-A very special thanks is due to the following people and groups.
+
Note: as hard as we've tried, it is impossible to perfectly maintain
this file. If you are aware of someone who you think should be
sound effects from their site.
+Syd Adams:
+ Added clipping to 2d instruments. Added volume control to ATC-chatter.
+ Created and maintain: DHC2, B1900D, Aerostar 700, S76C+ helicopter,
+ Cessna Citation Bravo & CitationX, A6M2 'Zero'. Assisted with Cessna
+ Citation II with Curt and 777-200 with Justin Smithies.
+
+
+Mark Akermann <flightgear@akermann.org>
+ Redone sun code. The sun now consists of three textures with individual
+ colors which are calculated based on the effect of light scattering.
+ This is accomplished by using various environmental data and by
+ calculating the distance the light travels through the atmosphere.
+
+
Raul Alonzo <amil@las.es>
Mr. Alonzo is the author of Ssystem and provided his kind permission
for using the moon texture. I also used parts of his code as a template
Michele America <nomimarketing@mail.telepac.pt>
Contributed to the HUD code.
+Emmanuel Baranger <>
+ Many, many very nice aircraft models.
-Andrei Barbu "T"Eval" teval@myrealbox.com
+Andrei Barbu <andrei@0xab.com>
Designed and implemented the current version of the FlightGear website.
Also contributed a first stab at a config file/command line parsing
system.
+Matthias Boerner <>
+ Coorganizer of the FlightGear booth at the annual LinuxTag event in
+ Germany.
+
+Alexis Bory
+ Very nice models, including the F14-B.
Jim Brennan <jj@kingmont.com>
Provided a big chunk of online space to store USA scenery for Flight Gear.
Many C++ style, usage, and implementation improvements.
STL portability, tons o' stuff. :-)
Threading support and threaded tile pager.
+ Initiate the fgrun project
+
+Francesco Brisa <>
+ Scenery models and ground networks for Italian airports.
Bernhard H. Buckel <buckel@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Founder of the FlightGear MultiPilot Project :
http://www.isis.de/members/~odelise/progs/flightgear
+Jean-Francois Doue
+ Vector 2D, 3D, 4D and Matrix 3D and 4D inlined C++ classes. (Based on
+ Graphics Gems IV ed. Paul S. Heckbert)
+ http://www.animats.com/simpleppp/ftp/public_html/topics/developers.html
+
+Torsten Dreyer
+ Contributed a very nice Piper Sceneca, closely modelled after the
+ real thing.
+ Many other nice aircraft, buildings, etc etc.
Dave Eberly <eberly@magic-software.com>
Contributed some sphere interpolation code used by Christian Mayer's
really useful looking code available there.
http://www.magic-software.com
-
-Jean-Francois Doue
- Vector 2D, 3D, 4D and Matrix 3D and 4D inlined C++ classes. (Based on
- Graphics Gems IV ed. Paul S. Heckbert)
- http://www.animats.com/simpleppp/ftp/public_html/topics/developers.html
-
+Martin Eschen <>
+ Helped enourmously toward finishing the full scale traffic demo at EHAM.
Francine Evans <evans@cs.sunysb.edu>
Wrote the @#$@#$@% GPL'd tri-striper we use and "love". :-)
for FS98. They are pretty cool and Oscar was happy to contribute
them to our little project.
+Detlef Faber
+ Many WWII era aircraft.
+
+
+Leidson Campos A. Ferreira <leidson@planetamessenger.org>
+ Rewrote the Jpeg screen httpd streaming (--jpg-httpd option)
+
+Olaf Flebbe
+ Improved the build system for Windows and provided pre-built
+ dependencies.
Bruce Finney <bfinney@gte.net>
MSVC5 compatibility.
+Thomas Förster <>
+ Updates to the AI system, including the Dykstra route finding algorithm,
+ adding a performance class, and many code clean-ups.
+ Co-organizer of the annual LinuxTag booth.
