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The advent of the Internet in the mid-1990s enabled users of modern flight simulators to fly together using multiplayer functionality. In 1997, SquawkBox [25] was created by Jason Grooms as an add-on for Microsoft Flight Simulator 95, enhancing the built-in multiplayer features to allow large numbers of players to connect to the game.
International Virtual Aviation Organisation VZW (IVAO) is a non-profit association which operates a free-of-charge online flight-simulation network. [4] Following free registration users can connect to the IVAO Network (IVAN) either as a virtual air traffic controller or as a virtual pilot and engage and interact with each other in a massively multiplayer environment utilising real-world ...
Pilots can now fly online using networks such as VATSIM, IVAO or Virtual Skies. While connected to the network, pilots can see other aircraft, hear and respond to Air Traffic Control and see weather conditions that parallel the real-world weather at their plane's location. Using these services, most virtual airlines regularly host online events ...
Virtual flight networks such as IVAO, VATSIM, and Pilot Edge as well as Virtual Skies, and Mindstar Aviation's AirspaceVR [36] use special, small add-on modules for Flight Simulator to enable connection to their proprietary networks in multiplayer mode, and to allow for voice and text communication with other virtual pilots and controllers over ...
FlightGear started as an online proposal in 1996 by David Murr, living in the United States. He was dissatisfied with proprietary, available, simulators like the Microsoft Flight Simulator, citing motivations of companies not aligning with the simulators' players ("simmers"), and proposed a new flight simulator developed by volunteers over the Internet.
(VATSIM) n/a July 2001: n/a Flight simulation: Uses existing flight simulation software with custom plug-ins, players may interact with the network as either pilots or air traffic controllers. Wyvern: Steve Yegge, Cabochon, Inc. February 4, 2001: Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS, Android: Fantasy MMORPG
Microsoft Flight Simulator [b] is a flight simulation video game developed by Asobo Studio and published by Xbox Game Studios.It is an entry in the Microsoft Flight Simulator series which began in 1982, and was preceded by Microsoft Flight Simulator X in 2006.
The usual independent benchmark for external links on this page has been the Alexa Traffic Ranking. VATSIM and IVAO get rankings of around 50,000 and 80,000 respectively; FS-MP is at about 2,500,000. Even allowing for inaccuracy, that is very very low compared with the other two (and any other link on this page) and hence the link should be ...