Lord help me with this aircraft install

[tennm1980]

oh good lord---that pic is beautiful! thanks for your info and the link, will do as soon as i can get the hell off this damned graveyard shift. i work at pittsburgh airport, a hotel about 1 mile away, and those c-130's buzz in and out of the military base all day. those boys fly them like they are small props! unbelievable--anyways, thanks so much commoner, thats my wallpaper now! :-)

[tennm1980]

ok---no luck AGAIN---i run the program off the disc, it seems to run faster that way. so should i just completely un-install the program, then re-install it? im assuming that's my only hope now. thanks guys for any info---im cryin my eyes out thinkin bout e'rybody else and all their NEW planes ;-)

[Wing Nut]

The most common reason for a plane not showing up is that the correct folder is simply inside another folder and the player didn't notice.  I'm certain that everyone here has made this simple mistake from time to time.  I know I have.

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Also, check to be sure you did not install it to the FS9 Directory (or some other folder) instead of the aircraft folder, where it should be.

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Make sure the folder you are installing has the following:

Model folder.
 contains a .mdl file and a Model.cfg file

Texture folder
 contains various .bmp files

Sound folder
 contains various .wav files (not always) and a Sound.cfg file (always)

Panel folder.
 contains  various .bmp files (not always) and a panel.cfg file (always)

.air file
aircraft.cfg file.

These are the minumum items that must be in the folder for the plane for it to work.  If any of these are missing, the plane will not work.

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Open up the Aircraft.cfg file with notepad and look for the following:

This is an example, yours may be different...

ui_manufacturer=ALPHA
ui_type=F-80 Shooting Star
ui_variation=1. F-80C-10-LO

The reason I use this example is this:  Everyone knows the F-80 was manufactured by Lockheed, but this is the Alphasim F-80, and instead of using a proper name in the FS9 aircraft menu, they have chosen to use their own.  Ui_manufacturer is the first name you will look for in the aircraft menu, but not everyone does it right.  BTW, here is your opportunity to change it if they did screw it up.

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If anyone else can think of any silly reasons why this may not work, please post them.  If it is one of these, don't be embarrased, because it has happened to us all...  ;)

Kevin

[_526th_Fireman]

Well, you guys have done a great job in covering all the bases as to why an acft. won't display.

I can think of only one more............and that is IF in the Aircraft's Sound folder there is ONLY a sound.cfg, then it is going to be aliased to some other acft.'s sound. IF you don't have that acft. that it is aliasing the sound to, NO ACFT. Easily fixed though, alias OR add the sound from another appropriate prop acft.

You can later go find some more suitable sounds for the C-130.

Good luck.