What is The Flight Gear One Project?

The Flight Gear One Project was created for the purpose of creating a simpler development environment for creating and flying aircraft in a flight simulator environment.  Flight Gear 1 loads in 19 seconds.

The Flight Gear One has created a rapid development and prototyping environment for developing aircraft models quickly and easily and flying them in the simple environment and scenery of the base version.

The latest versions of Flight Simulator Flight Gear  offer vast improvements in graphics,  scenery and aircraft detail and realism, however, I find that version more difficult to use:

• Long installation times

• Large files for installation

• Long Start up times (19 seconds vs 45 seconds for 2026 version)

• Creation of aircraft takes time

As a Flight Simulator use this is sufficient , but with the Create - Test  - Modify - Test cycle with frequent changes to the model and the need to review theses sections quickly, the simpler and faster loading flight simulator version Flight Gear Version 1.0 comes out the clear leader, with an acceptable sacrifice of features.

The final version of the aircraft can then be added to the latest version of Flight Gear.  For example, the PA28 loads, but the throttle control does not seem to work. This most probably can be fixed.

7 January 2026