How to install planes on flight simulator 2004
Especially, as you probably could see when I was in the area of my computer showing all my drives on there. I have roughly about eight different drives that I'm operating off of at this time. So, it could really be lost any place out there, if I don't remember where I'm really storing the file to. One of the other things that I'd like to mention here, which is I think something that's very important, is that what I try to do before I start downloading any of the freeware files that are on the computer for my Flight Simulator, I go and I actually start making my directory folders.
I make a folder, FS aircraft, FS scenery, etc, etc. That way, when I download the file I actually store it into those folders, so I know right where to go to look for it and it makes it much easier, very simple, and a lot quicker to look around at it. Now we see that this is taking a really long time to load.
We'll just There we go. So, now we're in the computer, and we're going to go and look, and go up to create a flight.
As we click on that, we're going to go up to the aircraft folder up there where it shows the aircraft. Select aircraft, so you want to click on that, and then we're going to go up to manufacturer. The one thing that you want to remember, this was a Project Open Sky plane. So, it's going to be stored under Project Open Sky, so you don't have to worry about looking all over the place for it.
So, we'll scroll down until we find Project Open Sky, there it is. We'll click on it, and here now you can see, there is our China Southern aircraft, and we can go in and take a look. Sure it is, there it is right there. So, all you have to do is click okay, and then click okay, again, which will load the aircraft, so that you'll be able to use it in your flight. One thing I'd like to mention to you too, is that if you want to really see what the aircraft looks like, in the next screen, and again this is taking while to load because my computer is a little slow.
You can actually rotate the aircraft around, and actually look at the aircraft top to bottom, back, left to right, up to down, or whatever it is like that there.
So, as long as we are waiting for the aircraft to load, again, I really stress it a lot Here we go. So, now as you can see the aircraft rotates on its own. But if you really want rotate it around, and see the aircraft a little bit more from all different angles, you can actually do that, by going over and then just putting your cursor actually on the aircraft itself, and I'll go down and do that.
Make sure you have the 'all files' button checked and especially the 'Use folder names' button checked too. To unpack the files all you have to do is to left click the extract button at the top right of the 'Extract' dialog and there should be a flurry of disk activity as your aircraft files are unzipped into the junk folder.
If you look in the Junk folder, you should see that it contains a single folder. Now this is a particularly well organised add-on plane and you may not always get something as near a result as this. Some freeware designers like to make it a little tougher for their users and you will get a clutch of ten or more files and folders when you decompress the zip. Inside that folder are all the files that make up our plane, but as I hinted above, you are not always going to get such a neat result.
If that happens, don protective headgear and click here to see what you do. Now we have to find where your copy of FS is lurking on your hard disk. Most probably it is in Program files, though this varies depending on which type of installation you have. A huge list of sub-folders should appear - drag the scroll bar on the divider down until you can see a folder called Microsoft games.
Again, you should get a list of sub-folders appearing, the length of which will depend on how many Microsoft games you own, but one of those folders will be called 'Flight Simulator 9'. Make sure that you don't accidentally drop the plane into the main Flight Simulator 9 folder - believe me, it is easily done. At risk of getting repetitive strain injury here, left click the little plus sign next to the Flight Simulator 9 folder. Even more sub-folders will appear - I bet you had no idea how many files there were on you hard disk… Now one of these sub-folders should be called 'Aircraft,' find it but don't click on it, because that is where we are going to put our hard won Convair Now go back and select the Junk folder - you may need to use the scroll bar to find it depending on how much software is installed on your machine.
Left click on the Junk folder in the left hand pane of Explorer and then select the CV folder by moving your mouse to the right hand pane. Left click on the plane folder and the drag all the way down until it is level with the 'Aircraft' folder and then move it across until 'Aircraft' folder is highlighted and let the mouse button go.
I'll have you know that all the screenshots here were created with SnagIt and to get that particular one, I had to hold down ctrl and shift with my left hand, drag the file with my right, and press the 'P' key with my nose. Now you know what we go through here at FlightSim. It isn't all sitting in the penthouse suite swapping stories with Boeing executives.
If the CV folder doesn't appear in Aircraft there are two possibilities. The first is that Windows hasn't updated Explorer to show the move - you can check this by left clicking View on the Explorer menu bar, then selecting Refresh from the drop down menu.
If CV doesn't appear in Aircraft after this, either it is still in Junk, or you have missed Aircraft and dropped it in some other nearby folder. Or it is in Flight Simulator 9. Or the network pixies have got it. The only good news if you lose it is that by now, you should know enough to go looking for it and move it back to its rightful place.
Take a deep breath and start up FS Once the default plane is on the runway, go to the menu bar and click 'aircraft' and then 'select aircraft'. If you scroll down the list of aircraft manufacturers you should see "Convair" early on. Go to the line below, the one that says "Aircraft model" and left click on the arrow at the far right so that the list drops down.
You should see "Convair CV" a little way down there. Want to take it for a spin? Select the OK button down at the bottom, wait for it to load and you have a new plane. Depending on your flying skills, it is possible to get this mother off the ground at Meigs.
Make sure you wind on a fair amount of trim and drop some flap if you don't plan going waterskiing. Additionally, I would floor the throttles and let the fans build up a bit of power before you release the brakes. And good luck; because this baby isn't quite as manoeuvrable as the Cessna.
Before we finish up here, a quick word on things that can go wrong with aircraft installations. This CV installs fine, but sometimes installations fail - the first sign that something has gone wrong being that the plane doesn't show up in the "select aircraft" dialog.
There are a few things to check. First off, hunt down the list of manufacturers and peek into the "unspecified" section. Sometimes planes which weren't originally designed for FS end up there.
If it isn't either of those two things, then it is very likely that the plane you chose isn't compatible with FS The best way to check this out is by looking at the readme file which will almost certainly be included with the plane.
Freeware readmes are often very basic, but they normally say which version of the sim the plane was designed for - and if that was FS98 or before, then the plane is not compatible with FS and won't show when you try to select it of course, the best time to check this out is before you do the install The other reasons for an apparently good installation failing to produce a plane in the menu is a corrupt or missing air file or a bad aircraft.
Unless you are a developer yourself, that kind of thing is tough to fix. One last thing - if you are running Windows or Windows XP, some add-on planes will fail to load, sometimes triggering a dialog which says "Unable to load visual model". Now you have to place everything in the proper location. The first subfolder we are concerned with is the Gauges folder.
If your aircraft came with any gauges, copy them into the Gauges folder of your flight simulator. The gauges folder in the downloaded folder can be deleted if you want, but leaving it in does no harm, and I find that it is nice to save so I can delete extraneous gauges if I don't like an airplane and delete it. Next, copy the aircraft folder into the Aircraft subfolder. This folder will probably contain a model folder, sound folder, a panel folder, and one or more texture folders, as well as an aircraft.
AIR file. This is all that may be necessary, however you might need to change the aircraft. You will want to check over the addon's aircraft. The aircraft. See the notes on the image blow for details.
What more explanation do you need? Open Flight Simulator, find your new airplane, and take it for a test run! I know that this is for a limited crowd, but I hope someone out there can use it.
If this gets a decent response, I'll post another one on how to fly the AI aircraft. Reply 6 years ago. Not just payware. The more addons you install you will eventually find one or more that will break your install. So it helps to weed out the lame ones and narrow it down to a few that really work then do a fresh install of FS and add those few favorites. Reply 14 years ago on Introduction. FS is about twenty. Reply 12 years ago on Introduction.
I mean, the price on the shelf is the price you pay, god damn man, that sucks
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