Thank you for the feedback. Except for the GeeBee, I have all the aircraft from Gotfriends and am very satisfied with them. I also find it perfectly fine to run functionalities that the FS does not support in this way. Dumping water ballast is a matter of choice in gliding. Once you have made that decision, you should be aware that it is usually irreversible. The same applies to fuel calculations. As a serious glider pilot, I don’t need to do this on the fly and I live with the decision once I have made it, as it is in reality. I think this learning factor is part of FS. But that is not a point of contention for me. Let everyone do it the way they want, if the possibilities are there.
But I think a second point is much more important: especially as far as gliding is concerned, and I think glider pilots are not exactly in the majority in the FS. Because we glider pilots are a fringe group, we should be grateful for everything that the Asobo team implies in this direction and then also use the functions. Despite the advocacy of making the FS suitable for gliding, and assuming a realistic use, development in this direction is not exactly at the top of the list. Why should the team put effort into something if no one uses it. In addition, there are still very few FS users who make the effort to get into gliding, and if half of it don’t work, they quickly give up and the group doesn’t get any bigger. The snake bites its own tail, as the saying goes.
I see criticism as something constructive that should help everyone, that’s why I make an effort to write my opinion, that I don’t take it easy can be seen in my other postings. I am also a developer, and I think a common line is important.
Happy Gliding.
PS please give a short feedback on why the spoilers do not fully extend as written above. Thanks