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I found a way to make the default De Havilland Dash 8 fly able in FS2004. It involves downloading an application called AIR ED, which allows editing of the .air file, and changing only one parameter.

However, it seems that the .air file in FSX is formatted differently and this parameter is absent. Is there a way to work around this?

Hi

This is a FSX native model so you can add an interior model to the model folder plus a panel and sounds and vc textures.

Then it should be flyable no problem, with a little editing to the views in the aircraft.cfg file to get the pilots viewpoint right.

If no-one has already doen this I'd be really surprised ...

Indeed, in FSX, to make an AI aircraft pilotable, you don't need to edit anything in the .air file. You simply need to assign a panel to the plane.
And, as Pete wrote above, if your AI airplane is in FSX native format, you can even assign a virtual cockpit to it
However, excepted the FSX default AI airplanes, 99% of the AI planes in the freeware AI traffic packages (World of AI, ICE AI traffic/GAIT, etc...) are in FS9 format, so you'll have to use your .air edition technique with these.

My one and only question still is why would anyone want to fly a aircraft that was designed for AI use. These crafts are the absolute worst designed aircraft created. The textures are usually horrible. and with out some serious tuning they usually fly like a heavy rock. I have to admit I tried it once but fine tuning it was a task just to much effort for so little reward.
Don't get me wrong if that is what you want to do than go for it. But myself I like my aircraft as real as they can get.

garymbuska wrote:My one and only question still is why would anyone want to fly a aircraft that was designed for AI use. These crafts are the absolute worst designed aircraft created. The textures are usually horrible. and with out some serious tuning they usually fly like a heavy rock. I have to admit I tried it once but fine tuning it was a task just to much effort for so little reward.
Don't get me wrong if that is what you want to do than go for it. But myself I like my aircraft as real as they can get.

Ta, Garry.... ...!

With all this fancy Photo-Scenery stuff, I'm afraid that I will have to force you to show me a screen shot of one of your little piston props nestling amongst the photo-real trees and photo-real buildings in the photo-real countryside in the photo-real scenery....
...just that I know that all the things around you are actually sticking up in the air, and not just flat in the ground, ie: flat photograph, like they are in my Flight Unlimited II!

I like all my things to stick up in the air...(as the Bishop said to the Actress)... ....

Paul.... ....!

garymbuska wrote:My one and only question still is why would anyone want to fly a aircraft that was designed for AI use. These crafts are the absolute worst designed aircraft created. The textures are usually horrible. and with out some serious tuning they usually fly like a heavy rock. I have to admit I tried it once but fine tuning it was a task just to much effort for so little reward.
Don't get me wrong if that is what you want to do than go for it. But myself I like my aircraft as real as they can get.

I just want to try then out. Haven't you ever been curious about these AI-only aircraft?

If no-one has already doen this I'd be really surprised ...

It has ......

http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1 ... &x=18&y=14

Fozzer wrote:

garymbuska wrote:My one and only question still is why would anyone want to fly a aircraft that was designed for AI use. These crafts are the absolute worst designed aircraft created. The textures are usually horrible. and with out some serious tuning they usually fly like a heavy rock. I have to admit I tried it once but fine tuning it was a task just to much effort for so little reward.
Don't get me wrong if that is what you want to do than go for it. But myself I like my aircraft as real as they can get.

Ta, Garry.... ...!

With all this fancy Photo-Scenery stuff, I'm afraid that I will have to force you to show me a screen shot of one of your little piston props nestling amongst the photo-real trees and photo-real buildings in the photo-real countryside in the photo-real scenery....
...just that I know that all the things around you are actually sticking up in the air, and not just flat in the ground, ie: flat photograph, like they are in my Flight Unlimited II!

I like all my things to stick up in the air...(as the Bishop said to the Actress)... ....

Paul.... ....!

I think you copy-pasted that in the wrong place, bro.