When comparing Pappu Pakia 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 Pappu Pakia is ranked 95th. 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 Good for quick play sessions
A quick game that is light on depth being casual game that one can jump in and out of with no issue.
Pro Easily played on any device
Pappu Pakia is an HTML5 game which means and there is no download required. Anyone can play it in an HTML5 compliant browser as well as it's own webapp from the Chrome Store (as long as one has Chrome or Chromium installed).
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.