About games/flightgear-aircrafts

[Ganael LAPLANCHE]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 23:56:21 +0200, Alexey Shuvaev wrote

Hi Alexey,

Thanks for your answer,

> I have not looked what is needed to install new aircraft as a 
> user, but it it would be something against the habbits of a 
> typical FreeBSD user. At least I would certainly forget to 
> update an aircraft installed this way...

You would just have to copy data files to
${PREFIX}/share/flightgear/Aircraft/. Simple but not convenient, I agree.
 
> From my experiency a while ago, the quality of the aircraft 
> models varied greatly from model to model. I remember, there 
> was some transition from one simulation engine to another more 
> advanced one (JSBsim -> YASim or vice versa?). For example,
>  some WW II planes were able to perfom "back" loop in the 
> simulator, which is a non-sense... So, my 0.000002$ is if you 
> are somewhat familiar with at least some of aircraft, you can 
> chose those which are mature enough (such as default Cessna 
> 172).
>
> From another point of view, you are the maintainer of the port,
>  so it is up to you to decide (according to your personal 
> prefereces) which aircraft to include in the port. If somebody 
> lacks his favorite aircraft, he is free to create another 
> aircraft add-on port, after all...

I've established a first selection by following the main aircraft page :

http://www.flightgear.org/download/aircraft-v2-4/

and removing alpha/beta/experimental/early-production planes. I'll try
to shorten this list one way or another and come back with a limited
aircraft list. If somebody wants a plane to be added to it, just tell me
: I'll update it.

I'll try to work on that ASAP, but I am currently very busy, so don't
expect any change before a few weeks.

Best regards,

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