![]() From a normal overflight altitude of about 6,000 to 7,000 feet, the city views generated from OpenStreetMap data look at least halfway realistic.įigure 8: The -launcher start option opens a convenient wizard that lets you select the airport, aircraft, and many other FlightGear settings. How about an afternoon flight over the beautiful scenery of the Blue Ridge Mountains in South Carolina? Enter ICAO Identifier 33A in the Location category and select the picturesque Fairview airfield. ICAO stands for The International Civil Aviation Organization, which – among other things – assigns globally unique codes to airports. This runway points, as its name indicates, in the direction of 320 degrees (northwest) that is straight to the Blue Ridge Mountains. You can choose the weather in FlightGear. We ordered a summer afternoon in the Environment section below Time & Date (Time of day: Afternoon, Season: Summer). In Weather, owners of newer computers can enable Advanced weather modeling. We disabled the Real-world weather option – it evaluates the weather data of a METAR report, a standardized weather report for airports. Instead we chose fair weather as the Weather scenario, to avoid cloud cover blocking our view of the landscape. If you have an Internet connection with at least one megabit bandwidth, you can select the default Download scenery automatically setting in the Settings section. In Multiplayer, you can also enable a connection to a FlightGear multiplayer server, which integrates other players' planes into your simulated world. The simulator is normally launched in full screen mode (Start full screen). The Renderer I would recommend is Atmospheric Light Scattering. This method calculates the light scattering in the atmosphere, which makes the simulation look far more realistic for the large visibility ranges of high-altitude flights. ![]() Owners of more-or-less up-to-date graphics cards can treat themselves to Anti-Aliasing 4x, which completely irons out the ugly jagged diagonal lines that otherwise appear.
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