With 500+ aircraft in FGADDON alone, trying to find the exact aircraft you want to fly can be challenging.
To help with this, FG now supports aircraft tags - http://wiki.flightgear.org/Catalog_metadata. The idea is that this will be used on the website and launcher so that if you want to fly a 1930s twin engined tail-dragger, you'll be able to enter those tags and see a list of the appropriate aircraft.
At the same time, there's a new XML tag <long-description> for a longer description of the aircraft, so new users can get an idea of what the aircraft is before they download and run it.
For example, the entries for the c172p are:
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<sim>
<description>Cessna 172P Skyhawk (1981 model, detailed)</description>
<long-description>The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is a four-seat, single-engine, high-wing fixed-wing aircraft. First flown in 1955 and still in production, more Cessna 172s have been built than any other aircraft.</long-description>
<tags>
<tag>ga</tag>
<tag>cessna</tag>
<tag>piston</tag>
<tag>single-engine</tag>
<tag>fixed-gear</tag>
</tags>
<author>Original by David Megginson, gsagostinho (Gilberto Agostinho), wlbragg (Wayne Bragg), Juanvvc (Juan Vera del Campo), onox, thevirtualfer, Dany93 (Daniel Dubreuil), dg-505 (Jonathan Schellhase), tigert (Tuomas Kuosmanen), AndersG (Anders Gidenstam), wkitty42 (Waldo Kitty), algefaen, Horacio, D-ECHO, Jarl Arntzen (jarlarntzen)</author>
<status>advanced production</status>
<aircraft-version>2017.1</aircraft-version>
<rating>
<FDM type="int">4</FDM>
<systems type="int">5</systems>
<model type="int">4</model>
<cockpit type="int">5</cockpit>
</rating>
But, for this to work, we need people to add tags to aircraft. This is where you come in!
Erik has produced a list of the aircraft that are currently untagged here: http://adalin.com/ehtw.info/flightgear-metadata.txt, along with some suggested tags based on YASim FDM files.
If you'd like to contribute some tags etc. for an aircraft on the list, please post it below, and I will review it and check it in. Doing so you'll be helping the entire community and in particular new users find the hidden gems of the FlightGear hangar.
If you could use format above, that will make life easier for me.
Thanks,
-Stuart