General Dynamics F-16 for FlightGear flight simulator
Current FGAddon version: 3.22 Suitable for: FlightGear 2018.3 and above.
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon (nicknamed Viper by pilots) is a single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft in use by the United States Air Force and exported to many countries, becoming world's most numerous fixed-wing aircraft in military service. Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft. The Fighting Falcon has key features including a frameless bubble canopy for better visibility, side-mounted control stick to ease control while maneuvering, a seat reclined 30 degrees to reduce the effect of g-forces on the pilot, and the first use of a relaxed static stability/fly-by-wire flight control system which helps to make it a nimble aircraft.
Includes the following Aircraft variants:
- YF-16 Prototype
- F-16A Block 10
- F-16AM Block 20 (MLU)
- F-16C Block 30
- F-16C Block 32
- F-16CM Block 40 (CCIP)
- F-16CM Block 42 (CCIP)
- F-16CJ Block 50
- F-16CJ Block 52 (default version)
- F-16E Block 60
- F-16 Simplified (a simpler FDM, yet still complex)
Available liveries depend on chosen variant. Notice that the quality of liveries differ. Some liveries are fictional.
Beside from that, the variants also differ in engine specifics, FBW system, cockpit and aerodynamics. See manual.txt for further information. Weapons available and payload presets are mostly U.S. specific.
For the full list of contributors see authors.txt.
Hangar: https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/fgaddon/HEAD/tree/trunk/Aircraft/f16/
Wiki: http://wiki.flightgear.org/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_Falcon (not up-to date)
GitHub: https://github.com/NikolaiVChr/f16
Forum: https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2003
Discord: https://discord.gg/CJYTUAQ (development server)