Re: The endless influx of low-quality, low-realism, quantity-over-quality aircraft into FGAddon

I wouldn’t say others could care less about what you are working on. But
aside from that, isn’t there a common goal, a desired end result whether
stated or not.  I think that is the point. What is your goal in your area?
Is realism a consideration?


On Sun, May 24, 2026 at 2:09 AM Keith Paterson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 22/05/2026 23:04, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > On 5/22/26 1:09 PM, David Hudach wrote:
> >> I guess I look at it this way. If the intent isn't to make FG a
> >> realistic flight simulator, then why put all of the time and effort
> >> into realistic scenery, live weather, accurate instrumentation and
> >> data (GPS, VOR, etc). Why not just call it a game and be done with
> >> it. Why put in all the work to model the real world on just about
> >> every level except for the actual airplane itself for which FG exists?
> >
> > it seems to me that the separation between the (ad hoc) development
> > groups is not known to you... if it is, you seem to be, somehow,
> > glossing over it...
> >
> > first we have the ""world simulation team" that has developed the
> > world simulator... then we have the various "craft simulator teams"
> > that develop the various craft they decide to work on... each team
> > works to develop their chosen area to some level of accuracy...
> >
> > all the teams work together with the "world simulation team" so their
> > craft can operate properly within the world and the "world simulation
> > team" works with the "craft simulation teams" to help make the world
> > easier to interface with for the craft to work properly... sometimes
> > this means adding new routines... sometimes it means deprecating old
> > methods and introducing new ones...
> >
> I was reluctant to pitch in, but this post really agreed with my view.
> Basically I am "Team AI/ATC". Maybe we should ne more aware of Conway's
> law a bit more. Like you describe it we have more a bunch of teams than
> a single organisation. Each team has their own goals in my view. Mine is
> to improve the AI/ATC, which others couldn't care less about.
>
> Keith
>
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