distantbody writes "The flight sim project FlightGear has reached version 2.0. From the website: 'Highlights of this new version include: Dramatic new 3D clouds, dramatic lighting conditions, improved support for custom scenery, and many many new and detailed aircraft models.' Full list of improvements here. And of course the screenshots. The release coincides with the release of SimGear v2, the 'set of open-source libraries designed to be used as building blocks for quickly assembling 3d simulations, games, and visualization applications' on which FlightGear is based."<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/27/1010215/FlightGear-Reac hes-v20?from=rss"><img src="http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style= h0&sid=10/02/27/1010215"></a><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot .org%2Fstory%2F10%2F02%2F27%2F1010215%2FFlightGear-Reaches-v20" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"><img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"></a>
  
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