+
-Melchior Franz <a8603365@unet.univie.ac.at>
- Made that joystick high/low support for joystick hats.
- Nasal-ified the Saitek Cyborg Gold 3D (USB) joystick which now forms
- the basis of a lot of porgrammable joysticks.
- Created the led.txf font.
+Melchior Franz <mfranz@aon.at>
+ Reworked the joystick driver detection code, added high/low support for
+ "hats". Nasal-ified the Saitek Cyborg Gold 3D (USB) joystick which now
+ forms the basis of a lot of programmable joysticks.
Ruthlessly hunted down memory leaks in FlightGear, SimGear, and JSBSim.
Maintains the only fully working helicopter model in FlightGear (Bolkow 105).
+ Made the GUI code fully XML configurable and added support for themes,
+ reworked property browser, route manager and several other dialogs.
+ Wrote Dynamic Cockpit View, Fly-By view and lots of other Nasal code.
+ Implemented Nasal "listeners".
Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler <zlib@gzip.org>
Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
Changes and updates for compiling on FreeBSD
+Ralf Gerlich <>
+ Technical Genius behind the Custom Scenery Project.
+ Current maintainer of TaxiDraw
+
+Anders Gidenstam <>
+ Support for Lighter than Air vehicles.
+ Author of the ZeppelinNT.
Neetha Girish <neethagirish@usa.net>
Contributed the xml configurable HUD changes.
Habibie <habibie@MailandNews.com>
RedHat package building changes for SimGear.
+Csaba Halász <>
+ Many bugfixes and code checking.
+
+Ampere Hardraade <>
+ Many detailed 3D models of aircraft, including the MD11, and several
+ Airbuses.
+
+Brett Harrison <>
+ Ground networks for various airports.
+ Most of the liveries for the new C172p by HHS.
+ AI Repaints for several 737's and C172's
Dave Haskell <dave@haskell.demon.co.uk>
Original exterior textures for the Cessna 310 U-3A model. Only a few
the flight model. Bruce has patiently answered my many, many questions.
http://dcb.larc.nasa.gov/www/DCBStaff/ebj/ebj.html
+Ron Jensen
+ Contributed to the piston engine code in JSBSim.
+
+
+Maik Justus <fg@mjustus.de>
+ Developed YASim's helicopter/rotor logic.
+ Implemented aerotowing, water plane and anchor support for YASim, and
+ made its gear aware of the surface material.
+ Wrote the Bo105 helicopter FDM configuration file.
+
+
+Ove Kaaven
+ Debian packaging of SimGear/FlightGear
+
Richard Kaszeta <bofh@me.umn.edu>
Contributed screen buffer to ppm screen shot routine.
Rich's Homepage: http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
+Vassilii Khachaturov <vassilii@tarunz.org>
+ Support of navaids as autopilot waypoints.
+ Switching the tower view to a different tower at any time.
+ Various code, GUI, and documentation fixes and updates.
+
+
Tom Knienieder <tom@knienieder.com>
Ported Steve's Audio library first to OpenBSD and IRIX and
after that also to Win32
Reigning list admin.
Provided man pages.
Self-proclaimed code janitor.
- FAQ maintainer.
+ Has been maintaining FAQ for some years.
+
+
+Tim Moore <>
+ Many innovations to the OpenSceneGraph based graphics system.
+ Counseling of other developers toward learning OSG
+ Maintaing a GIT repository containing a mirror of FlightGear's
+ source code, speficially for bugfix releases.
Anders Morken <amrken@online.no>
Author of GNU dbm. gdbm is a set of database routines that use
extendible hashing and works similar to the standard UNIX dbm routines.
+Tatsuhiro Nishioka
+ Maintainer of the Mac port.
+ Contributed some very nice Japanese aircraft models.
Alexei Novikov <anovikov@heron.itep.ru>
Created European Scenery
Contributed a first draft of a scenery creation howto.
-Curt Olson <curt@flightgear.org>
+Curt Olson <http://www.flightgear.org/~curt>
Curt is responsible for overall project and source code management.
