Aircraft Flight simulator

[Chris Mohler]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:13 PM, elmo <elmo at ne.rr.com> wrote:
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>
> Using Synaptic Package Manager,  I tried installing something called ACM
> but all it displays looks like an airport runway but it shows no
> aircraft or any kind of activity.  From what I can tell it's some kind
> of Windows aerial combat program that is supposed to work in UBUNTU.
>
> Is there an aircraft  flight  simulator for UBUNTU where  you  have
> control  of  an aircraft  from  take off  to landing and possibly combat
> with another aircraft?

flightgear is in the repositories.  I don't think it has combat
though, and I haven't tried it in a year or so.  You will need a
decent 3D card for fg.

A quick search turned up these - I haven't tried any of them out though:
gl-117 - An action flight simulator
gl-117-data - Data files for gl-117
sabre - fighter plane simulator for svgalib
sabre-common - data for the SABRE fighter plane simulator
searchandrescue - fly aircraft to search (for) and rescue people in distress
xsabre - fighter plane simulator for X11

Chris