Re: [Flightgear-devel] Include local Aircraft/ folder in fgdata/AI and fgdata/FlightPlan scenario search

[Thorsten R. <tho...@sc...>]

> I agree with this sentiment; when I first installed 3.4 it caused me no  
> end of confusion as to why most of the AI scenarios didn't seem to do  
> anything. I'm happy to help with the process of identifying and  
> removing[1] scenarios that aren't truly generic.

They hardly ever are generic in the sense that you have to specify  
positions in advance. The beauty of the Nasal AI tanker is that you notice  
you run out of fuel, you can call it and it'll be with you runtime, and  
it'll avoid cloud layers at your location.

The AI tankers you have to set up in advance and they'll follow their  
flightplan even in dense clouds.

The AW thermals will just be there where there is a cloud generated anyway  
- no need to think in advance where you want to have them.

AI scenarios are imo pretty useless unless you want to spend some time to  
prepare a special mission setup - like FGUK sometimes does - i.e. have a  
tanker waiting at a pre-arranged position, have a ship in distress you  
must find and rescue, have an intercept target... Which definitely is a  
valuable use case, but it requires more than casual user skills to get  
anything out of it because you need to understand AI scenario  
configuration and edit xml. But, well, hardly generic.

* Thorsten