Agreed: that's one reason I have a 'create an unprivileged user' hook in my pbuilder setup.I'm assuming that there's no good reason for anyone ever to be running flightgear in a privileged context
Standard layout is FG_HOME = ~/.fgfs, FG_ROOT = /usr/share/games/flightgear and FG_AIRCRAFT (which is a list, not a single directory) empty.I'm also assuming that /tmp is the only one where it's likely that other users would be able to create such symlinks.
Upstream discussion: http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/33619992/