The following are

flight simulator A flight simulator is a device that artificially re-creates aircraft flight and the environment in which it flies, for pilot training, design, or other purposes. It includes replicating the equations that govern how aircraft fly, how they rea ...

software applications that can be downloaded or played for

free Free may refer to: Concept * Freedom, the ability to act or change without constraint or restriction * Emancipate, attaining civil and political rights or equality * Free (''gratis''), free of charge * Gratis versus libre, the difference betw ...

. Several items are outdated. Please notice 'free' is not the same as open source. Free games may have limited options or include advertisements.

Examples

* '' 1942: The Pacific Air War'' * ''

Ace Combat is an Arcade video game, arcade-style Combat flight simulation game, combat flight simulation video game series by Project Aces, an internal development team of Bandai Namco Entertainment, formerly Namco. Debuting in 1995 with ''Air Combat'' fo ...

'' * '' Ace Combat Infinity'' (shut down in 2018; no longer available) * '' Ace Combat: Assault Horizon'' (demo; no longer available) * '' Air Warrior'' * ''

B-17 Flying Fortress The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engined heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). A fast and high-flying bomber, the B-17 dropped more bombs than any other aircraft during ...

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Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer ''Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer'' is a flight simulation video game published by Electronic Arts in 1987. It was originally released as ''Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator''. Due to a legal dispute with Microsoft over the term "F ...

'' * '' CRRCSim'' * ''

DARWARS {{no footnotes, date=June 2016 DARWARS was a research program at DARPA intended to accelerate the development and deployment of military training systems. These were envisioned as low-cost, mobile, web-centric, simulation-based, “lightweight” ...

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Digital Combat Simulator ''Digital Combat Simulator'' (''DCS'') is a combat flight simulation game developed primarily by Eagle Dynamics and The Fighter Collection. Several labels are used when referring to the ''DCS'' line of simulation products: ''DCS World'', ''Modu ...

'' * '' Dogfights: The Game'' * '' Falcon 4.0'' (see ''FreeFalcon'') * ''

FlightGear ''FlightGear Flight Simulator'' (often shortened to ''FlightGear'' or ''FGFS'') is a free, open source multi-platform flight simulator developed by the project since 1997. David Murr started this project on April 8, 1996. This project had ...

'' * ''GeoFS'' * '' Gunship 2000'' * '' Linux Air Combat'' * ''Maestro'' * ''

MusicVR MusicVR is a virtual reality project created and developed by the musician Mike Oldfield. To date it has produced two standalone simulation games and inspired content for some of Oldfield's albums. As of January 2010 Tubular.net hosts the free down ...

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Microsoft Flight ''Microsoft Flight'' is an amateur flight simulation from Microsoft Studios (game studio), Microsoft Studios created as a spin-off of the ''Microsoft Flight Simulator'' series. The game is offered "free-to-play"; charging players for download ...

'' * '' Pie in the sky'' (game engine) * ''

Red Baron Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–750 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a sec ...

'' * '' Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War'' * ''

Second Life ''Second Life'' is a multiplayer virtual world that allows people to create an Avatar (computing), avatar for themselves and then interact with other users and user-created content within a multi-user online environment. Developed for person ...

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SGI Dogfight ''Dogfight'' is a demonstration program initially written by Gary Tarolli (later founder of 3dfx) at Silicon Graphics, Silicon Graphics, Inc in the summer of 1983. It represents landmarks in two key areas of Internet development: Computer game ...

'' * '' SimCopterssl'' * ''

Space Combat Space warfare is combat in which one or more belligerents are in outer space. The scope of space warfare includes ''ground-to-space warfare'', such as attacking satellites from the Earth; ''space-to-space warfare'', such as satellites attackin ...

'' * ''Top Gun'' (see: List of Top Gun video games) * '' Tres Lunas'' * ''

Virtual Military A Virtual Military Organization (VMO) is a dedicated hobby organization that uses simulation to model the operations of a military. Virtual Military Organizations (VMOs) generally have a presence on the internet, similar to real military organi ...

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War Thunder ''War Thunder'' is a 2013 free-to-play vehicular combat multiplayer video game produced by Gaijin Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Oculus, and Vive. It was first relea ...

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World of Warplanes ''World of Warplanes'' (''WoWp'') is a free-to-play aerial combat Massively multiplayer online game, massively multiplayer online (MMO) game developed by Persha Studia and published by Wargaming (company), Wargaming.net. The game was originally rel ...

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World War II Online ''World War II Online: Blitzkrieg'' is a World War II massively multiplayer online first-person shooter (MMOFPS) developed by Playnet, Inc.'s internal game studio, "Cornered Rat Software", and it was originally released on June 6, 2001 for Micr ...

'' * '' youbeQ'' * '' YSFlight'' * '' zeseay'' * Turboprop Flight Simulator

References

{{reflist Free flight simulators