In reality, when learning to fly you would have an instructor sitting next to you to teach you how to fly and keep you safe. (3) Internet availability and speed continues to improve around the world. If you are new to flying, an advanced simulator such as FlightGear can seem daunting: You are presented with a cockpit of an aircraft with little information on how to fly it. (2) FlightGear now makes it so easy to access the entire world scenery and browse/install aircraft right inside the program. (1) FlightGear has always been a free download the store’s main purpose was to be a service to those with slow/expensive internet. The forum and wiki can be great resources for learning more about what resources and tricks are available to make FlightGear look and run it’s best.įor several reasons I am removing the FlightGear program stock from the FlightGear store and essentially shutting the doors for now.Download FlightGear 2020.3 for macOS AppImage binary release for Linux x86 systems Download the sources other platforms on the download for other platforms page. The Alouette III getting close to a volcanic plume. There’s many updated aircraft, visual enhancements and a new default airport/region: Keflavk (BIKF) in Iceland. In addition, you can check around online for additional 3rd party aircraft. Download FlightGear 2020.3 for Windows (versions 7, 8, 10) - or update from an earlier 2020.3 version using the updater. After two years of work, the new stable release of the free open-source flight simulator FlightGear is finally here: 2020.3 It replaces 2018.3 as our supported, stable version. Inside the FlightGear launcher you can browse, download, install, and fly any of the available aircraft.Once FlightGear is installed you can turn on “terrasync” to automatically download the newest world scenery as you visit new areas.Visit our main web page to download and install FlightGear (always 100% for free!) FlightGear is 100% free to download - including the entire world scenery database and all the 100’s of available aircraft.