Editing FlightGear (section)

==Controversy==
In June 2014 [[Honda]] lawyers issued a [[takedown request]] in which it was claimed that the [[HondaJet]] model in the simulator infringes on Honda's [[trademarks]]. Subsequently, HondaJet became the first model removed from the simulator for legal reasons.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Ernesto|url=https://torrentfreak.com/honda-takes-copyright-infringing-jet-flightgear-140603/|title=Honda Takes Down "Infringing" Jet From FlightGear|publisher=[[TorrentFreak]]|date=June 3, 2014|access-date=June 4, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606112909/http://torrentfreak.com/honda-takes-copyright-infringing-jet-flightgear-140603/|archive-date=June 6, 2014|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Games journalist Tim Stone, in his simulation column The Flare Path, criticized the practice of third-parties attempting to profit from the work of community volunteers to the project, pointing to deceptive practices of stealing media available online from other sims to misrepresent VirtualPilot3d, as well as highlighting allegedly fake customer testimonials.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Stone|first=Tim|date=2012-08-24|title=The Flare Path: Don't Buy VirtualPilot3D|url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/08/24/the-flare-path-dont-buy-virtualpilot3d/|access-date=2020-08-17|website=Rock, Paper, Shotgun|language=en-US}}</ref> Following up in 2018, Tim Stone wrote a second column in which he again criticized the "ethical standards" and "extraordinary willingness to lie in the pursuit of sales" displayed by the advertisements for another game which used screenshots from FlightGear.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Stone|first=Tim|date=2018-03-09|title=Don't Buy ProFlightSimulator|url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/03/09/dont-buy-proflightsimulator/|access-date=2020-08-17|website=Rock, Paper, Shotgun|language=en-US}}</ref>