[goshikisen]

Personally I'm happy to see any aircraft, anybody wishes to spend their free time creating for the community to use free of charge.

At the risk of riling people up I'd have to disagree. I liken this effort to somebody donating violins to a piano school or sending parkas to Haiti. The intent might be noble but the effort entirely misdirected. This is a prop and early jet sim... and that's it. What would one think if a java programmer or skinner signs on to assist with this and another more appropriate project languishes because the assistance the modeller needs is not there. Should an F-18 make it in over a Shoki or a Do-17?

At the heart of this is something that I've wondered about since the early days of the add ons. Wouldn't it be better to find a balance between content that is beneficial to the community and appealing to the modeller as opposed to something that appeals only to the modeller and has limited to no use in the sim? There is so much WWII content out there that is half done or not done at all... creating content that has nothing to do with the actual focus of the sim seems to be a bit of lost plot.