Welcome to the FlightGear Flight Simulator project.

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The primary web page for this project is: http://www.flightgear.org



For basic installation instructions see the "INSTALL" file.



Before you can run FlightGear you will also need to download and

install the "base" package which is a collection of textures, sounds,

sample scenery, and other data files needed by the sim.



For additional install help for specific platforms please browse the

"docs-mini/" subdirectory.



More complete documentation is available from our web page as a

separate distribution.



Please take a look at the "Thanks" file for a list of people who have

contributed to this project.  If you have contributed something but

don't find your name in this file.  Please send a polite reminder to

http://www.flightgear.org/~curt



For a summary of changes/additions by version see the "NEWS" file.



This project is GPL'd.  For complete details on our licensing please

see the "COPYING" file.



For information on available mailing lists, mailing list archives, and

other available source code and documenation, please visit our web

site.



FlightGear is a product of the collaboration of large international

group of volunteers.  FlightGear is a work in progress.  FlightGear

comes with no warrantee.  We hope you enjoy FlightGear and/or find it

of some value!