F-16 Fighting Falcon
General Dynamics F-16 for FlightGear flight simulator
Current FGAddon version: 3.70 Suitable for: FlightGear 2020.3.x and 2020.4.0
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 tape 4.3)
- 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)
Each Block has slight differences regarding engine specifics, FBW system, aerodynamics, cockpit layout, available liveries[1] and payloads[2].
[1] Notice that the quality of liveries differ, with some being fictional. [2] Weapons available and payload presets are mostly U.S./EU specific.
For the full list of contributors see authors.txt.
Useful links:
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)
Manual: https://github.com/NikolaiVChr/f16/wiki
GitHub: https://github.com/NikolaiVChr/f16
Forum: https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2003
Discord: https://discord.gg/CJYTUAQ (development server)