FlightGear free Flight Simulator game (often shortened to FGFS) is a free, open source multi-platform flight simulator developed since 1997. David Murr started the project on April 8, 1996. The project had its first release in 1997 and continued in development, the most recent release being version 1.1 inMarch 2019. FlightGear for Mac OS X 2018.3.5 Apr 2, 2020: FlightGear for Mac OS X 2018.3.2 Jan 29, 2019: Usability: Flightplan loading within the launcher. Chinese, Russian and Italian translations for the launcher and UI. X-Plane is designed by an ex-professional pilot is and is easily the most realistic flight sim. X-Plane is also incredibly RAM hungry. The X-Plane system requirements for Mac recommend having 16-24 GB of RAM to use it such is the detail of both the graphics and movement of the planes. As long as you have this, X-Plane works extremely well on Mac because although it is available on Windows and Linux, X-Plane was developed using a Mac.
This is the FlightGear Program DVD for Windows and Mac OS X. It contains everything you need to install and run FlightGear on your computer. The DVD also contains complete source code for the project so can rebuild your own executable and make modifications to the code if you like. Features: View the 2019.1 list of new features and changelog here.
Download FlightGear 2018.3.6 – the latest stable, supported release.
Download FlightGear 2018.3.6 for Windows (versions 7, 8, 10)
Download FlightGear 2018.3.6 for macOS
Download FlightGear for Linux and other platforms on the download for other platforms page.
Download Latest Preview Release
Preview releases contain features that will be included in the next stable release, but receive only limited testing. As a result, some aircraft may not function correctly (or at all) and you might experience other problems with performance or features. Please give feedback on any problems you find via the forums and mailing list, to help make the next stable release better.
Download Aircraft
The easiest way to install aircraft is via the launcher – this will ensure aircraft are installed to the correct location, and get be updated easily when new versions are released by aircraft developers.
If you prefer to download aircraft manually, you can find download additional aircraft here.
Download Scenery
FlightGear has a seamless, continuous oblate ellipsoid world available for you to explore. Our terrain is based on 90m SRTM data and is very detailed. There are over 20,000 airports you can visit world wide. You can download 10×10 degree chunks of the world, run a utility called terrasync to fetch scenery as you fly (just in time), or purchase the entire world on a 3 DVD set.
Download the latest World Scenery data updates.
Download Source Code
Here’s the best part. Every line of source code for this project is available under the GPL license. Cockpit builders, researchers, do-it-yourselfers, industry groups, and students will all find FlightGear very open, very flexible, very adaptable, and very interfacable.
FTP Mirrors
In the event that the primary FlightGear server is busy or slow we have a number of ftp mirror sites. Note: many web browsers will report a failed login rather than a busy server.
Purchase FlightGear DVDs and Gear
Flightgear Macbook Air
Those who prefer the complete FlightGear set on physical media can purchase a ready to run version of FlightGear (OSX or Windows) as well as the entire world scenery set. A portion of the sales goes towards supporting the project and a portion is donated to charity.