Oolite vs FlightGear
When comparing Oolite 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 Oolite is ranked 16th. 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 Non player centric
Space battles happen without the player starting them, or even being involved. Criminals and fugitives shoot at police. Police shoot at criminals.
Pro Improves on the Elite formula while not straying too far
Pro Lots of mods
Mods to customize the game's look and mechanics means that you can pretty much customize your gaming experience. Add new planets, station types, stories, and a whole lot more.
Pro Mods create missions, ships and equipment to totally change the difficulty
The mods make every ship from every movie and TV series available, which is fun.
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 Too addictive
This can be a serious time thief.
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.