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The reason for changing to this system and getting rid of the old -console option, was to make the error reporting (STDERR) work properly. Īll of the flightgear and fgrun log messages will now apear in the 'DOS' window.

You can also start flightgear using the command fgrun in this 'DOS' box, or you can start with the newlauncher with the comand fgfs -launcher.

fgfsrc file needs to be disabled (I move it to another directory) when you use the launcher. fgfsrs options conflict badly with the new launcher, and the. fgfsrc file as described in the main documentation.

Type the command fgfs, followed by any of the normal fgfs arguments, such as -aircraft, -airport., and flightgear will run.

Typing the Dir command will show other programs, such as fgrun, that are contained in this directory. The directory will be the one containg fgfs.exe.

A black windows command box will open (still known by many as the DOS command window).

Wih the left mouse button held down select 'Open command prompt'.

Left click the File tab on the window showing the fgfs directory.

This is a simple way to open the folder that contails fgfs.exe.

Right-click the FGFS desktop icon and select 'open file location'.

To do this open the folder that contains fgfs.exe and right-click drag fgfs to the desktop.

Make a shortcut to FGFS on the desktop.

If you already have fgfs as a desktop icon, steps 2 and 3 speed things up a lot. I will detail all of the steps to help those who are not familiar with Windows and the command line.

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The full method that I use is as follows. To show the console it is now necessary to start from the command line. Note This article needs a few screenshots Running from a batch file (unless one puts a 'press any button to continue' trap at the end of the batch file) closes the window, and you don´t know what lead to the crash. Running flightgear from an already open command window has one small advantage - when flightgear exits (or crashes) the command window, complete with the log messages, stays open.

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This article will show how to show the FlightGear console on Windows. However, some users may still want the console to debug errors, etc. In FlightGear 2016.3, the console and -console option were removed. Article taken from also Howto:Understand console output.

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Want to see everything that's new? The full changelog can be found here, and you can download here. Nice to see they kept fighting them off and working to improve FlightGear freely for everyone. At times there has been companies coming along trying to rip it off entirely too, like VirtualPilot3D, ProFlightSimulator and others trying to sell copies of it under a different name.

What's impressive is that it's been going in some form since all the way back in 1997, and they just keep on improving all the tech behind the scenes. Since the last release there's various launcher improvements, tidal movement is in for the littoral areas close to shore, there's new AI models, updates to a lot of existing aircraft, updated translations, a thread-safe particle manager to reduce crash bugs and lots of other optimizations. Most people interested probably don't stick to the LTS versions, as the in between releases always have the exciting stuff. Developed by volunteers, they're trying to make the most advanced flight sim that's entirely free to use. This new build with FlightGear 2020.3 is what they're calling a 'Long Term Support' release, as they nowadays offer a full stable build and much more regular content updates.

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FlightGear is a rather advanced free, open source flight simulator that's very much alive and kicking with a big new release now available.