From: Heiko S. <aei...@ya...> - 2011-02-23 01:38:08
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Hi Jack, > > I think the BO-105 could be replaced with either the EC-135 > or AH-1. > The state of the BO-105 cockpit is not very good at the > moment, and a > great visual model along with a good FDM is what we want. Interesting. You want to see another aircraft than the 777 because the fdm is not realistic, but you don't want to see a chopper where the fdm is highly realistic and already prooved by a real pilot. As beeing the main author of the Ec-135 and Ec-130 I vote against including of my models due to said reasons. > > I think I may set up a poll for informational proposes to > help see > what the majority really wants, as with some of the replies > in this > thread I cannot tell what some people believe should be > done about > these aircraft. First this is not what the majority of USERS wants- that's what the majority of DEVELOPER's and release managers wants. Then the base package should show what FGFS is capable of and what's special about. Our realistic helicopter-fdm is special so we include a helicopter model which has a very realistic fdm: currently it is the bo105 and the UH-1. The UH-1 has some issues, so it will be quite sure that it will be the Bo-105! > > Another developer did a lot of work on the BO-105 cockpit > semi- > recently, but his work was prevented from being committed > to GIT by > the BO-105's original author. (His motives for denying the > work from > GIT were a load of horse manure if you ask me.) We had this dicussion already. Every developer has the right to refuse any contribution. You have the right on your AH-1 as well. And though it is a pity that Horacio's work hasn't been included, the right of the main developer to decide what contribution he will accept is above all. > > As for the Dragonfly, the performance just seems unreal, > thought I've > never flown on myself. I think we could replace it with the > Dromader, > a much higher detail aircraft with a pretty extensively > detailed FDM. The Dragonfly seems not unrealistic to me. But yes, adding the Dromader would be good idea though. > > I would also like to suggest that the MiG-15 be added as a > default > aircraft, since it's extreme detail and realism is far > beyond that of > any other aircraft we have. Literally every switch, knob > and button > works and has an effect, and every airframe limit is in the > FDM. Would be also not that bad. > > I do have one question, though. Every flightgear > installation includes > an aircraft called "FG Video Assistant". It wont even start > up. If I > select and launch it, flightgear simply crashes at loading > aircraft. > What is the (intended) purpose of this aircraft? I think it > should > either be removed or repaired, as any aircraft that causes > flightgear > to crash may decrease a users opinion of the simulator. --> Bug tracker. The purpose was to have a camera assistent, and it worked quite good in the past. > > I'll see if I can think of any more aircraft we can > replace/add. Proposals are welcome, but it will be decided later with counting all votes given here on the list. At least that way it worked the last years. Heiko |