Classic British Flight Sim

Aircraft folder? Do you mean Airplanes folder (there isn't an aircraft folder in FSX)

When you say you can't get it to display.. do you mean there's no picture of it? This will be because there's no thumbnail for it so FSX uses a default. You can cure this by making your own

Incidentally.. did Phil charge you for it or did he let you have it gratis.. not that this matters. Just curious
ATB
DaveB

DaveB wrote: Incidentally.. did Phil charge you for it or did he let you have it gratis.. not that this matters. Just curious
ATB
DaveB

And if so how about others being able to do so, mind you I am willing to shell out on that one. Still no response from the people in Oz though.
Keith

DaveB wrote:Aircraft folder? Do you mean Airplanes folder (there isn't an aircraft folder in FSX)

When you say you can't get it to display.. do you mean there's no picture of it? This will be because there's no thumbnail for it so FSX uses a default. You can cure this by making your own

Incidentally.. did Phil charge you for it or did he let you have it gratis.. not that this matters. Just curious
ATB
DaveB

Mike was on about putting it into an 'Aircraft' folder in the main directory but when it does that It does not display in the aircraft selection and it was free on the basis I treated it as payware and did not distribute it. :P

Dev One wrote:

DaveB wrote: Incidentally.. did Phil charge you for it or did he let you have it gratis.. not that this matters. Just curious
ATB
DaveB

And if so how about others being able to do so, mind you I am willing to shell out on that one. Still no response from the people in Oz though.
Keith

Was free but have to treat it as payware and not share it with anyone else.

I would agree with that statement wholeheartedly. I must therefore appeal directly to him then.
Keith

Ok.. that's fair enough.

There's absolutely no need to make an aircraft folder and put the model in it. It will work no differently from how it does in Airplanes. However.. should you feel the urge.. edit your fsx.cfg by adding a new sub-folder (Aircraft) in the Simobjects folder. Without doing this, FSX won't see it. You'll see the simobjects lines.. just add another line (numbering it sequencially) calling it Aircraft.. or whatever you wish. You really don't need to do this though
ATB
DaveB

Henry, I don't understand this at all. As you can see below, I have a number of planes in the Aircraft folder I created. They are all FS9 models which do not behave properly in SimObjects\Airplanes. The TSR2 is listed in the selection screen as Manufaturer Virtavia, not BAC. The old ALPHA models were the same - all ALPHA something.

Mike..

Now tell him what else you did to make FSX see the Aircraft folder in the FSX root directory
ATB
DaveB

DaveB wrote:Mike..
Now tell him what else you did to make FSX see the Aircraft folder in the FSX root directory
ATB
DaveB

Dave, I don't know enough about the innards of FSX or FS9 to be fiddling around under the bonnet.

I installed FSX to C:\FS10 on 27-9-2012. The properties for C:\FS10\Aircraft show it was created on 3-10-2012.
Now that corresponds to the installation date of a Stinson Reliant (from Brian Gladden). I got the original zip back from an external drive today, and on trying to unzip it I found it doesn't behave like other zip files. On this machine (win7x64), if I right click a zip file, the menu offers me "Extract All". For this file, it offers 'Open' and 'Explore' but not 'Extract..'
The readme says "Unzip to your main FS folder' but since it wouldn't unzip, I must have used Open and simply copied the folders into FS10 - that explains how the Aircraft folder was created. At this range I honestly don't remember exactly, but when the Stinson showed up in the selection menu, that was fine by me, so I left it there.
Since then, I have found that older FS2004 models which are unhappy in FS10\SimObjects\Airplanes often work OK if I move them to FS10\Aircraft. Why is this so? I haven't the foggiest.


MikeW

Mike,

Do you have any SimObjectPaths.n lines in your FSX.CFG?

These tell FSX where to look for aircraft:

SimObjectPaths.0=SimObjects\Airplanes
SimObjectPaths.1=SimObjects\Rotorcraft
SimObjectPaths.2=SimObjects\GroundVehicles
SimObjectPaths.3=SimObjects\Boats
SimObjectPaths.4=SimObjects\Animals
SimObjectPaths.5=SimObjects\Misc
SimObjectPaths.6=J:\!FSXAircraft
SimObjectPaths.7=J:\!AIAircraft
SimObjectPaths.8=J:\!WOAI_Aircraft
SimObjectPaths.9=J:\!FTXAI_AIRCRAFT
SimObjectPaths.10=j:\!MAIW_Aircraft
SimObjectPaths.11=j:\GAAM Aircraft
SimObjectPaths.12=SimObjects\UT2 Aircraft