Hi Arno and Jon,
What FlightGear needs is developers with the skills of people like you two, who can come up with tools that are both powerful and easy to use!
To make an airport in FlightGear requires two programs, TaxiDraw and TerraGear. To use TerraGear you need to download the SRTM data for the airport etc. etc. Compare this to using a single tool like Airport Design Editor and how quickly you can create an airport with it.
I agree with you that finding time is the big concern. It takes time for people like me to learn how to use new tools in a new environment, but what is
really time consuming is to create these tools and then provide updates for functionality and the inevitable bug fixes.
I can't thank you gentlemen enough for providing tools like ADE and ModelConverterX that make the job of creating airports and the models that populate them, such a breeze!
