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Welcome to the FlightGear Flight Simulator project.
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The primary web page for this project is: http://www.flightgear.org





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For basic installation instructions see the "INSTALL" file.





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Before you can run FlightGear you will also need to download and





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install the "base" package which is a collection of textures, sounds,





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sample scenery, and other data files needed by the sim.





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For additional install help for specific platforms please browse the





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"docs-mini/" subdirectory.





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More complete documentation is available from our web page as a





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separate distribution.





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Please take a look at the "Thanks" file for a list of people who have





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contributed to this project.  If you have contributed something but





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don't find your name in this file.  Please send a polite reminder to





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http://www.flightgear.org/~curt





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For a summary of changes/additions by version see the "NEWS" file.





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This project is GPL'd.  For complete details on our licensing please





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see the "COPYING" file.





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For information on available mailing lists, mailing list archives, and





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other available source code and documenation, please visit our web





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site.





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FlightGear is a product of the collaboration of large international





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group of volunteers.  FlightGear is a work in progress.  FlightGear





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comes with no warrantee.  We hope you enjoy FlightGear and/or find it





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of some value!