James Turner schrieb: > 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. > > ... >
> Regards, > James > > > Please don't forget the "lighter than air" class with ie. the Zeppelin NT. I might be wrong, but no other flightsim can handle this stuff like FlightGear can now. Regards Georg EDDW ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
