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<h2>FlightGear</h2>


<p><a href="http://www.flightgear.org/">FlightGear</a> is an open source, cross-platform flight simulator.</p>

<p>I first found out about it in mid-2005, from <a href="http://valgrind.org/">valgrind</a>'s website. It was after doing the valgrind's online survey at the time, I browsed around the site and found FlightGear, being under their "projects using valgrind" page.</p>

<p>I tried it out and it had surely brought back my interest into flying and flightsim, whereby in the old days I used to play with m$ flight simulator every now and then. Since then, apart from learning about flying and planes, I've also used FG to do random fun and hopefully useful stuff, as I absolutely love learning by doing.</p>

<p>I hang around <a href="irc://irc.flightgear.org/#flightgear">#flightgear on irc.flightgear.org</a> most of the time.</p>



<h3>Things I've done with FlightGear</h3>


<h4>FGMap</h4>
<a href="/flightgear/fgmap.html">FGMap</a> is a Google Map web app I wrote that shows in real time where FlightGear pilots are flying online on the FlightGear Multiplayer Server. It also has navaids lookup functionality. 
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<h4>MPstat</h4>
<a href="/flightgear/mpstat/htmls/">MPstat</a> is a FlightGear statistics tool for the multiplay server. It's a PERL script which reads and parses log files from the <a href="http://fgms.sourceforge.net/">FG MP server</a> and generate reports in XML. Along with XSLT and a stylesheet the report can be shown in HTML format. Update has stopped since 2010.
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<h4>FlightGear + Google Earth</h4>
When Google Earth first came out, it was amazing and very fun to play with. It's one of those things that you can (or at least I can) play with all day. Well, one day I've decided to <a href="http://pigeond.net/blog/2006/12/12/flightgear-google-earth-fun/">hook it up with FlightGear</a> and it turned out alright.

<h4>FGLive</h4>
<a href="/flightgear/fglive.html">FGLive</a> is a FlightGear Live CD I did, currently based on <a href="http://morphix.org/">Morphix</a>.
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<h4>Screen streamer</h4>
<a href="/flightgear/screenstreamer/">Screen streamer</a> is something I did to get FG to output its screen via the network, which can be used for making/capturing FG video or simply streaming it on the fly. It is a patch to FG source code.
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<h4>MPcam</h4>
MPcam is a FlightGear MP server live camera I setup using the screen streamer mentioned above. It allows you to watch people flying on the FlightGear multiplay server. More details on the <a href="/flightgear/screenstreamer/">screen streamer</a> page.<br><br>


<h4>FlightGear git repository</h4>
Like many developers, I used <a href="http://git.or.cz/">git</a> for source code management / revision control. I have setup a git repo for FG to make my life easier, and at the same time I could learn more about git as well. You can browse my git repos via gitweb at <a href="http://pigeond.net/git/">http://pigeond.net/git/</a>. I'm also running a git daemon so you can clone my repos, see the gitweb page for more details.<br><br>

The source code for FGMap and MPstat are there too. My screen streamer branch is also published there.<br><br>


<h4>FlightGear with Wiimote</h4>
We bought a <a href="http://wii.nintendo.com/">Nintendo Wii</a> quite a while ago. And like many other people, I had a go with using the wiimote with my computer and I'm able to use it as a wireless flight stick. For more info see <a href="http://pigeond.net/?cat=flightgear&amp;comments=fg-wiimote">here</a>, and here's <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=R1ylV8f1IHA">a video</a> of the demonstration.<br><br>


<h4>Hong Kong scenery</h4>
I started doing it wanting to make my birthplace better in FlightGear, and for myself to learn <a href="http://www.blender.org/">Blender</a>. Unfortunately I haven't gone very far with it. Additionally I discovered the existing terrain for Hong Kong in FlightGear needs fix up as well. So far I've done this <a href="/photos/flightgear/hk-sceneries/">one building</a>. Hopefully I'll get back to this project one day.
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