Reach For The Open Skies: An Interview With Curtis Olson

FlightGear is one of the most amazing and most important open source projects in existence. With a huge community around it, and a group of talented aviation lovers to develop it, FlightGear is the greatest and most open way to travel our world!

Curtis Olson who is one of the founders of the project, explains the technical uniqueness of FlightGear, the plans of the project and how his love for airplanes made him a big part of this huge effort.

Introduce yourself and tell us a few things about your role in the FlightGear project.

My name is Curt Olson. I have been involved in the FlightGear project since it’s very start. For the first few years I did much of the heavy lifting (coding, project management, etc.) myself because I knew FlightGear would be highly successful if I could just get it over the “hump”. Over the years we’ve had many other talented developers join the project and establish leadership roles by making a variety of solid contributions...