Just wanted to give everyone a heads up on the fact that Flightgear 2.6 has finally made it to Getdeb's repositories
http://www.playdeb.net/software/FlightGear
For those of you that do not already have the Getdeb repos installed, instructions on how to add them to your debian-based linux distrobution (e.g. Ubuntu) here: http://www.playdeb.net/updates/Ubuntu/1 ... to_install