Flatsonar

FlightGear

by The FlightGear Developers

Flight simulator

Dangerous permissions Verified creator GPL-2.0 v2024.1.7

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Screenshot 1 of FlightGear

About

FlightGear allows you to control over 400 aircraft, small and large in a range of situations, types of weather, seasons, day and night cycle. This includes single-engine propeller aircraft, large 4-engine passenger liners, experimental aircraft, classic and vintage aircraft and helicopters.

The FlightGear landscape covers the entire world and is downloaded as you fly. Visit any of the 20,000 airports with an accurate representation of airport buildings on many of the larger, international airports.

Most popular flight control hardware, such as yokes and sticks are supported. Multiple monitor setup and multiplayer is also featured.

Permissions

2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
    --device=all
  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • network
    --share=network
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • access to xdg-config/kdeglobals
    --filesystem=xdg-config/kdeglobals:ro
  • talks to com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
    --talk-name=com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
  • talks to org.kde.kconfig.notify
    --talk-name=org.kde.kconfig.notify
  • talks to org.kde.KGlobalSettings
    --talk-name=org.kde.KGlobalSettings

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • fetches from plib.sourceforge.net over unencrypted http: anyone on the path can swap the bytes
    source:insecure-url
  • verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.