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Hi all!
I kinda searched the forum a bit to see if I could find my answer but it seems it would have taken a long time to search through all the posts.

Anyway I was wondering if someone could help me in changing the .air files, so I can fly AI aircraft as regular aircraft. I have downloaded something called AirEd which looks useful but I am unfamiliar with the program.

Would appreciate some help, hopefully this won't require a huge explanation hehe. Even a link will do for a tutorial if it is too much to explain here. Thanks in advance!!

Certainly!

Open the file with AirEd, and you will see a window with a list of sections.  Each one does something different to the aircraft, and there are about a million of 'em!  Haven't actually counted them, though . . .

But the one you want to edit is one that reads "Aircraft Type", which would be a few lines down.  Change the number from 0 to 1, or is it 1 to 0?  I can't remember right now, as I'm not at my home computer.  Just switch it to the one it is not!

Great, thanks a lot I'll give that a try!!

Hi Fly guy. Welcome to our forums. About flying the AI aircraft. Well, what the Baron said will make it show up, but not fly. Look to my post http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/ ... 1072791018 for more help. AirEd is a fantastic thing, well worth learning to use. If you haven't already, try William M Roths site at http://members.dsl-only.net/~eagle/#statement. The best way to learn is just to experinment. There is a good tutorial called the Hitchhickers guide to airfiles. I can't remember where i got it from, i could post it here for you if you want it.  ;)  :D
Dan Garner. CFS1 / FS2002

Just to clarify. The Aircraft Type is section 105 in AirEd.
The value 2 is unflyable (AI Only drone) & 0 is player flyable.
The AI drones will need a panel folder to work properly. The easiest method is to copy the Panel folder from a similar flyable aircraft & paste it into the drone. It should now be selectable from the FS2002/4 menu but might not perform too realistically. The default AI drones are optimised for use as AI traffic & were never intended to be player flyable.

Cool, thanks for your help guys!