FlightGear 3.4 Has Performance Improvements, New Aircraft

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FlightGear 3.4 Has Performance Improvements, New Aircraft

FlightGear 3.4 was released yesterday as the latest version of this popular open-source flight simulator...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FlightGear-3.4-Released

[uid313]

Boring airplanes

Too bad it only have boring commercial airplanes and some really old boring military aircraft.

Too bad it doesn't have any modern, state-of-the-art, stealth jet fighters.

[log0]

Too bad it only have boring commercial airplanes and some really old boring military aircraft.

Too bad it doesn't have any modern, state-of-the-art, stealth jet fighters.

You mean like the F-35B-jsbsim, F-35B-yasim?

[uid313]

Yeah, because Raptor and friends have documentation available for everyone.
It's not aiming to be another Ace Combat. You want to shoot modern stuff, go with DCS.

There are other planes than than the F-22 Raptor. Such as the Russian, Chinese, Indian, Swedish and Japanese planes.

You mean like the F-35B-jsbsim, F-35B-yasim?

As far as I know, these are not bundled with the official FlightGear distribution.
These may be third-party planes available for download from the website, but they are usually of very poor quality.

[mike4]

I use: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Scripted_..._Debian/Ubuntu

With that you get lots of fighter airplanes like the F35b on FGFS 3.5 if you want bleeding edge. But the whole takes around 7-8GB. Some planes are poor but you're welcome
to improve them yourself.

[log0]

There are other planes than than the F-22 Raptor. Such as the Russian, Chinese, Indian, Swedish and Japanese planes.



As far as I know, these are not bundled with the official FlightGear distribution.
These may be third-party planes available for download from the website, but they are usually of very poor quality.

So first you complain that there are no modern planes, and now the ones that are there, are not good enough for you? I see where this is going.

[xfce_fanboy]

Does anybody have experience with the Linux port of X-Plane 10 to make a valid comparison with FlightGear 3.x? I would expect X-Plane to be a cut above FlightGear since it's a commercial product, but FlightGear seems very impressive for an open-source, volunteer / donation-driven effort.

[Artemis3]

The Ubuntu PPA is still missing the huge dependency "flightgear-data-all" and won't work quite yet. Considering the PPA maintainer does have this file in the "Prerelease" and "Daily" variants, i assume its just a matter of time.

https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895

[lucrus]

Sorry to resume this old thread, but I was wondering if FlightGear could be integrated into the PTS tests Michael usually runs.

[Michael]

Sorry to resume this old thread, but I was wondering if FlightGear could be integrated into the PTS tests Michael usually runs.

AFAIK, FlightGear doesn't work yet for fully-automated benchmarking... Some years ago there was some basics added to FlightGear for testing but as far as I know never complete automated support from start to finish.