Category: Flight

The latest version of the open source FlightGear flight simulator has been released.   Version 2.6.0 includes a number of improvements primarily in the handling of AI type aircraft, making load times faster as well as the CPU cost per AI aircraft much lower. FlightGear Version 2.6.0 is available for free download and is available for all of the Major computing platforms.  You can download the version for your machine from the FlightGear Website at: http://www.flightgear.org For information about the other…

Laminar Research announced the latest version of their X-Plan App for the iPad today.  The latest version, Version 9.750 adds a new suite of airplanes to the application in preparation for their rollout of their latest version, X-Plane 10.  The new planes included in the 9.750 update are: F-16 Falcon fighter, JA-37 Viggen Swedish fighter (don’t go Friggin’ with a Viggen!), P-38 Lightning WW-2 twin tail (the “fork-Tailed Devil”), P-40 Warhawk (black-sheep!), Piper Cub (tail-wheel classic!), Robinson R-44 (best-selling helo……