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Haven't been around here in a while, terribly sorry, but my problem is that I (stupidly) overwrote my default CFG and AIR files for the default 172 when installing a Civil Air Patrol repaint.  Now the stupid thing has a three hundred horsepower engine.  After an exhaustive search I could find no place to download these files, so I'm asking any of you kind souls to find those files (usually C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\FS9\aircraft\c172) and attach them to an email sent to jaythepilot@plateautel.net  I do apologize for my idiocy and am thankful that there are friendly communities to help out such as Simviation.

I tried to send it to you but the e-mail in your profile is wrong. If you'll PM your correct e-mail I'll send it.

You can extract them from the install CD

FS aircraft files are located on CD1, MSGAME1.cab.

Dave

FS aircraft files are located on CD1, MSGAME1.cab.

Dave

Thank-you, Dave for the tip... ;D..!

I've lost my default Cessna 172's default "Red and Black" textures due to installing a 3rd party texture pack... :'(...!

Will give it a try... ;)...!

Paul... 8)...!


P.S. ...and therein lies the problemo...:o...!

Opening the MSGAME1.cab > cabdir >
....displays zillions of files, none of which are entitled "Cessna 172 Textures".... ...!
Can any one lead me to the file/folder which just gives me back my missing "Red and Black" default textures, to add to my 172 Aircraft Folder, and existing aircraft.cfg file......?
...there's an interesting problem for you...LOL...!
Thanks, Lads... ...!

...thinking...
A better idea would be to extract the complete default Cessna 172 aircraft to a spare Folder, so that I can pick out the bits I need...
How to do that Lads...?
...Ta... ...!

Paul,

The red C172 textures are in '....\aircraft\c172\texture.2\.

If your using XP-Explore the CD (view=details)>double click on 'MSGAME1.cab. In the right pane (file list) click on the 'Path' bar. Highlight the files destined for '...aircraft\C172\texture.2'. Drag and drop the files to a destination of your choice to extract. Note: this method does not 'Extract using folder names'.

If your using W98-Explore using your favorite archive utility (I use Winzip 7.0) and the method is essentially