FlightGear for Mac
Open source flight simulator.
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FlightGear overview
FlightGear is an Open Source, cross-platform, flight simulator. The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated flight-simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, for the development and pursuit of other interesting flight-simulation ideas, and as an end-user application.
The FlightGear base package includes only a few representative aircraft. Download more aircraft here.
What's new in version 2024.1.7
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an out-of-bounds issue in the decoding of multiplayer positions (#3472, !534, @RichardH)
- Fixed an issue which made aircraft carriers not appear after enabling a scenario (#3388, !530, @RichardH)
- Fixed a crash when closing many property channels (#3499, !550, @zakalawe)
- Fixed a crash when changing radio frequencies while using FGCom (#3069, !553, @zakalawe)
- Fixed a crash in the voice manager on shutdown (#3498, !554, @zakalawe)
- Fixed an issue where Canvas images where mipmapped, causing excessive log messages which slowed down the simulator (#51, !322, @zakalawe)
- Fixed a race condition in TerraSync (#52, !332, @zakalawe)
- Fixed an issue where advanced weather does not reset properly when opening/closing the weather options dialog (#3338, !310, @zakalawe)
Misc.:
- Updated the Cessna 172P to fix various issues and make the battery capacity dependent on its temperature (!303)
- Updated Expat from 2.4.4 to 2.8.2 (!336, @zakalawe)
FlightGear for Mac
Free
In English
Version 2024.1.7
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Jan 24, 2026
Version: 2024.1.4
don't bother. Tried current 2024.1.4 release on both MacMini 2018 Intel and Mac Studio 2023 Apple Silicon. On lowest video settings, horribly slow and stuttering. ☹️ Cockpit instruments do not render, simply black empty space where controls should be, so can't even see any information at all. Even on Windows with decent high end PC hardware, really not that great. If I'm Windows and serious about a flight sim, I"d spend the money and get XPlane or Microsoft Flight sim.
Jan 4, 2021
Version: 2020.3.5
I've downloaded both FlightGear-2020.3.4 & 2020.3.5. When I tried to open the dmg I got this message from both versions. The following disk images couldn't be opened. Reason no mountable file systems. I tried to contact the developer thru his email address. But it came back as address unknown.
Has anyone else had this problem with these version?
Jun 9, 2020
Version: 2019.1.1
would be good if it worked crashes everytime on El Capitain 10.11.6
Jun 24, 2019
Version: 2018.3.2
Je suis incapable d'ouvrir l'application. Si je clic sur le bouton "FLY" l'application disparait de mon écran. Je vais essayer de re télécharger l'app à nouveau!
(Translated by MU) I am unable to open the application. If I click on the "FLY" button the application disappears from my screen. I will try to re download the app again!
(Translated by MU) I am unable to open the application. If I click on the "FLY" button the application disappears from my screen. I will try to re download the app again!
