# FGFS User Documentation

### The FlightGear Manual

This is designed to be "The Manual that comes with the Software." The PDF version is intended to be viewed or printed and has a very professional look. The html version is a quick conversion and may not be as nice in some respects as the pdf version.

- Download "The FlightGear Manual" (pdf)
- View "The FlightGear Manual" (html)

### FlightGear Quick Reference Guide

- FlightGear Short Reference (Adobe PDF)
- FlightGear Short Reference (html)

### Additional Documentation

- FlightGear FAQ
- Mini-HOWTO: 3D Aircraft Models in FlightGear
- Mini-HOWTO: Configuring Views in FlightGear
- FlightGear Wiki User Documentation

# FGFS Tutorials

Additional tutorials are always welcome. FlightGear has a zillion features that aren't immediately obvious. Tutorials can be a great way to point out some of the more subtle features and details of FlightGear.

- A basic flying tutorial using FlightGear.
- A Circuit in FlightGear uses over 20 screenshots to show how to fly the FlightGear Cessna 172 smoothly by concentrating on attitudes.
- FlightGear Flight School - A tutorial to walk you through the basics of flying an aircraft (set in the context of simulating all the procedures with FlightGear.)
- Envoyez-vous en l'air ! - A FlightGear tutorial in French.
- Building FlightGear with the free Cygwin compiler under Windows. Very detailed and well done. HTML Version. PDF Version.

# FGFS Papers and Presentations

Several papers have been published that center on or at least reference FlightGear. As we can provide copies or links, I will add them here:

- Here is a paper and handout presented at UseLinux 2004 by Alex Perry.
  The Paper.
  The Handout.
- Here are two papers presented at the European Space Agency ASTRA conference 2002 (ASTRA = Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation.)
  Landmark Recognition for Localization and Navigation of Aerial Vehicles
  Determination of Planetary Meteorology from Aerobot Flight Sensors
- FlightGear was presented at the May 7, 2002 LUGOD meeting in Davis, CA. You can view the meeting minutes. You can also view a collections of photos from the presentation. Also available are the presentation slides.
- AIAA 2002-0817 - Icing Encounter Flight Simulator - Written by Bipin Sehgal, Robert Deters, and Michael Selig.
- The FlightGear Flight Simulator History, Status and Future - [html] [pdf] - slides from Alex Perry's talk at LinuxTag 2001
- FlightGear visual scenery - [html] [pdf] - the slides from Alex Perry's talk at UKUUG Linux 2001 - Linux Developers' Conference
- Using PCs in Flight Simulation Research - Presented at a flight simulation conference, May 24 - 25, 2001. Moscow, Russia.
- Flight Gear - The Flight Simulator for free? - Written by Michael Basler, 1998.
- Flight Gear - noch (k)ein neuer Flugsimulator - Written by Michael Basler, 1997. Comment: This gives a really interesting historical perspective on how far this project has come since the early days.
  A nicely done human translation to english. (Rough Babel Fish translation to english)

# FGFS Development Docs

Here is a collection of documentation which attempts to describe the development side of Flight Gear.

### Airport / Nav Aids

- Robin Peel's AirNav format specification.

### Autopilot

- FlightGear's Configurable Autopilot System.
- [ old ] Altitude Hold Module
- [ old ] Heading Hold Module

### Flight Model

- Notes on/Summary of LaRCsim code
- Description of all the LaRCsim public variables
- The Official LaRCsim manual (postscript file)

### Portability

- Portability guide - notes to developers.

### Scenery

- FG Internal Coordinate Systems for Scenery
- Stars
- The Sky Dome (sky to haze blending, and dusk/dawn effects)
- Scenery Generation for Flight Gear (A brief overview)

### Time

- The Periodic Event Scheduler

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### Latest Version

v2.0.0 - 18 Feb 2010

A new major update of the FligtGear simulator. Please check the readme

### Notam

Would all pilots try and avoid mpserver02 as its often overloaded.