What is The Flight Gear One Project?

The Flight Gear One Project was created for the purpose of creating a simple development environment for creating and flying aircraft. 

Flight Gear 1 loads in 19 seconds.

The Flight Gear One has created a rapid development and prototyping environment for modifying and developing aircraft models quickly and easily and flying them. The default scenery  consists of the San Francisco area with airports San Francisco International and Oakland International as well as Half Moon Bay (KHAF).

The latest versions of Flight Simulator Flight Gear  offer vast improvements in graphics,  scenery and aircraft detail and realism, however:

• Long installation times

• Aircraft files are large (100mb or so) 

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

• Creation of aircraft takes time

As a Flight Simulator this is sufficient , and with the Create - Test  - Modify - Test cycle with frequent changes to the model and the need to review these 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 when added to the new Flight Gear, loads, but the throttle control does not seem to work. This most probably can be fixed.

7 January 2026 - 20 Jan 2026 -