When comparing Minecraft: Education Edition vs FlightGear, the Slant community recommends FlightGear for most people. In the question“What are the best educational games on PC?” FlightGear is ranked 9th while Minecraft: Education Edition is ranked 26th. 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 Collaborative Multiplayer
Pro Code Connection
Can use ScratchX, Tynker, MakeCode, and custom providers to program for minecraft using text and/or visual block programming.
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 $5/yr
Con Need education account
This can be difficult for homeschoolers (though there is a process/workaround available).
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.