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List of Flight simulation games

This is a list of free/libre flight simulation games:

Game	Screenshot	Last Release	Genres	Description
FlightGear		2023-10-18	Flight simulator	FlightGear FlightGear Genre Flight simulator Latest release 2020.3.19  (Announcement) Release date October 18th, 2023 Platforms Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, Mac Developer Wolfram Kuss, Vassilii Khachaturov, Norman Vine, Jon S. Berndt, Cameron Moore,Durk Talsma, Curtis Olson, Bernie Bright, Tony Peden, and Alex Perry Code license GPL Media license GPL Engine OpenSceneGraph P. language C++, C Library PLIB Contribute FlightGear is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Forum Available as a package in:   Slackware: FlightGear  Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: line 1: convert: command not found Arch AUR: flightgear  Debian: flightgear  Fedora: FlightGear   Gentoo: games-simulation/flightgear  Ubuntu: flightgear  OpenSUSE: FlightGear  Flatpak: org.flightgear.FlightGear  Snap: flightgear  FreeBSD: flightgear FlightGear is a 3D flight simulation game. The entire game is licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is also sold on 3 DVDs. It is written in the C++ and C programming languages. The project was started in 1996, with its first release in 1997.
Thunder&Lightning		2007-11-10	Flight simulation, RTS	Thunder&Lightning Thunder&Lightning version 070827 Genre Flight simulation, RTS Latest release 071111 Release date November 10, 2007 Developer Jonas Eschenburg Code license GPL Contribute Thunder&Lightning is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Thunder&Lightning, or short TnL, is a futuristic flight simulation and real-time strategy game inspired by Carrier Command created by Jonas Eschenburg. It is licensed under GPL. The latest version is 071111, released on November 10, 2007.
Search and Rescue		2011-08-07	Flight simulation	Search and Rescue Genre Flight simulation Latest release 1.4.0 Release date 2011-08-07 Developer WolfPack Entertainment Code license GPL Media license GPL Contribute Search and Rescue is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Search and Rescue is a 3D helicopter-based air rescue flight simulator game written by WolfPack Entertainment. The latest version of the game is 1.4.0 released on 2011-08-07. It is licensed under GPL. It has simple, not very realistic, controls, and is mission-based.
SABRE		1999	Flight Simulation	SABRE SABRE 0.2.4b Genre Flight Simulation Latest release 0.2.4b Release date 1999 Developers Dan Hammer, Antti Barck, the xpm file in Debian contributed by Robert Cleaver Ancell Code license GPL Contribute SABRE is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Source Code SABRE is a fighter plane simulator for X11 or svgalib, which takes place in the Korean war. The latest version of the game is 0.2.4b in 1999. A version was included with Linux Games & Entertainment for X Windows as well as and with the Red Hat Powertools.
Vertigo (game)		2002-04-10	Flight simulator	Vertigo Vertigo Genre Flight simulator Latest release 0.26 Release date April, 10th 2002 Developer Anton Norup Sørensen Code license GNU GPL P. language C Contribute Vertigo is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage This article is about the game. For the person, see Vertigo (person). Vertigo is a flight simulator written by Anton Norup Sørensen. It is written in the C programming language. The last version, 0.26, was released in April 2002. No further development is done. The source is licensed under the GNU GPL, while the binaries are freeware and cannot be sold.
GL-117		March 12th, 2005	Combat flight simulation	GL-117 Genre Combat flight simulation Latest release 1.3.2  (Announcement) Release date March 12th, 2005 Developers Thomas Drexl; Jean-Marc Le Peuvedic, Eugene Andreeschev, Eric Cheung; Piotr Pawlow, Louens Veen, Arne Reiners, Norbert Drexl, James Stone; Bernhard Kaindl, Cedric Delfosse, others Code license GPLv2 Media license GPLv2 Libraries GLUT, SDL Contribute GL-117 is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. GL-117 is a combat flight simulator by Thomas Drexl and others. The latest version is 1.3.2, although it was also forked into Linux Air Combat.
ACM		2020-04-16	Flight simulation games	ACM Genre Flight simulation games Latest release 6.0 Release date April 4th, 2020 Developers Riley Rainey, Umberto Salsi Code license GPLv2 Media license GPLv2 P. language C Libraries ALSA, Tk Contribute ACM is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Available as a package in:   Debian: ACM ACM is a multiplayer flight simulator. Several civilian and military aircraft and two scenes are included. The game works without a server, the clients communicate using IEEE Distributed Interactive Simulation protocol (DIS). A version was included with The UNIX Book of Games by Janice Winsor in 1996, and with the Red Hat Powertools.
