On 5 Oct 2008, at 09:13, Durk Talsma wrote: > So, with these criteria in mind, what would be your current top 10 of > aircraft?
Before the debate gets too details, there intention was (and still is, I think) to have at least one aircraft from the following categories: - the c172 - another light, GA single (eg, the cub, or maybe a more modern single-engine, like the piper archer) - a piston driven twin (senea, c310, etc) - a turboprop (eg, the b1900d, or Dh-6) - a WW2 era fighter (p51d, spitfire, one of the japanese fighters) - a heli - a transport class jet (737, A320, 777ER) - a glider - a modern fighter (f16, f14, SU-37) That's eight straight away, which are basically fixed, to 'prove' to new users that FG can handle all those classes of vehicle. Ten or twelve seems like a good limit - eg add a biz-jet (One of the citations being the obvious candidate) and then there's loads of 'cool' planes - the Osprey, Concorde, the WW1 era fighters, and so on. I'll leave it to Durk to pick a base package size based on the current aircraft selection, but people should be thinking along these lines when picking aircraft. The decision isn't how good the F18 / F14 is, it's whether it's better than then F16 / SU-37. Similarly, the 777ER verses the A320 or 737. And so on for each class - though in some it's easier, the Bo-105 is probably the clear winner for the heli, and the b1900d in the turboprop segment. There's also good arguments for including one 'show-off' aircraft in the base package - the the SR-71, Concorde, the 747-400 or A380, so people get some 'wow' factor without any install / download hassles. Particularly if someone wants to script a demo mode with Concorde taking off over the Golden Gate from KSFO or similar. Regards, James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
