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Hi, just to clarify.  I dont really know anything about building/designing FSX aircraft but I am not computer itlerate either...so please be patient with me...

I downloaded and installed the boeing F18 off of http://www.simviation.com/fs2004military19.htm
Filename is fa-18e_sh.zip

Plane works great. However, for the life of me I cannot figure out how to make this thing fly faster than Mach 1?  It maxes out at mach .9 and I can usually get a ground speed of 500-525 knotts.  Is there a setting in a config file or air file that can be treaked?  Also, note I downloaded the updated air file but it did not work.

Thanks for your help!

Welcome to SimViation..

First of all make a back up of an entire folder of the plane

Download this software
AirEd

here:


http://www.simviation.com/fsutilities_gen2.htm

read the read me file, learn some about how to use it

Unziped and open it, find you BACKUP folder plane ,open the *:air, file

youll see a menu with all this parameters, ,speed, hidraulic, drag,spoilers drag,flaps sustent, hundreds of diferent things to edit avionic,can be

look at the update file in the same block as the original file, it is a link to an airspeed update.

look at the updat file in the same block as the original file, it is a link to an airspeed update.

Better Idea indeed  ;)

look at the update file in the same block as the original file, it is a link to an airspeed update.

My point is that air update doesnt work for me.

Just a thought. I assume this aircraft uses afterburner. The default key command is Shift + F4. Make sure it's assigned from FS9 Settings/Assignments.