Airrace		2010-12-06	Flight simulator	Airrace Genre Flight simulator Latest release 0.1 Release date December 6th, 2010 Developer Dimitris Papavasiliou Code license GPL Media license GPL P. language Lua Libraries OpenGL, OpenAL, Gtk+, MagickWand Contribute Airrace is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Airrace is a proof-of-concept app for the Aviation flight simulator. Its aim is to provide some level of realism while still keeping things simple. In Airrace you fly a light plane thru an obstacle course of pylons. There are 7 practice courses and 5 race tracks. Airrace runs on top of the Techne platform which is a general purpose, programmable, interactive, physical simulator and renderer. Airrace can take advantage of hardware acceleration but can also be run without it.
Combat Simulator Project		2007-09-21	Flight Simulation	Combat Simulator Project Genre Flight Simulation Latest release 0.2180 Release date September 21, 2007 Code license GPLv2 P. language C++ Contribute Combat Simulator Project is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Combat Simulator Project aka CSP is an aerial combat simulator. The latest version of the game is 0.2180 released on September 21, 2007. It is primary written in the C++ programming language and is licensed under the GPLv2. The original project on Sourceforge seems abandoned. But some more effort was put in CSP on GitHub.
RedShift		2006-12-23	Flight simulation game	RedShift Genre Flight simulation game Latest release 0.1.1 Release date December 23rd, 2006 Developer Christian Haag Code license GPL version 2.0 P. language C Contribute RedShift is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code RedShift is a Flight simulation game in the spirit of GL-117, developed by Christian Haag. The game is licensed under the GPL v2. The latest version of the game is 0.1.1 on December 23th, 2006. It is written in the C programming language.
Search and Rescue II		2023-08-10	Flight simulation	Search and Rescue II Genre Flight simulation Latest release 2.6.0  (Announcement) Release date August 10th, 2023 Code license GPLv2 Media license GPLv2 P. language C Libraries OpenAL, SDL2 Contribute Search and Rescue II is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Available as a package in:   Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: line 1: convert: command not found Arch AUR: sar2   OpenSUSE: sar2 Search and Rescue II is a 3D helicopter-based flight simulation game with missions to extinguish fires or rescue persons.
Fictional Air Combat		2012-10-09		Flight simulation games Screenshot of Fictional Air Combat Latest release 0.2.5  (Announcement) Release date October 9th, 2012 Code license GPL Contribute Flight simulation games is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Source Code Fictional Air Combat is a flight simulator in the early development stages. It does not to simulate real aircraft or historical war scenarios, only fictional ones, hence the name. The game revolves around fighter aircraft.
Linux Air Combat		2022-08-04	Flight simulation game	Linux Air Combat World War II mission Genre Flight simulation game Latest release 08p81  (Announcement) Release date Aug 4th, 2022 Platforms Linux Code license GPL P. language C++ Library SDL1.1, OpenGL Contribute Linux Air Combat is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Forum Available as a package in:   Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: line 1: convert: command not found Arch AUR: linux-air-combat Linux Air Combat (LAC) is a combat flight simulator set in the World War 2 era. It descended from GL-117, but a full rewrite has transformed it from game to simulator. It contains 54 planes in offline tutorial missions or in one of 10 multiplayer internet missions on a free server. Joystick, mouse, or gamepads are supported as input. It handles inter-player text messaging, VoIP via Mumble, and text-to-speech via espeak. Although full source code is published for those that want to compile it, LAC is also available pre-compiled in the well-known "AppImage" format for immediate use on X-86 hardware without compiling and with no need to install any prerequisite libraries. Because LAC is coded for high efficiency, it runs well even on inexpensive Linux computers like the Raspberry Pi.

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