Need to take to the skies? We can possibly help with that. Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator from IPACS recently quitely released a Linux version. They don't seem to have announced it in a news post but it's up and live on Steam right now. A reader emailed in about this, and the developer has confirmed it on their Steam forum.
Looks like quite a detailed flight sim too with a number of aircraft included like the A320, B737-500, F-15, F-18, Aermacchi MB-339, King Air C90 GTx, Learjet 45, ASG 29 and Swift S1 gliders and more. After being released in Early Access in 2016, then a full release in 2017 it's continued being supported for a long time now. Most recently, it had a big update adding in the EC135 helicopter along with a bunch of optimizations to the game.
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They actually asked for testers of it back in 2018, so it's good to see it actually made official now.
Features:
- Realistic flight physics
- Interactive Flight school for learning the basics of flying
- High resolution aerial images and over 200 airports for the South West of the United States
- World wide elevation and aerial images
- Display terrain features like mountains, lakes and cities for easy VFR navigation
- Route editor for easy flight planning
- Adjustable time of day
- Adjustable wind, clouds, visibility, thermal activity and turbulence
- Replay system
- Different view modes
- VR Support
You can buy Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator on Steam.
I wonder if all smaller non-combat focused FS developers consider the windows market lost due to the almighty FS2020?
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