On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Hal V. Engel wrote: > I used it for the P-51D and found the system to be easy to use and it took > all of perhaps 10 to 15 minutes to create ratings for the four areas that > get scored and then create the entries in the *set.xml file. The system is > easy to use and for less advanced models should only take perhaps 5 minutes > to do. More advanced models take a little more effort but the system is > clearly not burdensomeness for aircraft authors to implement. > > The real issue is to get a consensus with in the aircraft author community > to use a standardized rating system like this and I don't think this has > happened yet. Once there is wide spread agreement on something like this it > should fall into place fairly quickly. > > One thing that might be stalling this is that there is currently no > published description of the proposed system (I will call it Stuart's > system) available other than searching this email list and a few things on > the forum. At one point Stuart said he would create a document that covers > his system but this has not happened yet and the only way to find it is to > search the archives and even then the information is spread over a number of > emails. Making things even more confusing there is a wiki page on this > subject > > http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Formalizing_Aircraft_Status > > which does not cover Stuart's system but rahter a totally differnt system. > In fact the system proposed on the wiki is more complex and has no details > on how the ratings would be made unlike Stuart's system. The details on how > to rate various things is one of the key aspects of Stuart's system along > with it's relative simplicity. Perhaps we can get the wiki page so that it > reflects Stuart's system?
Thanks for the poke. I completely forgot to write this up. I'll try to do this today, though it needs a proper name. -Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
