Georg (Heliflyer) placed my first buildings. I took some effort, but I finally managed to place buildings myself. Q: Do you have real world connections with aviation or IT? Sadly the guy that introduced me to FlightGear and gave me a hobby that would last up till today, passed away in 2009. Since two months I’m studying Aerospace Engineering at the University of Delft. ![]() So far I really like this mix of hobby and study. Before starting this study my only connection with aviation (other than traveling) was a one hour flyinglesson in a twinprop, I got for my birthday. Q: What are your major interests in FlightGear? If you have a chance to do such a flight, I’d defenitely encourage you to do so. One of the things I like about FlightGear is the wide range of things one can get involved with: modelling, texturing, writing manuals, collecting data etc. Therefore I have a very long list of interests. Q: What project(s) are you working on right now? However, there are three key parts that I particularly enjoy being the development of scenery and aircraft and helping others by writing wiki articles and replying to questions at the forum. My main development projects right now are the Boeing 747-400 and Dutch scenery. Q: On average, how much time do you spend working with/contributing to FlightGear? Both can be considered as never finished there are always things to add/improve. Until this year I spent roughly 4 to 5 hours a day on FlightGear related things. Now that I’m studying I have less free time, but still several hours a day on average. Most of that time is taken up by non-development stuff, like the forum, wiki and livery database. Q: What do you plan on doing in the future? Over the years I’ve been spending way too litle time on the actual flying. Q: What advice can you give to new developers who want to get started on their first aircraft/new feature/Nasal script? I would really like to bring the 744 to a state where a real pilot cannot spot a thing that is missing in the simulation. ![]() Starting something new is easy, completing it is much harder.
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