Granted permission for the flightgear project to use some of the
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
Contributed to the HUD code.
+Emmanuel Baranger <>
+ Many, many very nice aircraft models.
+
Andrei Barbu "T"Eval" teval@myrealbox.com
Designed and implemented the current version of the FlightGear website.
system.
+Matthias Boerner <>
+ Coorganizer of the FlightGear booth at the annual LinuxTag event in
+ Germany.
+
+
+Thorsten Brehm
+ Thorsten provided the TCAS system and fixed an uncountable number of
+ bugs, closed memory leaks and helps creating new releases.
+
+
+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.
Threading support and threaded tile pager.
+Francesco Brisa <>
+ Scenery models and ground networks for Italian airports.
+ Scripts for automated source downloads and builds.
+
+
Bernhard H. Buckel <buckel@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Contributed the README.Linux
Co-Author of the "Getting Started Manual"
New instrument panel configurations
+Bertrand Coconnier
+ Contributed several bugfixes and improvements for the integration of
+ the JSBSim flight dynamics model
+
+
Dave Cornish <dmc@halcyon.com>
Created our new, super cool, runway textures.
Created some of our cloud textures.
http://www.isis.de/members/~odelise/progs/flightgear
+John Denker
+ Contributed bugfixes and improvements to the navigation and ATIS code.
+
+
+Martin Eschen <>
+ Helped enourmously toward finishing the full scale traffic demo at EHAM.
+
+
+Torsten Dreyer
+ Contributed the very nice Piper Seneca, closely modelled after the
+ real thing. Also added many other nice aircraft (such as the ogeL, also
+ closely modelled after the real thing), buildings, etc.
+ Creator of fgpanel. Code maintainer of weather, environment, autopilot
+ and many other core systems.
+
+
Dave Eberly <eberly@magic-software.com>
Contributed some sphere interpolation code used by Christian Mayer's
weather data base system. Go to Dave's web site. He has a ton of
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.
-Melchior Franz <a8603365@unet.univie.ac.at>
- Made that joystick high/low support for joystick hats.
- Created the led.txf font.
- Made some improvements of the telnet and the http interface.
+Thomas Forster <>
+ 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 <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>
Changes and updates for compiling on FreeBSD
+Ralf Gerlich <>
+ Technical Genius behind the Custom Scenery Project.
+ Current maintainer of TaxiDraw
+
+
+Anders Gidenstam <>
+ Added support for lighter than air vehicles to JSBSim.
+ Contributed simulation of wildfires and a basic system for dual control
+ of an aircraft over the multiplayer network.
+ Author of several airships and one aircraft.
+
+
Neetha Girish <neethagirish@usa.net>
Contributed the xml configurable HUD changes.
RedHat package building changes for SimGear.
+Csaba Hal�sz <>
+ 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
minor modifications were made.
Erik Hofman <erik@ehofman.com>
Major overhaul and parameterization of the sound module, to allow
aircraft-specific sound configuration at runtime.
- Irix port.
+ Did a lot of code improvements and bug-hunting.
+ Creator of most of the ground textures.
+ Maintainer of the F-15, F-16, F-104, T-37, PC-7, Fokker 50 and 100 models.
+ Keeps the Irix port current.
Localization support.
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.
+ Developed gear/ground interactions and added aerotow/winch
+ support to the YASim FDM
+
+
+Ove Kaaven
+ Debian packaging of SimGear/FlightGear
+
+
Richard Kaszeta <bofh@me.umn.edu>
Contributed screen buffer to ppm screen shot routine.
Rich has also helped in the early development of the Flight Gear "altitude
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
David Luff <david.luff@nottingham.ac.uk>
Contributed heavily to the IO360 piston engine model.
+ Created the ATC intelligent traffic subsystem.
+ Creator of TaxiDraw, a program to modify the taxiway layout
+ for FlightGear.
Lewis Magruder <blackhawk96@hotmail.com>
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>
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 script to turn fgfs scenery into beautifully rendered
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
the sim.
- Electrical system.
- Runway lighting.
+ Handles most parts of the regular scenery rebuild, including lots of
+ improvements of the vertex calculation code.
+ Added the nw PID based, configurable autopilot code.
+ Added the Electrical system.
+ Added Runway lighting.
Brian Paul
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 nice job populating the San Francisco bay area by adding a lot
- of static scenery.
+ 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.
+ For a long time built the FlightGear binary windows distributions.
+ Did a nice job populating the San Francisco bay area by adding a lot
+ of static scenery.
+ Maintainer of fgrun, the defacto launcher on windows and many other platforms.
+ Author of fgsd, a standalone scenery designer.
Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@games.no>
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.
+ Greatly contributed to the FlightGear community as a very active
+ first aid responder on the official Flightgear forum, as a forum
+ and wiki admin, and as the editor of the monthly FlightGear
+ newsletter.
+
+
+Gerard Robin <>
+ Many nice Aircraft models
+
+
Andy Ross <andy@plausible.org>
Contributed a new configurable FDM, "YASim", based on geometry
information rather than aerodynamic coefficients.
Added support for placing 2D panel objects in 3D space.
Modified the HUD code to make it more accurate and added 3D support.
+ 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>
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
It is unclear if this code will be used directly, but it certainly
Phil Schubert <philip@zedley.com>
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>
Project Bonanza - http://members.xoom.com/ConceptSim/index.html
-Martin Spott <Martin.Spott@uni-duisburg.de>
+Martin Spott <Martin@flightgear.org>
Contributed to the installation / user guide.
+ Coorganizer of the FlightGear booth at the annual LinuxTag event in
+ Germany.
+ Manages the "World Scenery" releases.
