* George Patterson -- Thursday 10 November 2005 11:06: > Drop the ufo as fun as it is for testing purposes it has no cockpit, > and can't be verified as to the realism of the flight model.
It is beyond me why nobody seems to understand the purpose of the UFO. It was never meant to be a serious aircraft. It is the scenery exploration tool. It doesn't need to have a cockpit or a "realistic" FDM. It uses up 76 kB uncompressed, and 10.8 kB compressed! Even the NEWS file is 23 kB big -- compressed! - it is fun to fly, maybe the only thing that (younger) children can really enjoy fgfs with (apart from santa, of course) - it is very helpful for exploring the scenery; this may even motivate people to populate the scenery with buildings, and to commit them and other things - it is useful for making scenery screenshots (unlike santa) - heck, it only uses 10.8 kB (ten point eight kilo-bytes!) It's not the UFO that's superfluous, but the discussion about its removal. I wouldn't even list it as an aircraft that's up for discussion. Sheesh. m. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
