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

Thank you,

Dave

On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 8:34 AM Willie Fleming <[email protected]> wrote:

> And a big thumbs up to David Hudach who puts it a lot more eloquently than
> I can.
>
> bravo, sir!!
>
> On Mon, 25 May 2026 at 13:29, Willie Fleming <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  b023 said "who is to decide what aircraft are in what
>> state."
>>
>> I suggest an entirely undemocratic autocratic decision by a couple of the
>> senior devs.
>>
>> Far better to get something done and some gains achieved and ask for
>> forgiveness later.
>> otherwise we sit around endlessly debating in case someone gets
>> hurty feels and absolutely zilch is done to move us forward.
>>
>> As for the main users being devs, have you looked at the numbers of
>> rip-off CDs of Flightgear on Ebay etc? somebody is buying them and it
>> isnt devs. The fact they are being sold at al means our communications were
>> not good enough in the first place  - but thats by the by and off-topic
>> for this convo  -- sorry
>>
>> On Mon, 25 May 2026 at 13:22, bo23 via Flightgear-devel <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2026-05-25 11:28 +0100, Willie Fleming wrote:
>>> > How about a popup on the likes of the A380 and similar along the lines
>>> of
>>> > "This aircraft is buggy and unmaintained so please dont expect
>>> perfection
>>> > This does not mean you cannot have fun with it and we encourage you to
>>> try
>>> > it out anyway. Then if you think you can help here's how... <link to
>>> dev
>>> > resources>
>>>
>>> This sounds plausible, but who is to decide what aircraft are in what
>>> state. Furthermore, only the developers of the aircraft would be in
>>> charge to link to "dev resources", the place they want the development
>>> to take place.  There are actually fields in the detailed view of the
>>> aircraft for at least 'Website', 'support/issues', 'Wikipedia', see how
>>> the A320 does this... Well, the authors of the A320 did that.
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> Willie Fleming
>>
>
>
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