+ Maintains world's biggest repository and toolchain for free and
+ open map and scenery data at http://mapserver.flightgear.org/
+
+
+Jon Stockill <>
+ Maintainer of the object database.
Martin Dressler <dr@musicabona.cz>
Moon has correct phase and blends well into the sky.
Planets are correctly positioned and have proper magnitude.
Help with time functions, gui, and other misc stuff.
+ Added the AirTraffic module for scheduled AI airliners and other aircraft.
2D Cloud layers (nifty).
http://people.a2000.nl/dtals
+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
parameters from a file. These modifications were made as part of an
Ultra hires tiled screen dumps.
Contributed the initial 'goto airport' and 'reset' functions
Contributed the initial http image server code
+ Did the build instructions for OpenAL (and SDL) for Cygwin.
Roland Voegtli <voegtli@sanw.unibe.ch>
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
Boeing 737.
+ Implemented the AIModels subsystem (originally based on the ATC traffic code)
+ and extended it to support ships, aircraft, ballistic objects, thunder-storms,
+ and thermals.
+ Added a lot of updated to JSBSIm, esp. for the turbine section.
Ed Williams <Ed_Williams@compuserve.com>
and modular. Contributed many small fixes and bug reports.
Contributed the the pui property browser.
Contributed to the autopilot.
- Created several excellent 3D aircraft models, including the p-51 and
- Boeing 747.
+ Created several excellent 3D aircraft models, including the p-51,
+ Wright Flyer and the Boeing 747.
Jean-Claude Wippler <jcw@equi4.com>
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.
+ Did a lot of suggestions for better aircraft modelling, some of which
+ resulted in code changes to accomplish them.
+
+
+Innis Cunningham <innisc@hotmail.com>
+ Modelled the 737 and contributed to the T38.
+
+
+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.
+ Mathias is responsible for the transition to OSG and he added HLA support.
+
+
+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.
+
+Thorsten Renk <thorsten.i.renk@jyu.fi>
+ Created the local weather system with Thermals, Ridge lift and Wave lift
+ which creates an accurate meteorological simulation.
+ Added the Atmospheric light scattering (ALS) framework
+ (http://wiki.flightgear.org/Atmospheric_light_scattering)
+ Worked a quite a number of aircraft shaders like the interior shader,
+ rain shader and exhaust flume shader
+
+
Space Imaging, Inc http://www.spaceimaging.com/
Space Imaging has allowed us to use the images in their archive for
commercial and non-commercial use, provided the original image can't be
extracted from the textures.
- Some (if not all) of the best textures in use by FlightGear wouldn't be
- possible without the satellite images provided by them.
Airservices Australia
SkyscraperPage.com has allowed us to use their building diagrams to
make textures and 3d models of their buildings.
+http://sky.aw.net.ua/
+ The owner of this site has kindly allowed us to use potographs from this
+ site for cloud texturing.
+
WoodSoup Project http://www.woodsoup.org
[ FlightGear no longer uses woodsoup services, but we appreciate
version of FG would have been impossible.
+The following individuals have contributed to the scenery object database:
+ Martin Spott, Dave Martin, Thomas Foerster, Chris Metzler, Frederic
+ Bouvier, Melchior Franz, Roberto Inzerillo, Erik Hofman, Mike Round,
+ Innis Cunningham, David Megginson, Stuart Buchanan, Josh Babcock,
+ Esa Hyytia, Mircea Lutic, Jens Thoms Toerring, Mark Akermann,
+ Torsten Dreyer, Martin C. Doege, Alexis Bory, Sebastian Bechtold,
+ Julien Pierru, Bertrand Augras, Gerard Robin, Jakub Skibinski,
+ Morten Oesterlund Joergensen, Carsten Vogel, Dominique Lemesre,
+ Daniel Leygnat, Bertrand Gilot, Morten Skyt Eriksen, Alex
+ Bamesreiter, Oliver Predelli, Georg Vollnhals, and Paul Richter.
-NOTE:
-----
+For regional texturing, support by the following people and organization is
+gratefully acknowledged:
+
+ - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica (IBGE) for the
+ satellite images of the Brazilian cerrado:
+ http://downloads.ibge.gov.br/downloads_geociencias.htm
+
+ - Diogo Sergio for the image of the caatinga trees:
+ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caatinga_Xiquexique_pedras_01.JPG
-THIS DOCUMENT WAS INITIALLY WRITTEN BY
+ - Maria Hsu for the image of a caatinga tree:
+ https://www.flickr.com/photos/14323530@N05/2150992479/
-Curt L. Olson <curt@flightgear.org>
+ - Leonardo "Leguas" Carvalho for the image of the Ipe-Amarelo tree:
+ http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Ipe_detail.jpg
+ - Spoladore for the image of the Lixeira tree:
+ http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajueiro-bravo-do-campo#/media/File:Lixeira_do_cerrado_de_Mato_Grosso.JPG
+
+ - Otávio Nogueira for the image of a cerrado tree:
+ https://www.flickr.com/photos/55953988@N00/3896942038
+
+ - P199 for the image of Las Piñas City, the Philippines:
+ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Las_Pinas_City.jpg
+
+
+NOTE:
+----
-THE CONTENTS WERE LASTLY RESEARCHED AND UPDATED MARCH, 8 2000
+THIS DOCUMENT WAS INITIALLY WRITTEN BY:
+ Curt L. Olson <http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt>
-Oliver Delise <delise@mail.isis.de>
+THE CONTENTS WERE RESEARCHED AND UPDATED MARCH, 8 2000:
+ Oliver Delise <delise@mail.isis.de>
Updated 2001-12-11 by David Megginson, david@megginson.com
-Updated 2003-04-17 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 2007-05-16 for 0.9.11 release
+Updates 2015-06-15 by Thorsten Renk
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