Articles by Alex Barrett

Sep 27, 2016 | by Alex Barrett

A look into the future: the FGUK Gazelle for FlightGear

One of FlightGear’s criticism is the lack of realistic helicopters. Fortunately, one of the strengths of this sim is the amazing community of dedicated people around it that, using the tools that already exist and allow it to be a great sim with great potential. The first big effort to bring the sim into the spotlight is the FGUK Gazelle for FlightGear. Here’s what they have to say about it.

Jun 02, 2016 | by Alex Barrett

Introduction to FlightGear

What we’re hoping for here is that this will be a series of articles exploring the Open Source alternative to the commercial Flight Sims out there: FlightGear. Not being commercially funded it might not quite be as polished straight out of the box (there’s also no box)  as you’re used to and hopefully we’ll be able to help with that as well as guide you through installing, configuring and finding the real gems within the community which give you a truly free Flight Sim experience. We'll start with an introduction to FlightGear.