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Hello peoples!

I like downloading new planes from this site, but there is one annoying fact about it.

When I download a new plane, i have to look through all of my planes to find it.

Is there some way of making catagories to sort all my planes into so that I can find them easily?

eg.
Airbus: a380
           a340
           a320

Boeing: 747
            737
            777

Something like that?

Open the aircraft.cfg file you wish to change in notepad. Then ammend ui_manufacturer=AVRO to whatever you want it to be and save

It would help if the people who made the planes would categorise the planes correctly in the first place, instead of putting the manufacturer as the design team who made it.

e.g.

-Panavia
--Tornado GR4
---RAF (617 Squadron)

Each time I download a new plane I have a peek in the CFG file just so that I know what manufacturer I am looking for when I fire up FS9.

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Everytime I install an aircraft, I sort it out by real world manufactor's names.  
Like Boeing, then the variation would be 777-240LR

Or Lockheed, variation would be L-1011

Each time I download a new plane I have a peek in the CFG file just so that I know what manufacturer I am looking for when I fire up FS9.

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Exactly what I do

Each time I download a new plane I have a peek in the CFG file just so that I know what manufacturer I am looking for when I fire up FS9.

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I second that, as I do that as well.  I hate it when I get a Posky craft and it's under "Project opensky" rather than "Boeing"

-HF

It says that the path name is invalid and to choose a different destination.

Then I go through c:drive and all that and its the wrong format.

What do I do?

if you don't have too many, I find that if you can't find the plane youre looking for, click on ANY and scroll down till you find it.

if you don't have too many, I find that if you can't find the plane youre looking for, click on ANY and scroll down till you find it.

Thats what I do, but it takes a while for me.

It says that the path name is invalid and to choose a different destination.

Then I go through c:drive and all that and its the wrong format.

What do I do?

Which path do you mean? If you can be a little more specific I'm sure somone here can help.

Going back to your original question, all this is covered in this tute. http://www.simviation.com/acinstall.htm
You can change the Manufacturer name to whatever you wish.

I change catagories on all of my aircraft (using UI_MANUFACTURER: in the aircraft.cfg ) by aircraft type;
General Aviation Highwing
General Aviation Lowwing
Aerobatic
Airliners
Military Fighters
Military Jumbos
Military Props
Helicopters
etc.

   That way if I'm in the mood to fly, say, aerobatic, I just go to "Aerobatic" in the aircraft select window and then choose from there.

This is just one possible way to do it, but it was easiest for me.  :)