FlightGear
Flight simulator
by The FlightGear DevelopersVerified
Screenshots & videos
About
FlightGear allows you to control over 400 aircraft, small and large in a range of situations, types of weather, seasons, day and night cycle. This includes single-engine propeller aircraft, large 4-engine passenger liners, experimental aircraft, classic and vintage aircraft and helicopters. The FlightGear landscape covers the entire world and is downloaded as you fly. Visit any of the 20,000 airports with an accurate representation of airport buildings on many of the larger, international airports. Most popular flight control hardware, such as yokes and sticks are supported. Multiple monitor setup and multiplayer is also featured.
Additional information
Project
- Developer
- The FlightGear Developers
- Publisher
- Snapcrafters
- License
- GPL-2.0 (free software)What this license lets you do
- Homepage
- www.flightgear.org
- Latest release
- August 21, 2026 (1 month ago)Actively maintained · 4+ releases in the last year
- Release history
Last 4 releases
- 2024.1.7August 14, 2026
- 2024.1.6June 4, 2026
- 2024.1.5March 22, 2026
- 2024.1.4January 21, 2026
Install
- Size
- 1.5 GB
- Installs
- 117,154 on Flathub420 in the last 7 days
- Available via
- Flatpak · Snap (2) · Arch Linux (3) · Debian · Ubuntu · Fedora · openSUSE · Void Linux · Solus · Gentoo · Nixpkgs · Lutris
All 15 packagings
Flathub (Flatpak), Snap Store, Snap Store (Nightly build), AUR, AUR (AppImage build), AUR (Git build), Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Nixpkgs, openSUSE, Void Linux, Solus, Gentoo (Candidate build), Lutris (Linux build)
- Flatpak sandbox
- Some access
Runs in a sandbox, with access to some of your files or devices.
What it can access
- Can access all devices, including cameras and USB
- Uses the internet
- Plays and records audio
- Uses the older X11 display system, which doesn't isolate windows from each other