He has his hands in many of the areas, but is primarily responsible
for the scenery subsystem, as well as much of the infrastructure in
Contributed code to more accurately model VSI, DG, Altitude.
Contributed to the Install and Getting Started manual.
+Pigeon <>
+ Developed the multiplayer network infrastructure.
Friedemann Reinhard <mpt218@faupt212.physik.uni-erlangen.de>
Contributed beginnings of a textured instrument panel.
-Frederic Bouvier <frbouvi@wanadoo.fr>
- Added French language support
- Keeps FlightGear MSVC compatible.
- Did a number of code changes to improve the animation code.
- Added a number of animations that improves the visual system quite a lot.
- Did a nice job populating the San Francisco bay area by adding a lot
- of static scenery.
+Frederic Bouvier <fredfgfs01@free.fr>
+ Keeps FlightGear MSVC compatible.
+ Did a number of code changes to improve the animation code.
+ Added a number of animations that improves the visual system quite a lot.
+ Did a nice job populating the San Francisco bay area by adding a lot
+ of static scenery.
+ Builds the FlightGear binary windows distributions.
+ Maintainer of fgrun, the defacto launcher on windows and many other platforms.
+ Author of fgsd, a standalone scenery designer.
+ Provides regular binary snapshots of flightgear and it's related projects for
+ the windows community.
+
Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@games.no>
Patch to support a first joystick with more than two axes.
World scenery based on vmap0 data.
+Gijs de Rooy <>
+ Contributed some very nice building models, including a very
+ detailed layout of the Amsterdam airport terminals, and many
+ downtown buildings.
+ Redid the Boeing 747-400 3D model
+ Very active first aid responder on the official Flightgear
+ forum.
+
+Gerard Robin <>
+ Many nice Aircraft models
Andy Ross <andy@plausible.org>
Contributed a new configurable FDM, "YASim", based on geometry
Modified the UI code to allow a far more flexible grouping system.
Added the Nasal scripting language and added FlightGear integration.
-
+Brian Schack <>
+ Current maintainer of Atlas, the moving map program for FlightGear
+
Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se>
Mr. Schlyter provided Durk Talsma with all the information
he needed to write the astro code. Mr. S. is also willing
to answer astro-related questions whenever one needs to.
http://welcome.to/pausch
+Christian Schmitt <>
+ Detailed Frankfurt airport buildings.
+ Contributions to the custom scenery project.
Chris Schoeneman <crs@millpond.engr.sgi.com>
Contributed some 3d sound playing code for Irix, Win32, and Linux
Contributed various textures and engine modelling.
http://www.zedley.com/Philip/index.htm
+Heiko Schulz <>
+ Contributed AI traffic for EDDF
+ EDDF Night lights
+ ground networks
+
Jonathan R Shewchuk <Jonathan_R_Shewchuk@ux4.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
Author of the Triangle program. Triangle is used to calculate the
Martin Spott <Martin.Spott@uni-duisburg.de>
Contributed to the installation / user guide.
+ Coorganizer of the FlightGear booth at the annual LinuxTag event in
+ Germany.
+ Manages the "World Scenery" releases.
+Jon Stockill <>
+ Maintainer of the object database.
Martin Dressler <dr@musicabona.cz>
Created some outstanding panel instrumentation textures
Planets are correctly positioned and have proper magnitude.
Help with time functions, gui, and other misc stuff.
2D Cloud layers (nifty).
- http://people.a2000.nl/dtals
+ Added the AirTraffic module for scheduled AI airliners and other aircraft.
+ Full scale AI traffic demo for EHAM.
+ Current FlightGear release manager.
+
+Gabor Toth <>
+ Contributed some Livery repaints for AI Aircraft
+ Contributed many ideas leading towards the Traffic Manager II format
+ Runs FGTracker, an online flight tracking service for FlightGear
+James Turner <>
+ Many code cleanups of the internal structure of the airport database,
+ runway parsing, route management.
