When comparing Spring: 1944 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 Spring: 1944 is ranked 43rd. 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 Simple to learn
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 Playing with icons
The 1944 team seems to have gotten its inspiration, strangely, from SupCom, of all RTS games, as opposed to games like Blitzkrieg or Company of Heroes. Units are so tiny on the maps that most of your time will be spent playing with these units as icons as opposed to enjoying the visual effects and actual models.
Con No downloadable version on the official site
You must create an account, and log in to a game, in order to download it. This can be a huge set back for people who want to play lan, but don't want to log in on each computer to download, or simply don't have internet available at the playing spot.
Luckily there are other sites that host the actual download, where it can be downloaded without login.
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.