Imagine if a bunch of flight-sim enthusiasts got together and spent years assembling a free, open-source, constantly updated flight simulator. Wait actually, you don’t have to imagine that: It’s a ...

What's FlightGear, you ask? Well, FlightGear is many things to many people, but mostly it's the freely-available open-source flight simulator that caused my old PC to literally explode within twenty ...

The use of computers for flight simulation began in the 1960s and became universal in the 1980's. At first these simulators were relegated to high-end, specialist systems but as the power of the ...