>Although this should give you a list of aircraft that have been tagged as >production quality it may miss some aircraft that are actually of very high >quality and some of the listed aircraft may not be truly "production" quality. >In fact looking at the list of "production" aircraft from my installation I > would say that some of these are not true production quality. In addition the > --min-status=production parm does not appear to work on my new GIT install as >it > lists all of the installed aircraft (over 300 of them).
> FGRUN also shows the aircraft status on the Select an Aircraft screen. Thanks, I didn't see the little box under the list yet. But it is a bit hard to browse through this big list to find the more attractive aircraft .... Getting the list by the good ol DOS-box was a bit easier- still a big list as you said... > Another way to locate more developed aircraft is to check to see how much >space > the aircraft uses on the file system. In general the bigger the aircrafts > directory the more developed it is. For example, the p51d (81.1 meg - use > the > jsbsim version), MiG-15 (70.3 meg) and IAR80 (53.8 meg) all have very big > aircraft directories and are highly developed although I don't think that any >of > the authors consider them to be complete yet. Using >"--min-status=production" > should include the IAR80 in it's list but not the p51d-jsbsim (which has a > status of early production) or the MiG-15 (which has no status information). Thanks for the hint >There have been long threads here and on the forums about the issue of helping >users locate the higher quality models. So this is a long standing and >significant issue. There was a rating system that was proposed here that would >have made it simple for aircraft authors to produce a consistent and verifiable >status for their aircraft. The system set a very high bar for the higher >status >ratings. Status ratings in this system could be alpha, beta, early production, >production and advanced production. Using this system the p51d-jsbsim model >gets an early production status as did the c172p. Taking the p51d-jsbsim up >for a spin (pun intended) will give you an idea how well developed a model >under >this system needs to be to get a production or advanced production rating. >Unfortunately it appears that only a few of the models are actually using this >system. >Hal So whats so difficult to use this rating system? Regards P.M. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
