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GeoFS (previously known as GEFS-online) is a French multi-platform browser-based flight simulator based on the Cesium WebGL Virtual Globe. [2] The free map is based on images taken by the Sentinel-2 and NAIP satellite, while an enhanced version, also known as HD, gives you a 1 day free trial, and after the trial, it costs $9.99 per year.
The following are flight simulator software applications that can be downloaded or played for free. Several items are outdated. Please notice 'free' is not the same as open source. Free games may have limited options or include advertisements.
Combat flight simulation titles are more numerous than civilian flight simulators due to the variety of subject matter available and market demand. Many free flight simulators, such as the open source Linux Air Combat, Falcon 4.0, Digital Combat Simulator and Rise of Flight, can be downloaded for free off the Internet.
FlightGear started as an online proposal in 1996 by David Murr, living in the United States. He was dissatisfied with proprietary, available, simulators like the Microsoft Flight Simulator, citing motivations of companies not aligning with the simulators' players ("simmers"), and proposed a new flight simulator developed by volunteers over the Internet.
It is the first release in the Microsoft Flight Simulator series. [3] [4] [5] Flight Simulator II: Discontinued 1983–1987 Sublogic: Sublogic: Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, PC-98, Amiga, Atari ST, Tandy Color Computer 3: Single-player: Flight Simulator II is a video game written by Bruce Artwick and published by Sublogic as the sequel ...
YSFlight differs from other simulators, such as the Microsoft Flight Simulator series, in its intentionally low-detail graphical design. [3] This allows the simulator to be run by lower-end computers, with system requirements being much less than most other flight simulators. [4] It allows for to YSFlight clients to join a multiplayer server. [5]
Microsoft Flight Simulator, within PC as well as Xbox Series X and Series S, received "universal acclaim" from video game critics, according to review aggregator Metacritic. [88] [105] Within the site, the game is rated the third-best PC game of 2020, behind Half-Life: Alyx and Hades, [126] as well as the tenth most discussed game.
Flight simulator software is largely on PC, however mobile flight simulators are also increasingly popular, with Infinite Flight, X-Plane Mobile competing with the PC simulators. Some PC flight simulators can use mobile devices or additional PCs as additional interfaces for display and control, including the touch interfaces on smartphones .