It’s been six months of FlightGear accepting donations on OpenCollective, we wanted to give an update on how it’s going. The most important thing is to say "thank you" to everyone who has donated, especially with a recurring donation! flightgear.org/blog/opencollective-six-months

We are pleased to announce version 2024.1.3 of our free open-source flight simulator FlightGear! This third release of version 2024.1 brings bug fixes and new features, with a focus on improving the user experience when installing or updating FlightGear. ✈ flightgear.org/blog/release-2024-1-3

Following the long awaited release of FlightGear 2024.1 last February, we are pleased to announce version 2024.1.2. This first point release brings bug fixes and new features to the stable version of our free open-source flight simulator.

Admire July's winning screenshot by Fahim! Featuring a mid-day Innsbruck departure, it demonstrates the HDR pipeline in the development version of FlightGear.

FlightGear will always be free to use, but the project does incur costs for maintaining infrastructure such as download servers and domains. To safeguard the long-term availability, we now welcome entirely optional donations through Open Collective.

FlightGear is now active on Bluesky! Follow us for updates, screenshots and news about our free open source flight simulator✈️