Simplifying Aircraft Deployment

Intro

This page is dedicated to collecting and discussing possible steps to help FlightGear aircraft become more easily deployable. In particular, shortcomings of the current approach of deplyoing aircraft are meant to be identified and addressed.

Current Limitations

• aircraft need to be manually downloaded from FlightGear webpage
• aircraft need to be manually checked for version compatibility
• aircraft need to be manually installed by extracting archive to base package

Desirable Long-Term Goals

• allow aircraft to be fully searchable based on aircraft-type/development status
• allow aircraft to be downloaded from within FlightGear
• allow aircraft to be installed from within FlightGear
• allow aircraft to be uninstalled/removed from within FlightGear
• allow aircraft to be updated from within FlightGear
• allow aircraft to be copied/duplicated within base package
• allow aircraft to be relocated/moved (renamed) within base package