X-Plane Flight Simulator For Linux

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 13, 2001 @08:59AM from the ich-fliege dept.

sho-gun writes: "It seems that Austin Meyer, creator of X-Plane, is going to be porting his simulator to Linux. X-Plane is an incredible flight simulator which models flight dynamics by using blade-element theory. Many big companies use X-Plane for development. Currently only the support programs (the programs that build the planes, scenery, airfoils) are available but the full application should be available soon, according to the website. Along side with the open-sourced Flightgear, this certainly is good news for flight simulator fans that use Linux."

1 of 155 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Yet another tool of terrorists... by drsoran · 2001-10-13 09:04 · Score: 2, Redundant

Along with PGP, flight simulators were used by terrorists in the horrendous attacks of September 11th. We should ban open source flight simulators unless they provide a special government backdoor to monitor who is using them and where they are flying in the virtual world.