Flight Simulators

Flight Gear Flight Simulator

• Flight Gear Flight Simulator -- We're writing our own. :-)
• SimGear - simulator construction tools. (alt)
• TerraGear - automated world scenery building tools. (alt)
• JSBSim Flight Dynamics Modeling Site - JSBSim is an object-oriented, multi-platform, flight dynamics model written in C++. It is one of the several ways to drive aircraft flight "math/physics" for FlightGear, but JSBSim also can be run in a standalone mode and is also being used for other projects. The JSBSim web site also strives to serve as a resource to flight simulation engineers, hosting and providing links to relevant technical papers and references to other sites.

General Flight Simulation

• Real-WX -- Real Time Weather for Flight Simulators.

• Flight Simulator Navigation
• Digital Flight email list archives
• Airport Database Explorer - A commercial application for browsing key information on over 13,000 airports from around the world.

X-Plane

• X-Plane by Laminar Research -- Official site.
• XPlane-News Archives
• XPlane-Tech Archives
• XPlane-Tech Archives (old list)
• XPlane-Chat Archives

747-400 Precision Simulator

• 747-400 PS-1 - Main site.

MSFS -- General

• Gabor's Links to the Flight Sim World
• Round Robin Flights. These flights will take you on some interesting routes past some of the better scenery available. I highly recommend them.

Commercial Web Sites (News/Portals/Message Boards/Ads/etc.)

• Flight Sim Central
• PC Aviator
• Micro$oft FS Page -- tips on flying, product news, faqs, etc.
• Fly Away Simulation - A community source of flight simulation downloads, news, reviews, information, and forums.
• SimRadar - A community source of flight simulation downloads, news, reviews, information, and forums.

Other Flight Sim Stuff

• X-Plane, by Laminar Research
• E-Flight -- Some general aviation stuff as well as some good flight sim stuff.

Flight Simulator Source Code (or at least free binaries)

• Flight Gear (of course)
• ACM -- Flight simulation for the X Window System.
• Eagles -- PC based Virtual Reality engine for terrain modelling.
• Vertigo Flight Simulator

Aviation & Flight Sim BBS's

• Aviation Simulation Magazine (Free!)

Flight Simulator Hardware

• EPIC Board -- Allows you to set up several analog joystick inputs and tons of buttons.