> A small addition: what has always bothered me about terrain in FG is that > roads and rivers are all the same size.
Good point. That wasn't really apparent from the FSX demo (not so many roads of different size in the Caribbean). I think rivers are less of an issue in CORINE based custom scenery - I seem to remember that I was quite happy following major rivers in custom France or Italy. Roads... yes - Vivian's screenshot looks quite promising though. It's not something that's very important to me personally because I usually fly in pretty lonely places where roads are far an inbetween, so it's something I tend to overlook. > Obviously compare the worst YASim with the best JSBSim will always be > beneficial for JSBSim. But the opposite will be benefit YASim. This is > ridiculous. Erik basically said it - it's not a YaSim vs. JSBSim comparison here. We could make a best YaSIm vs. best JSBSim comparison, and I do have an opinion about that, but that's a different discussion. > This kind of remark has no place here, and especially not by you. What's the last half-sentence supposed to mean? Why would I be an especially unsuitable person to remark on aerodynamics? Granted, I'm not an aerospace engineer, but I do have a sufficient comprehension of fluid dynamics, solving equations of motion and all the rest, and I have real-world experience as a glider pilot, so I feel entirely qualified to comment on aerodynamical issues. > FS X was released in 2006. What is really surprising is that a person > like you never had the curiosity to test it before today. Not really - I'm not a Microsoft fan, I try to run Windows as little as possible and mostly live on Linux. > What is it > then for X-Plane, Fly II Legacy and all the others ? And I am speaking > not even of older sim. FS 1, FS II, FS 3, FS 4, FS 5, Gunship, Knight of > the Sky, Reach The Sky of, A320, F15II, F29 Retaliator, Falcon, Falcon > 4, IL 2, Flanker 2.0, Lock On, etc. .. I have logged many happy hours with Falcon 3 and Falcon 4 and I think they were excellent simulators. I fail to get your point though - if I compare FG with FSX and write my opinion, am I somehow under obligation to make a comparison to every other flightsim in existence at some point in time? So I tested FSX, I found we fare quite well in comparison, I did not test Gunship or X-Plane 10, so I don't know how we fare in comparison and I will not offer an opinion without knowing - what exactly is the problem? Best, * Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel