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===Fully searchable Aircraft - by Type === | |||
Furthermore, many users have frequently requested a possibility to search and pick aircraft based on certain aircraft-specific characteristics, such as for example the type of aircraft (i.e. single engine vs. multi engine, piston vs. jet etc.) | Furthermore, many users have frequently requested a possibility to search and pick aircraft based on certain aircraft-specific characteristics, such as for example the type of aircraft (i.e. single engine vs. multi engine, piston vs. jet etc.) | ||
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From a programming point of view, this doesn't require any work as it | From a programming point of view, this doesn't require any work as it only requires contributors to provide said information-however from a usability point of view, it adds the possibility for GUI/WEB frontends to easily offer a way to search aircraft using this information. By restricting this information to be of Boolean type, it is very straightforward to either directly search the base package or to simply create a small database for very powerful queries-by just having users check/uncheck a corresponding checkbox, no matter whether this is on a webpage or directly in a FlightGear GUI launchr such as fgrun. | ||
=== Challenges === | === Challenges === | ||