You fly FlightGear. You want interactive air traffic control with human controllers. You want realistic flight plans and routings. You want to take on the challenge of aviating, navigating and communicating — all at once.

SquawkGear lets you do all that and more, connecting FlightGear to the VATSIM network. You can communicate with ATC using text and voice, and you can see other human-piloted aircraft perform takeoffs and landings. You can expect diversions when airfields close due to bad weather, because FlightGear’s weather will follow the network’s.

Download

If you run Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS or any other system with a working Python interpreter, grab the first package. If you run Windows, you probably do not have Python installed, so grab the second package instead.
In all cases, you need SB747 and AVC too.

NEW squawkgear_100528.zip (For all systems with python installed) Contains python scripts and required XML files.

squawkgear_windows_100406.zip (For Microsoft Windows) Contains a pre-compiled EXE, source python scripts and required XML files.

SB747 (by Jeroen “hoppie” Hoppenbrouwers)
(For Microsoft Windows) This is the VATSIM pilot client proper.

AVC Advanced Voice Client v1.0 (2005, by Chris Serio and Ben Supnik)
(For Microsoft Windows) Note that AVC is no longer maintained by its authors.

Licence

Copyright (C) 2010 by Ivan Ngeow
ivanngeow at gmail.com

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.