Browser Becomes Global Photo-Realistic Flight Deck

⊲ PCWorld ⊳ The article discusses GeoFS, a free flight simulator that offers a global environment created from up to date satellite images and geographic data. It is accessible on various platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS, and can be played directly in a web browser. The simulator features over 30 aircraft and navigation charts with 40,000 runways. It is built on Cesium, and offers global satellite imagery at 10m-per-pixel resolution with a paid HD upgrade unlocking high-resolution Microsoft Bing Maps. The author praises its physics realism, but notes the controls take some tweaking.
⊲ Image – GeoFS ⊳