The following are

flight simulator A flight simulator is a device that artificially re-creates aircraft flight and the environment in which it flies, for pilot training, design, or other purposes. It includes replicating the equations that govern how aircraft fly, how they rea ...

software applications that can be downloaded or played for

free Free may refer to: Concept * Freedom, having the ability to do something, without having to obey anyone/anything * Freethought, a position that beliefs should be formed only on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism * Emancipate, to procur ...

. Several items are outdated. Please notice 'free' is not the same as open source. Free games may have limited options or include advertisements.

Examples

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Ace Combat is an arcade-style combat flight simulation video game franchise published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, formerly Namco. Debuting in 1995 with '' Air Combat'' for the PlayStation, the series includes eight mainline installments, multiple spi ...

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Ace Combat Infinity was a combat flight simulation video game developed by Project Aces and published by Bandai Namco Games for the PlayStation 3. It is the sixteenth title in the ''Ace Combat'' series, and was released worldwide in May 2014. It is the first partial ...

'' (shut down in 2018; no longer available) * '' Ace Combat: Assault Horizon'' (demo; no longer available) * ''

Air Warrior ''Air Warrior'' was a multiplayer online combat flight simulation game launched by Kesmai in 1988. It was hosted on GEnie and used that service as a server for client software running on a variety of personal computers. It underwent continual imp ...

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B-17 Flying Fortress The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engined heavy bomber developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Relatively fast and high-flying for a bomber of its era, the B-17 was used primarily in the European Theater ...

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Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer ''Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer'' is an aircraft simulation computer game published by Electronic Arts in 1987. It was originally released as ''Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator''. Due to a legal dispute with Microsoft over the t ...

'' * '' CRRCSim'' * ''

DARWARS {{nofootnotes, date=June 2016 DARWARS was a research program at DARPA intended to accelerate the development and deployment of military training systems. These were envisioned as low-cost, mobile, web-centric, simulation-based, “lightweight” sy ...

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Digital Combat Simulator ''Digital Combat Simulator'', or ''DCS'', is a combat flight simulation game developed primarily by Eagle Dynamics and The Fighter Collection. Several labels are used when referring to the ''DCS'' line of simulation products: ''DCS World'', '' ...

'' * '' Dogfights: The Game'' * ''

Falcon 4.0 ''Falcon 4.0'' is a combat flight simulation video game developed by MicroProse and published by Hasbro Interactive in 1998. The game is based around a realistic simulation of the Block 50/52 F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighter in a full-scale mod ...

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FlightGear ''FlightGear Flight Simulator'' (often shortened to ''FlightGear'' or ''FGFS'') is a free, open source multi-platform flight simulator developed by the project since 1997. David Murr started the project on April 8, 1996. The project had its ...

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GeoFS GeoFS is a multi-platform browser-based flight simulator based on the Cesium WebGL Virtual Globe. The free map is based on images taken by the Sentinel-2 satellite while the HD map is from Bing Maps. The game features a variety of planes inclu ...

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Gunship 2000 ''Gunship 2000'' is a helicopter combat flight simulation video game developed and published by MicroProse as a follow-up to their earlier game ''Gunship''. It was originally released in 1991 for DOS; this version received an expansion in 1992. ...

'' * '' Linux Air Combat'' * ''Maestro'' * ''

MusicVR MusicVR is a virtual reality project created and developed by the musician Mike Oldfield. To date it has produced two standalone simulation games and inspired content for some of Oldfield's albums. As of January 2010 Tubular.net hosts the free down ...

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Microsoft Flight ''Microsoft Flight'' is an amateur flight simulation from Microsoft Studios created as a spin-off of the ''Microsoft Flight Simulator'' series. The game is offered "free-to-play"; charging players for downloading extra content, aircraft or s ...

'' * '' Pie in the sky'' (game engine) * ''

Red Baron Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a seco ...

'' * '' Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War'' * ''

Second Life ''Second Life'' is an online multimedia platform that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and then interact with other users and user created content within a multi player online virtual world. Developed and owned by the San Fra ...

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SGI Dogfight ''Dogfight'' is a demonstration program initially written by Gary Tarolli (later founder of 3dfx) at Silicon Graphics, Inc in the summer of 1983. It represents landmarks in two key areas of Internet development: games and multicasting, and ...

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SimCopter ''SimCopter'' is a 1996 flight simulator video game developed by Maxis. It puts the player into a 3D city. Like '' Streets of SimCity'', ''SimCopter'' lets the user import '' SimCity 2000'' maps into the game. It is also the first game to use ...

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Space Combat Space warfare is hypothetical combat in which one or more belligerents are situated in outer space. The scope of space warfare therefore includes ''ground-to-space warfare'', such as attacking satellites from the Earth; ''space-to-space warfare ...

'' * ''Top Gun'' (see:

List of Top Gun video games The list of ''Top Gun'' video games has several licensed video games based on the film series, which started with ''Top Gun'' (1986). ''Top Gun'' (Ocean game) The Ocean Software version of ''Top Gun'' was released for various home computer f ...

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Tres Lunas ''Tr3s Lunas'' is the 21st studio album by English musician and songwriter Mike Oldfield, released in June 2002 by Warner Music Spain. After his previous album ''The Millennium Bell'' (1999), Oldfield started work on his first release for Music ...

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Virtual Military A Virtual Military Organization (VMO) is a dedicated hobby organization that uses simulation to model the operations of a military. Virtual Military Organizations (VMOs) generally have a presence on the internet, similar to real military or ...

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War Thunder ''War Thunder'' is a free-to-play vehicular combat multiplayer video game developed and published by Gaijin Entertainment. Announced in 2011, it was first released in November 2012 as an open beta with a worldwide release in January 2013; it h ...

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World of Warplanes ''World of Warplanes'' (''WoWp'') is a free-to-play aerial combat massively multiplayer online (MMO) game developed by Persha Studia and published by Wargaming.net. The game was originally released in November 2013 in CIS countries, North Ameri ...

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World War II Online ''WWII Online'' is the very first massively multiplayer online first-person shooter (MMOFPS) ever created and holds three Guinness World Records. It is in active (continuous) development by Playnet, Inc.'s internal game studio, "Cornered Rat Soft ...

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YSFlight YSFlight is a Freeware, free, Open-source software, open-source cross-platform, multi-platform flight simulator, developed and published by Soji Yamakawa since 1999. Since its initial release, it has received annual updates, with the most recent ...

'' * '' zeseay'' * Turboprop Flight Simulator

References

{{reflist Free flight simulators