Fellow Flightgear users. According to my opinion, Flightgear is under advertised. When I say advertised, I mainly mean it's not frequently being shown on social media or the internet.
One way to fix this and therefore increase the number of flightgear pilots, atcers and developers is by choose a date (once a year, four times a year, every month) which is used by everyone with social media or other contacts to promote flightgear, not a mandatory thing. By doing it all at once, on a certain date, users of social media will see this and might think after one or two times, let's check it out.
By recruiting those pilots, atc will also become bigger as well as development resulting in a better flightgear, more realism.
It might be a smart thing to mention that it's free.
By recruiting new pilots, a snowball effect is started. More pilots means more recruiters which means even more pilots.
If you are interested in helping out in whichever way, please reply to this topic. The date will be determined.