1. I'm growing less enthused with our aircraft alias naming system. I don't mind that we have the capability, but it becomes annoying to have 8 names for the same aircraft, even 2 names for the same aircraft.
As I understand it, aliases are primarily a convenience for the command line typer folks, but they severerly clutter the aircraft browser in the fgrun launcher. I propose that the fgrun launcher simply ignores all the alias entries and only presents the primary entries. Then we can discuss changing the alias system later (if we decide to.) I don't think we should eliminate the ability to set up aircraft aliases, but down the road we may want to do some reorganization. The J3 cub has at least five entries for one single aircraft. Aliases make more sense if have multiple versions of a 747 for instance and we want to select which version you get when you request a 747. Flipping that around and giving 5 different names to a single aircraft when we only have one of them seems a little out of control.
2. We have a *lot* of aircraft in the base package. Some of these are really nice, some of these are not even close to basic functionality. Most are probalby best considered "works in progress." (Now this is perfectly fine, and is what CVS is for.) However, for the next release I would like to just include a subset of the available aircraft, picking and choosing the best or most interesting ones.
Based on the discussion of this thread, here is the current list I have assembled for inclusion, notice that I err on the side of inclusion rather than exclusion which I think is fine, especially if we unclutter the fgrun aircraft browser.
Large Commercial Transports =========================== Boeing 737 Boeing 747 Airbus A320 AN-225
Small Civilian Aircraft ======================= Piper J3 Cub Cessna 172 Cessna 182 Cessna 310 Piper pa28-161
Military Fighters/Trainers ========================== P-51 Hawker Hunter A4 Skyhawk J22 F-16 Seahawk TSR-2 YF-23 T-38 Sopwith Camel T-6A Texan II North American OV-10A Bronco
Large Military ============== B-52
Experimental/Research ===================== Ornithopter UFO X-15
Helicopters ================ Eurocopter Bo105
Historic Aircraft ================= 1903 Wright Flyer Comper Swift DC-3
Sail Planes =========== Schweizer 2-33
Can anyone justify including additional aircraft in this list?
Thanks,
Curt.
-- Curtis Olson Intelligent Vehicles Lab FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org
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