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Aviation software for iMac

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sultanoflondon

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Hi all,

I am a keen aviator and I was wondering whether there were any good aviation games for Mac, for example Air Traffic Control simulator or any good flight simulation software, not X-Plane, not animated or anything like that.

It can be free or paid, on the Mac App Store, or anything else.


Thanks in advance.
 
Alfinator

Alfinator

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Dec 23, 2013
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arjunbendre said:
Hi all,

I am a keen aviator and I was wondering whether there were any good aviation games for Mac, for example Air Traffic Control simulator or any good flight simulation software, not X-Plane, not animated or anything like that.

It can be free or paid, on the Mac App Store, or anything else.


Thanks in advance.
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You have the X-Plane 10 as you mentioned above, which you will have to pay for. But I really enjoyed playing another Flight Sim called "FlightGear".



You should really check it out, not the top-notch graphics but they're still fine and it's really fun!:)
 
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sultanoflondon

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Dec 3, 2013
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Hi Alfinator

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated.

Wow! That's brilliant! An open-source flight sim for Mac?! That's awesome, thanks so much Sir!

I shall certainly try it out and post here about it!


Thanks once again!
 
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yjchua95

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Apr 23, 2011
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arjunbendre said:
Hi all,

I am a keen aviator and I was wondering whether there were any good aviation games for Mac, for example Air Traffic Control simulator or any good flight simulation software, not X-Plane, not animated or anything like that.

It can be free or paid, on the Mac App Store, or anything else.


Thanks in advance.
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FlightGear is super. Open source and permanently free, with worldwide maps and all sorts of planes. Beware, the torrent files for the entire complete package is massive. It's around 20-30GB.

There's also online multiplayer. Your call sign can be anything, but most people use tail codes such as G-BNLL or the infamous 9M-MRA. More creative ones use something like D-AFUQ (German registration) or a profanity hidden in the registration.
 
costabunny

costabunny

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May 15, 2008
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I too am gonna have a look at this. I tried world of warplanes,but i really wanted something I can play solo as well as online.

Should run nice on the new iMac when it arrives.
 
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sultanoflondon

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Hi all,

Flightgear was not very good, as it slowed down my iMac and completely terminated the internet connection.

I'm not sure as to whether it was the program, or whether a virus got in when I was downloading FlightGear, but when I removed FlightGear, did a TimeMachine rollback to before the program was downloaded, everything was fine again?
 
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yjchua95

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Apr 23, 2011
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arjunbendre said:
Hi all,

Flightgear was not very good, as it slowed down my iMac and completely terminated the internet connection.

I'm not sure as to whether it was the program, or whether a virus got in when I was downloading FlightGear, but when I removed FlightGear, did a TimeMachine rollback to before the program was downloaded, everything was fine again?
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It didn't slow down mine. Mine's butter smooth.

If it helps, I run it on an early-2011 MBP (2.3GHz quad i7, 16GB RAM, 1GB 6750M and 512GB SSD) and also a 27" iMac (3.5GHz i7, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD and 4GB GTX780M).
 
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sultanoflondon

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yjchua95 said:
It didn't slow down mine. Mine's butter smooth.

If it helps, I run it on an early-2011 MBP (2.3GHz quad i7, 16GB RAM, 1GB 6750M and 512GB SSD) and also a 27" iMac (3.5GHz i7, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD and 4GB GTX780M).
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Well, it didn't work on mine and I'm weary to try again, in case it damages the computer irreversibly.
 
GGJstudios

GGJstudios

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May 16, 2008
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arjunbendre said:
Hi all,

Flightgear was not very good, as it slowed down my iMac and completely terminated the internet connection.

I'm not sure as to whether it was the program, or whether a virus got in when I was downloading FlightGear,
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There are no OS X viruses in the wild. Did you download it from a reputable site?
 
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