Hi CaptB,
FlightGear has pretty much a standing invitation to publish articles on flightsim.com. We have known people there for a long long time. Thorsten has put together a couple articles recently, but this takes a lot of work to produce a quality result. If anyone out there in FlightGear land would like to contribute an article for flightsim.com or the flightgear.org web site, feel free to contact me. Personally, I regularly hear from people who have found FlightGear because of positive comments and reviews they have run across on the internet. I imagine there are a few people that will always try to find a negative angle on anything, but I appreciate the efforts of users like CaptB to steer forum discussion in a positive direction!
Thanks,
Curt.