2.18 Practical tips on downloading and organizing aircraft.
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Q:
SOME PRACTICAL, BUT MAYBE NOT OBVIOUS TIPS, ON DOWNLOADING AND ORGANIZING AIRCRAFT:
A:
After downloading many planes my aircrafts directory in FS98 was all hickledy-pickledy so I decided to arrange it.
Click on the aircraft.cfg of the plane of your choice and notice that the name that appears in the fs98 menu is the one displayed on the top line. How about prefixing certain aircraft with a common word, for example if it's a 747, prefix the plane name with 747. Sopwith camel, Albatros, prefix with WWI, all those fancy Brasilliers prefix with EMB120. Do this to all your aircraft and you will find that when you open the aircraft menu, aircraft of the same type will be grouped together. If after changing these names you get errors when loading FS98 (in the words of Douglas Adams) Don't Panic. it is just your saved flights trying to reference the old aircraft names. Either re-save the flights or just delete them.
Worried about where an un-zipped aircraft's bit will appear? Just create a folder in fs98 called TEMP and unzip (with folder names on) to this area. You can then drag and drop to where ever you want. This prevents files ending up all over the place - had a look in your windows/temp directory lately! I know these are pretty obvious tips but perhaps it will help somebody,
Edward B. Munns
Each of those titles MUST be unique or FS98 will only display the visual model
for the FIRST one. You will see two identical titles listed, but you will only
get the first visual model associated with both.
Eric J. Jorgensen
