When comparing Endless Sky 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 Endless Sky is ranked 18th. 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 Open source
This game is free to play and distribute. It also has a large developer base that works to solve all issues. This also provides endless possibilities to expand the universe by adding new missions, alien species, planets, etc.
Pro Cross-platform
This games runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Pro Low system requirments
This game only requires 350 MB of RAM and 65 MB for storage.
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 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.