Flight Simulator

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Flight Simulator

You are purchasing a new CD of this product. This product is the full version and is new on CD.

Works with Windows XP, Vista & Windows 7.

FEATURES:
Software comes with west coast scenery in the San Francisco area installed & access to all other scenery via download at no additional charge.
Optional west, central and east coast scenery disks may be added for complete scenery views.
Over 20,000 real World airports can be added with the optional full scenery disk set.
Correct runway markings and placement, correct runway and approach lighting.
Taxiways available for many larger airports with green center line lights when appropriate.
Sloping runways which change elevation like they usually do in real life.
Directional airport lighting that smoothly changes intensity as your relative view direction changes.
The optional complete World scenery set has detailed coverage of the entire world.
Accurate terrain worldwide, based on the most recently released SRTM terrain data with 3 arc second resolution (about 90m post spacing) for North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
Scenery includes all 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.

These planes are included, plus many many more!

Boeing 737
Boeing 747
Boeing 777
A-10
Beechcraft B1900D
Cessna 172
Cessna 310
F-16
Hawker Hunter
Messerschmitt BF-109
Piper J-3 Cub
Piper Cherokee Warrior II
P-51D Mustang
Rascal 110
Northrop T-38
1903 Wright Flyer
& Many More!

New Features!
 
This new version has much improved multiplayer support. There is even a multiplayer map server (based on google map technology) that can show all the active pilots superimposed on top of a google map.

FlightGear implements extremely accurate time of day modeling with correctly placed sun, moon, stars, and planets for the specified time and date. FlightGear can track the current computer clock time in order to correctly place the sun, moon, stars, etc. in their current and proper place relative to the earth. If it's dawn in Sydney right now, it's dawn in the sim right now when you locate yourself in virtual Sydney. The sun, moon, stars, and planets all follow their correct courses through the sky. This modeling also correctly takes into account seasonal effects so you have 24 hour days north of the arctic circle in the summer, etc. We also illuminate the correctly placed moon with the correctly placed sun to get the correct phase of the moon for the current time/date, just like in real life.

FlightGear has the ability to model a wide variety of aircraft. Currently you can fly the 1903 Wright Flyer, a Boeing 747, a Cessna 172 and 310, plus various military jets, and much more. FlightGear has the ability to model those aircraft and just about everything in between.

FlightGear has extremely smooth and fluid instrument animation that updates at the same rate as your out-the-window view updates (i.e. as fast as your computer can crank, and not artificially limited and chunky like in some sims.)

FlightGear has the infrastructure to allow aircraft designers to build fully animated, fully operational, fully interactive 3d cockpits (which even update and display correctly from external chase plane views.)

FlightGear realistically models real world instrument behavior. Instruments that lag in real life, lag correctly in FlightGear, gyro drift is modeled correctly, the magnetic compass is subject to aircraft body forces -- all those things that make real world flying a challenge.

FlightGear also accurately models many instrument and system failures. If the vacuum system fails, the HSI gyros spin down slowly with a corresponding degradation in response as well as a slowly increasing bias/error.

A number of networking options allow FlightGear to communicate with other instances of FlightGear, GPS receivers, external flight dynamics modules, external autopilot or control modules, as well as other software such as the Open Glass Cockpit project and the Atlas mapping utility.

A generic input/output option allows for a user defined output protocol to a file, serial port or network client.

A multi player protocol is available for using FlightGear on a local network in a multi aircraft environment, for example to practice formation flight or for tower simulation purposes.

The powerful network options make it possible to synchronize several instances of FlightGear allowing for a multi-display, or even a cave environment. If all instances are running at the same frame rate consistently, it is possible to get extremely good and tight synchronization between displays. 
 
Full Version. There are no limitations on this software.

Price: $4.95

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