Airplane Downloading Help!

[Darth_Eclipse]

How do you get the military planes onto FS 04?  Please help!  They all look so awsome!  Please tell me in a step-by-step process.  Thanks!

[Boikat]

1) download the .ZIP file to a temporary location, like a "downloads" filder you create.

2) Using windows explorer, Unzip the folder to a temporary location, like either the "downloads" folder or to your desktop. To "unzip", use your mouse and "right-click" the folder, nd select "extract".

3) the un-zipped aircraft folder ehould have at least four folders and at least two files; "model", "panel", "sound" and "texture" folders and an "aircraft" file and a XaircraftX.air file.

Most doewnloads also have a "Read Me" file.  Be sure to read it.

4) Copy and paste the XaircraftX *folder* containing the four folders an two files into the FS9's "aircraft" folder, usually located at C/: program files/Microsoft Games/ Flight simulator 9/ aircraft.

That's usually all there is to it.  Some add-ons may have extra folders like "sound" (not the same as the "sound folder *in* the aircraft folder) and "Gauge" folders.  Copy the *contents* of those files into the "sound" and "gauge" folders of FS9)

The "readme" file of the download should cover anything else

[Opa]

The process for Military airplanes is no different than any other aircraft.

This is what I do:

1. Verify that the aircraft is indeed for the version of FS which you are running (FS2004 or FSX for example) BEFORE you download it.

2. Unzip it to a temporary folder and then read any install instructions the author has provided.

3. Manually copy and paste the folders to the folders in FS where they should go.

[ShaneG_old]

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4. On any new aircraft I am auditioning, I do NOT place any gauges which may have been included into my gauge folder.

[Groundbound1]

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4. On any new aircraft I am auditioning, I do NOT place any gauges which may have been included into my gauge folder.

[Opa]

That makes for such a nice clean gauge folder! I love this tip! [/quote]

BTW - That tip appears to work properly in FSX also - but I have only done limited testing with it.

[microlight]

Great tip, David - coincidentally it's the way I've always done it too - one of the unsung advances of FS9 over FS8.

Welcome to the web's friendliest forums, by the way!

[Darth_Eclipse]

Thank you!  :)