Amen! The problem is. . .I think many members, maybe unfamiliar with what's truly involved in building any aircraft for FSX, think in "months" before they get to see a beta and a few months after that, the final release (and get down of your soapboxes before you even step up on em'. . .I didn't say ALL Members). Developers on the other hand, work in "years". . .and not that one aircraft would take years (although I suppose some could), but a requested aircraft finds it's way onto the list and then it has to work it's way down to being a reality. If there was anyone who could seemingly work miracles with aircraft from pencil sketches to reality. . .it was Piglet. He was very adept at being able to produce amazingly detailed aircraft in less time than anyone else I know. Probably why he's no longer here. . .that had to take a toll on him.
I know there are developers who are outstanding with certain Warbirds and the meticulous care they take in producing those airplanes is much respected and very sought after. Personally I think there are enough P-51's, P-47's, P-40's, P-38's to last a lifetime but they'll keep on coming because they're popular aircraft and the end products are amazing to behold. Yet, unfortunately, as Pam mentions, there are aircraft out there equally deserving of being modeled to FSX standards that, for whatever reason, don't get a second look. . . .they get promised, but they don't really. Aircraft like the A-37 Dragonfly, a major contributor to many successful campaigns by the VNAF against the Vietcong. The F-100 Super Saber, the first Fighter in our inventory to achieve Supersonic speeds in level flight, spent 25years as an active Fighter/Bomber and the only "Century Series" aircraft I can think of that get's snubbed when mentioned. . .oh it get's promised. . .but again. . .not really they both take a back seat to yet another Cessna 172, 182 and Beech Bonanza and any number of other GA aircraft that seem to permeate the Flight Sim skies...
Well, as it turns out, I guess I'm the one on the Soapbox. . .so I will step down and go get a drink to cool off. No, I don't know how to design aircraft, but I do know what it takes to put one together both in the RW and in flight sim. They all take time, expertise from many different experts and endless hours of testing and correcting. I get all that. But like Pam and probably others who never speak about it in the forums, there are aircraft that "should" be done, but won't. .either because the developers who can build them are so far behind they'll die of old age before ever getting to them, or because these airplanes we speak of aren't airplanes they feel will be popular enough to warrant the time needed to see them through. . . . .because otherwise we would have seen them or heard of them being worked by now.:salute:
