When comparing Openspades vs FlightGear, the Slant community recommends FlightGear for most people. In the question“What are the best open-source games?” FlightGear is ranked 4th while Openspades is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose FlightGear is:
FlightGear has scenery that contains environments to fly in from the whole globe.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Minimalist looks
Pro Graphics
Pro Community
Pro Modding
Some servers add custom features to their servers, such as grappling hooks and mines.
Pro Worldwide scenery
FlightGear has scenery that contains environments to fly in from the whole globe.
Pro Free and Open Source
All code written for FlightGear is opensource and available for anyone to use.
Pro Crash animations in some aircrafts
Pro It has world-wide multiplayer
Pro Live cockpit
Pro A lot of aircrafts to add
Pro It has amazing graphics
Pro You can almost recreate real incidents
Pro No bugs
Cons
Con Hackers
Cheating can be a problem, especially on servers that aren't well moderated and don't use automated cheat detection systems.
Con Small userbase
Most servers tend to be empty. Generally only a few servers will have players.
Con Toxic Players
Warning: This game is a cesspool of toxic language.
Con Not as graphically advanced as commercial competition
Con Getting stuck upside down
After a crash a pilot may be stuck in an upside down position with no way to recover.