Flight Gear

[David M. Carney]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:33:08 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> I installed Flight Gear (in Universe).
> 
> I read on their site that it comes with 30 different planes, and one
> helicopter. But when I start it, it defaults to the usual little Cessna
> (like in MSFS) and I can't see anything in the menu that would let me
> select a different aircraft.
> 
> Am I missing something ? How to get more planes, or helicopters
> actually, as that more what I am interested in. ?
> 
> Are all these aircrafts in a separate package maybe ? Why didn't Ubuntu
> add extra aircraft ?? :-/
> 
> Also, the game keeps crashing (disappears from the desktop... ) usually
> after only a few minutes playing the game, with a "seg fault". Does
> anyone else experience the same ? :-/
> 
> And has anyone tried X-plane on Ubuntu ? They have just started
> releasing Linux versions now. The demo is over 300MB so I can't download
> it (don't have boradband, and th edownload keeps crashing after 30MB or
> so only :-/ ) to try it for myself.
> 
> Vince
> 
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>From a terminal type:

fgfs --help

All your answers are there.

David

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