+ Is currently working on adding flightmanagement support.
UIUC - Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
Contributed modifications to LaRCsim to allow loading of aircraft
Provides MacOS-specific info in the docs.
-Davud Culp <davidculp2@attbi.com>
+David Culp <davidculp2@attbi.com>
Changed the layout of the conbtrolls section and added a great number
of extra controls which will prove to be usefull no and for the future.
Contributed a number of aircraft configuration files, including a T-38 and
X/MIT-style license. Please see the following URL for more info:
http://www.equi4.com/metakit
+Holger Wirtz <>
+Author of FGCom, a voice communication program intented for FlightGear
+multiplayer/ATC.
John Wojnaroski <castle@mminternet.com>
Open Glass Cockpit project
3d clouds
+Marcus Zojer <>
+ Contributed a B1B aircraft model.
+
Lee Elliot <leee@spatial.freeserve.co.uk>
Author of the YF-23, A-10, Ann225, B-52 and TSR-2 models.
Vivian Meazza <vivian.meazza@lineone.net>
Added a number of excellent aircraft models including the Hawker Hunter
and Seahawk.
+ Provided realistic wind, gravity and drag calculations for AIBallistic models,
+ as well as terrain intersections (impacts) of submodels.
+ Added the Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System and AI code for AICarrier and
+ AIShip, and implemented the TACAN navigation instrument
+
+
+David Culp <davidculp2@comcast.net>
+ Added the AI model and scenario code which allows non interactive models
+ (like aircraft, ships, ballistic models, storms and thermals) to move
+ around the scenery in a predefined way. Every model can have it's own
+ special characteristics. The thermal model for instance is a non-visible
+ model that creates an updraft around it's center.
+
+
+Mathias Fröhlich <Mathias.Froehlich@gmx.net>
+ Implemented the groundcache code which made it possible for aircraft
+ to follow the ground precisely and, as a result, made it possible to
+ land on aircraft carriers.
+ Modified YASim, JSBSim and LaRCsim to support the groundcache code.
+ Reorganized the code to eliminate the viewer jitter for close by objects.
+
+
+Harald Johnsen <hjohnsen@evc.net>
+ Added a new 3D cloud implementation which also works on big-endian machines.
+ This code allows for clouds of any types and any shapes (and even deformation
+ while moving).
+ Implemented volumetric shadowing.
+
+
+Roy Vegard Ovesen <rvovesen@tiscali.no>
+ Implemented the KAP140 autopilot.
+ Added a generic, XML configurable, autopilot framework.
+ Added an Altitude encoder.
+ Added a transponder.
+ Made the instruments code much more configurable, it is now possible to only
+ include instruments that are actually present.
+ Added several high level, configurable filter implementations for use by
+ autopilot designers.
+
+
+Stuart Buchanan <stuart_d_buchanan@yahoo.co.uk>
+ Substantial additions to the Getting Started Manual
+ Enhancements to the Cessna-310 3d model.
+ Added a generic yoke model, a generic throttle quadrant model and a
+ generic pedal set model.
+ OSG based three 3D clouds.
+ Forum moderator.
+
+
+Stefan Seifert <nine@detonation.org>
+ Added the save-on-exit option to save the user preferences at program exit.
Space Imaging, Inc http://www.spaceimaging.com/
THIS DOCUMENT WAS INITIALLY WRITTEN BY
-Curt L. Olson <curt@flightgear.org>
+Curt L. Olson <http://www.flightgear.org/~curt>
THE CONTENTS WERE LASTLY RESEARCHED AND UPDATED MARCH, 8 2000
Updated 2001-12-11 by David Megginson, david@megginson.com
-Updated 2003-04-17 by Erik Hofman, erik@ehofman.com
-Updated 2004-06-01 by Erik Hofman, erik@ehofman.com
+Updated 2003-04-17,
+Updated 2004-06-01,
+Updated 2005-04-02 by Erik Hofman, erik@ehofman.com
+Updated 2009-02-02 by Durk Talsma
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