GeoFS vs FlightGear
When comparing GeoFS vs FlightGear, the Slant community recommends FlightGear for most people. In the question“What are the best free non-combat flight simulators?” FlightGear is ranked 1st while GeoFS is ranked 2nd. 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 You can access nearly every place on earth for free. You can also land at various airports all around the world
Pro Enjoy the huge multi-player program and get to fly in real life commercial traffic
Pro Free to use
Pro Cross-platform
Can be run on Linux, Mac, Windows and mobile.
Pro No need to download
Just pop up the website and you're ready to go!
Pro Have fun and fly in a wide variety of planes, helicopters, paragliders and even hot air balloons
Pro There's joystick support available
You can use the program with a joystick, which is available for you from major web browsers.
Pro Large community
GeoFS has a large community of enthusiasts following it. You'll get to interact and share tips with different people who share the same interests as you do.
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 Can be a bit glitchy
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.