Durk Talsma wrote:
> I just placed the sources and base package for the pending FlightGear 1.9
> release on my webserver:
>
> http://durktalsmal.xs4all.nl/SimGear-1.99.5.tar.gz
> http://durktalsmal.xs4all.nl/FlightGear-1.99.5.tar.gz
> http://durktalsmal.xs4all.nl/FlightGear-data-1.99.5.tar.bz2
Thanks!
> Please note that I made an aircraft selection that was based on various
> suggestions made on the list, but that -as far as I'm concerned - this
> selection is not yet final. I've been trying to cut down the total number of
> aircraft in the base package, yet preserve the variety in feature richness
> that we originally had. Based on this, I came to the following list:
>
> 777ER : Fairly Complete Airliner
> B1900d : Very complete Commuter jet, Twin Turbo Prop.
> bocian : Our most complete SailPlane
> c17p : Light Single GA; our default aircraft
> dhc2 : Versatile Tail Dagger, with Aerotowing Capability
> Concorde : Supersonic Transport
> Dragonfly : Nice ultralight.
> F14 : Omnipowerful Jet Fighter; has so many features, it is very
> well capable of representing the category "Fighter Jet"
> CitationX : Small Commuter Jet
> SopwithCamel : Historic Aircraft
> UFO : Classified
> Zeppelin NT : Airship
> Zero : WW-II Fighter
The lack of a helicopter seems like an omission.
I note that the base package size above is 200MB.
I did a quick look at the (uncompressed) size in KB of
each of these aircraft, excluding the CVS directories.
5564 777-200
6208 b1900d
13528 bocian
17708 c172p
6752 dhc2
20656 Concorde
876 Dragonfly
29428 f-14b
4360 CitationX
14464 sopwithCamel
232 ufo
2148 ZLT-NT
3968 A6M2
As can be seen, there is a huge variation, and some pretty huge planes. I would
suggest:
- Dropping Concorde It is very nice, but also very advanced for new users.
- Replace the Sopwith Camel with the Stampe. The Stampe is much easier to fly,
and saves us 6.5MB
- Look at reducing the size of the c172p. The Liveries directory is 9MB, and
each tailplane texture is currently 1MB.
- Adding the bo105. This means we have a helicopter, and the aircraft is only
3MB in size.
-Stuart
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