fundamentally we disagree.
You are saying that downloading or finding an aircraft from FGMEMBERS is too hard for users(?) or newbie users(?)
I think it is a rather simple task, and we are willing to get any newbie unstuck and get the material, kindly and supportively.
You don't get FGADDon content "within" flightgear. That is a misconception. You get whatever the "catalog" distributes, which typically is some snapshot of some FGADDon content, or other catalogs available around. (which contrastingly are rather obscure)
FGMEMBERS could create such catalog. I dont deem that important, but if anyone wants to create one, fine by me
We list all our aircrafts in a rather simple format on our wiki:
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/wiki/wiki/ ... -Availablehttps://github.com/FGMEMBERS/wiki/wiki/ ... -AvailableSo, in my opinion, the "it is too hard to get the FGMEMBERS aircraft" is a propaganda line. And a cheap one at that (i.e. not true at all).
The true is that a big misinformation effort exist on the "core" community, to prevent people to know howto and where to look for FGMEMBERS content. In fact, calling FGMEMBERS "FGM" is one of such efforts. (just google FGMEMBERS and see the results. Google FGM and see the results).
So, off course, if you help a new user saying: Get aircrafts from FGMEMBERS there is a lot, most people figure out really fast how to do it. Others ask a quick question. 99% of the time, the problem is solved by saying: remove the "-master" from the unzipped file.
Don't get me wrong. There are many aspects of FG that are not user friendly. That almost seem to require a computer class at the College level to just get going. Getting aircrafts from FGMEMBERS? not one of them
Finally, as a matter of fact, FGMEMBERS is not the official aircraft repository for FlightGear, but I dare saying is the DeFacto repository for users (new and not new) to get access to the most updated and most comprehensive content.
So, yes. We differ on that particular opinion.