More aircraft installations are in development. The C182 gained an excellent integration of the FG1000 glass-cockpit, as did the J3 Cub and the Diamond DA40.The A320 has been overhauled, with accurate simulation and display of the flight management systems.Keflavík International Airport (BIKF) is the featured airport for the release: due to its remote location in the north Atlantic, the long runways have been used by all kinds of aircraft over the years especially as stop-over for early transatlantic services, but also patrolling military aircraft and transports. Iceland seen from space (using EarthView imagery) FlightGear models several volcanoes with multiple levels of activity: Eyjafjallajökull which disrupted aviation in 2010, Surtsey, and the brooding, powerful, Katla. Iceland is the world’s newest country, if you’re speaking geographically: a land of ice and fire. To get started straight away, visit our download page. But we’d like to quickly share some highlights below. We’re going to take a proper tour around Iceland in another post, and detail some of the improved feature and aircraft over the next few months.
The Alouette III getting close to a volcanic plume.Īs always there’s also internal improvements to the flight models and other simulation systems, bug-fixes, and performance improvements. There’s many updated aircraft, visual enhancements and a new default airport/region: Keflavík (BIKF) in Iceland. After two years of work, the new stable release of the free open-source flight simulator FlightGear is finally here: 2020.3! It replaces 2018.3 as our supported, stable version.