What is the ORTS of the flightsim crowd?

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  • NW 2156
    2000 Post Veteran

    • Aug 2007
    • 2290
    • Carolina's

    #1

    What is the ORTS of the flightsim crowd?

    Are there any open source projects like ORTS in the flight sim community? I can't say I have ever had any interest in flightsim types. But, I would like to know if a community twice as large as this one has any on going project of the sort we have with ORTS?

    Robert
  • smiljacc18
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2008
    • 329

    #2
    I seem to remember a "project open skies" I think it's no longer in existence.Don't recall it's mission statement.

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    • baldwin
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      • Nov 1999
      • 6358
      • Chippenham, Wiltshire, UK.
      • ORTS

      #3
      Project Open Sky was a small group who made content for MSFS. The closest that the flightsim crowd has to open rails is a program called flightgear which does not use any MS content and has been ongoing for a fair number of years now.
      Beer is not a matter of life or death, it is much more serious than that.

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      • lindsayts
        Senior Member
        • May 2010
        • 194

        #4
        An open source flight sim is Flightgear try.........

        Free open-source flight simulator for Windows, macOS and Linux.


        While the actual program down load is small, the entire flightsim download is massive due to the quantity of scenery around, as a consequence a data DVD is availible. Correction, its either an 128gbyte USB stick or Blu-ray disk. The whole world is availible, as its open source the quality does depend on how much effort is put into content and of course on decent images being availible for the cockpit.

        Lindsay
        Last edited by lindsayts; 07-17-2016, 14:53.

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        • NW 2156
          2000 Post Veteran

          • Aug 2007
          • 2290
          • Carolina's

          #5
          Thanks for the information Lindsay.

          Robert

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