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Who operates this website

The website openflightworld.com and the Open Flight World flight simulator are operated by a duly incorporated company. Its identification details (company name, registration and tax details, and address) are provided on legitimate request to [email protected].

Contact

For anything about the site, the simulator, your account or a purchase, write to [email protected] or use the contact form. I answer by e-mail.

What this website is

This website presents Open Flight World, a flight simulator that runs in the browser, and gives access to it, to its account area and to the purchase of its paid options. The conditions of use and sale are in the terms, and the handling of personal data in the privacy policy and the cookie policy.

Intellectual property

The design and texts of this website, the simulator's code and the aircraft models and cockpits built for it belong to Open Flight World or are used under licence. You may share links to any page freely; please do not copy the site, the simulator or its models without permission.

Trademarks

The names of aircraft, manufacturers, airports, airlines and other products mentioned on this site or in the simulator (such as Cessna, Cirrus, Pilatus, ATR, Bombardier, Airbus, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Google, Microsoft or FlightGear) are trademarks of their respective owners. They are used only to identify what they refer to. Open Flight World is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by any of them.

Not for real-world use

Open Flight World is entertainment. Its weather, traffic, maps and procedures must never be used for real navigation, flight planning or flight training.

Credits

Open Flight World stands on the work of many people and projects. The simulator's options list every source with its licence; the main ones are:

  • Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License, through the tiles of OpenFreeMap.
  • Imagery by Esri and its providers.
  • Photorealistic 3D Tiles © Google (Google Maps Platform), in the HD graphics.
  • Night lights of the Earth from NASA (Black Marble, VIIRS), through NASA's GIBS, and sky imagery from NASA.
  • Airport data from OurAirports, in the public domain.
  • Weather from Open-Meteo, under CC BY 4.0.
  • Flight dynamics by JSBSim (GNU LGPL), with flight models and some aircraft models from FlightGear (GNU GPL).
  • Sounds from Freesound, under CC0 and CC BY, credited one by one in the simulator; music from Jamendo, under a commercial licence.
  • Flags from circle-flags (MIT).
  • Software: CesiumJS (Apache 2.0), three.js (MIT) and MapLibre GL JS (BSD).
  • Typeface: Geist (SIL Open Font License).

This site links to other websites, such as Freemius's customer portal or the projects credited above. I am not responsible for their content or their privacy practices.