Arch Linux (recommended)

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

Install

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

About this data

Sources
21 independent sources agree
Catalog data as of
October 12, 2026
How each source lists it (15)
SourceNameVersionBuilt byLicenseDescription
Flathub (Flatpak)FlightGear2024.1.7Official buildGPL-2.0Flight simulator
Snap StoreFlightGear2020.3.8—GPL-2.0FlightGear
Snap Store (Nightly build)FlightGear2024.1.5—GPL-2.0FlightGear
AURflightgear2024.1.7-1—GPL-2.0-or-laterAn open-source, multi-platform flight simulator
AUR (AppImage build)flightgear-appimage2024.1.7-1Community repackGPLAn open-source, multi-platform flight simulator. AppImage release.
AUR (Git build)flightgear-git2024.1.0r16085.1757b1d5b-5—GPLAn open-source, multi-platform flight simulator
Debianflightgear1:2020.3.19+dfsg-1Distribution build—Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Ubuntuflightgear1:2024.1.4+dfsg-2Distribution build—Flight Gear Flight Simulator
FedoraFlightGear2024.1.6Distribution buildGPL-2.0-or-laterThe FlightGear Flight Simulator
Nixpkgsflightgear2024.1.7Distribution buildGPL-2.0-or-laterA free and highly sophisticated flight simulator
openSUSEFlightGear2024.1.7Distribution buildGPL-2.0-onlyFlight Simulator
Void Linuxflightgear2024.1.3_1Distribution buildGPL-2.0-or-laterSophisticated flight simulator
Solusflightgear2024.1.1Distribution buildGPL-2.0-or-laterA free and highly sophisticated flight simulator
Gentoo (Candidate build)flightgear2024.1.7Distribution buildGPL-2.0-onlyOpen Source Flight Simulator
Lutris (Linux build)FlightGear———FlightGear is an open-source flight simulator.

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Add-ons

Components (5)
  • flightgear-data — The FlightGear base package contains the necessary data files to run FlightGear (AUR, Fedora, openSUSE, Void Linux, Solus, Gentoo)
  • flightgear-data-ai — FlightGear Flight Simulator -- standard AI data (Debian, Ubuntu)
  • flightgear-data-all — FlightGear Flight Simulator - virtual package (Debian, Ubuntu)
  • flightgear-data-base — FlightGear Flight Simulator -- base files (Debian, Ubuntu)
  • flightgear-data-models — FlightGear Flight Simulator -- standard models (Debian, Ubuntu)