Original author(s) Platform Open Web Platform | Development status Active | |
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Initial release October 2010; 6 years ago (2010-10) Stable release 1.5c / January 1, 2017; 2 months ago (2017-01-01) Type Amateur flight simulation | ||
GEFS-Online is a free flight simulator based on the Cesium WebGL Virtual Globe. Originally built on the Google Earth plug-in, GEFS makes use of aerial imagery and provides a multi-player environment for pilots to interact with each other. Created by Xavier Tassin, it was launched in October 2010. On September 1, 2015, support for the Google Earth plugin ended, nearly resulting in the shutdown of GEFS-Online. In January 2016, in light of the Google Earth plugin's termination, GEFS-Online migrated to CesiumJS, an open source 3D globe platform. GEFS is exclusively built with web technologies and only requires a web browser to run.
Virtual airlines
GEFS is a flight simulator used for quite a few virtual airlines, simulating real life airline operations. The number of virtual airlines has become quite substantial, triggering the need for a separate sub-forum on the GEFS-Online forums.[4] The types of virtual airlines can range from completely fictional, to virtual airlines based on currently running, real world airlines.