As I sit here and fire up the ole FlightSim.Com search engine, I notice something. The astounding number of repetitive planes. Do you know how many 747's there are in the flightsim database? Thousands. 777, thousands. 737, thousands. Notice a trend? It doesn't stop there either. Most of the big planes (like the A320, B727, etc.) have a couple hundred files to there credit.
You probably are scratching your head right now trying to figure out why I'm going on like this. Well, here it is. I feel that some of the most important planes are being left out of the equation. Like for instance have you ever heard of the Raytheon Premier I? The Pilatus PC-12? Aeronca 15AC Sedan? Cirrus Sr20? There are many more planes just like that. You can find a few files on some of them (like the Premier 1), however, it was a model that was released before the actual plane was, so it isn't accurate to the real thing.
So can you see my point? We need to get away from the big planes, the planes that there are already a gazillion files for, planes that commercial developers have already made with more quality than the average freeware developers can deliver (no offense to freeware developers, they don't have the time to go into the quality that commercial developers can). I want to see more of the little planes no one hears about. I especially want commercial developers to heed my words and go to the lesser know planes.
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Fred Clausen
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