Flight Gear 1.0 Download and Installation 

• Your First Flight

• Downloading Aircraft For FG 1

• Modifying Aircraft

• Creating New Aircraft

Installation Notes: Issues with Installation

There were issues with installation this time:

I have installed and run Flight Gear 1.0 on Linux and Windows systems in the past, without any major issues except for the .rgb files not working, and textures not showing up on the aircraft models and some of the scenery.

This time,  however,  there were major issues encountered when running Flight Gear:

WIndows 11

Flight Gear installed flawlessly however,for reasons unknown, and hosier a 100 frames per second frame rate, the simlaitr slows down inexorably. Come to thing of it, increasing the simulation speed may ifs the problems.  The last testing attempt though, showed it worked perfectly well, displaying all textures and graphics and at normal,  smooth speeds.

Linux Mint   Linux Mint 22.2 Zara

Obviously, the simulation had to be run in WINE. The option for natively compiling Flight Gear in Linux was strongly advised against by ChatGPT and seemed Tobe a reasonable caution given the problems encounter with the win32 installations.

The main problem was the white colored aircraft and non display of instruments, and transparent aircraft sections.  A few illustrations would suffice to show the prob,e\

Solution :

The final solution was to abandon the .ac format and convert the models to .3ds format, which can be easily edited on WIngs 3D.  The textures would not carryover and this was not tried in any case, nut materials were used for coloring and this was acceptable.  Instruments also wre a huge pregame these did not show at all, so the decision was made to crate te instrument in3d including ht numbers on the dial, and add these to the aircraft.  This proved to be advantageous int hat the instruments could be placed by hand in the 3d model and animated using the standee procedure for animation.  It is works but this is [aor of the project.  Once the models are complete then these can be hosted on a site for downloading and using and further modification.   It remainder be seen if th model can be added to the latest version of Flight Gear/

Standard Aircraft and Installation View Graphics Problems