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Hello all...
I didnt see this posted anyplace, so here goes....

After adding a few (freeware) planes, I opened up FSX and discovered that most of the pictures didnt match their plane!  Never had this happen...

The newest add-on plane was a P-51 with drop tanks...not sure if it is the culprit...

It is as though the pics moved over a couple of spaces...so the Piper Cub might have a Mig photo...

If I choose the plane by its description, it works fine...but its still goofy.

I have closed the program, and restarted the computer...no change...

Thank you in advance!

Tom W.

Hi,

your problem occurs because one or more of the addon planes you added does not have a thumbnail picture in its "texture.*" folders. You must ensure that each plane gets its thumbnail.

This problem does not occur on FSX Acceleration, though...

You have a plane or two that lacks a thumbnail.  I have about three dozen or so of these and learned a simple fix.  From here on these forums when I was a lurker....

I made a small-ish avatar using Paint, texted it with "FSX ADD-ON" and dropped it into the texture file of the 'offending' craft.

OOPS!  Almost forgot....label it "thumbnail"!

There are a lot of freewares lacking thumbnails.  Whenever that happens anymore I just c&p from the original drop-in.

JINX!  You owe me a Coke!

This problem does not occur on FSX Acceleration, though...

Dang! My Deluxe, with Acceleration added later, still does.  I hafta check each time after extraction and pop a thumb if it's lacking....what's your secret?

WHEW!   I thought it was gonna be a file problem...I saw other posts on how to add a thumbnail pic...now I can get it fixed, and add all those thumbnails I was missing...

Good call guys, and thank you very much!!

Tom W.

I had several add-on A/c without thumbnails, but they showed up in the selection menu - just had the grey default prop/helo pic, no mess with misslabeld A/c...

So if the above doesn't help: look here - there was another more detailed thread about it but I can't find it atm...

Do the aircraft have thumbnails?

Do the aircraft have thumbnails?

As Meck pointed out, missing thumbnails is not the problem. It's usually caused by FS9-style entries in Aircraft.cfg. See reider's reply in this topic ---> http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1197748225/2#2

One of your airplanes is probally missing a thumbnail picture so it switched all the airplane pictures because that one doesn't have one. Go through your texture folder of your recent downloads and look for a thumbnail.JPG.
If you dont have one, go to google, search the aircraft, save the picture as thumbnail, then drag it back into the texture folder. 8-)

additional:

today I added another A/C without thumbnails included (the Airbus A300 Beluga). I took 2 screenshots for the first two liveries, the other two don't have the thumbnail included yet - that's what happens if no thumbnail is in the texture folder (the last 2 Airbus A300 entries):

This problem does not occur on FSX Acceleration, though...

Dang! My Deluxe, with Acceleration added later, still does.

This problem does not occur on FSX Acceleration, though...

Dang! My Deluxe, with Acceleration added later, still does.

Most of my planes are in FS9 format, an my hangar is quite full.  :-/

[quote]Most of my planes are in FS9 format, an my hangar is quite full.