sim. We hope that this project will be interesting and useful to many people in many areas.

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Important Information

• If you have a slow/expensive net connection, prefer physical media, or want to help the FlightGear project, FlightGear is available for purchase.
• For a complete FGFS manual, please refer to the official FlightGear Manual or download the PDF Version.
• If you have trouble connecting, please visit one of our FTP mirrors
• Caution: Check the version numbers of the following prebuilt packages. There is can be a delay between the official release and when the ready to run binaries of the same version become available.

Features:

• Over 20,000 real world airports included in the full scenery set.
• Correct runway markings and placement, correct runway and approach lighting.
• Taxiways available for many larger airports (even including the green center line lights when appropriate.)
• Sloping runways (runways change elevation like they usually do in real life.)
• Directional airport lighting that smoothly changes intensity as your relative view direction changes.
• World scenery fits on 3 DVD's. (I'm not sure that's a feature or a problem!) But it means we have pretty detailed coverage of the entire world.
• Accurate terrain worldwide, based on the most recently released SRTM terrain data.) 3 arc second resolution (about 90m post spacing) for North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
• Scenery includes all vmap0 lakes, rivers, roads, railroads, cities, towns, land cover, etc.
• Nice scenery night lighting with ground lighting concentrated in urban areas (based on real maps) and headlights visible on major highways. This allows for realistic night VFR flying with the ability to spot towns and cities and follow roads.
• Scenery tiles are paged (loaded/unloaded) in a separate thread to minimize the frame rate hit when you need to load new areas.

What's New:

Improved modularization
Atmospheric Light Scattering
Improved performance, reduced memory occupancy
Usability

• A new tool allowing joystick configuration in-sim, making it easier for new users to configure their joysticks as they wish and get flying!
• The Nasal Console has been improved to support copy/paste, making Nasal script development easier.
• The About dialog now includes additional system information, and the ability to copy information to the clipboard, making remote diagnosis of users problems faster and more straightforward.
• The Select Airport option now displays an overhead view of the selected airport, allowing users to preview their new location, and making it easier to choose the correct runway or parking position.
• In-sim checklists have been introduced for a number of aircraft.
• An in-sim documentation browser is included, so users can more easily browse all the documentation available in the base package.

Internationalization

• The FlightGear Manual is now included in both English and French.
• System messages on startup are available in eight languages, just like the in-sim menu.

Complete release notes here.

How to install FlightGea 2016.4.3 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint :

To Install FlightGea 2016.4.3 on Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak, Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 18, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:saiarcot895/flightgear

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install flightgear

To remove :

sudo apt-get remove flightgear