2.7 My downloaded and installed aircraft are missing!

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Q:

I HAVE DOWNLOADED SEVERAL AIRCRAFT AND ONLY A FEW OF THEM SHOW UP IN THE FS98 SELECTION FOR THE AIRCRAFT. I PUT THE AIRCRAFT IN SUBFOLDERS OF THE AIRCRAFT-FOLDER OF FS98 AND CHECKED IF THEY CONTAINED THE REQUIRED SUBFOLDERS FOR MODEL, PANEL ETC. I DID ALL THE THINGS, WHICH WERE SAID IN THE README FILES. I EVEN INSTALLED THE FSCONV.EXE. NEVERTHELESS MOST OF THE AIRCRAFT DON'T SHOW UP IN THE MENU; ALL THE AIRCRAFT ARE FOR THE FS98, SO WHY DON'T THEY WORK?

A:

Following reasons for Your problem are possible (surely no complete list):

- Missing .CFG - File(s) in the aircraft-subfolders \panel, \model or \sound may cause FS98 not to show up this aircraft

- still missing conversion from a flight-shop-plane up to FS98 (or having overseen the error message of FsConv, that it cannot convert the specified plane)

- Using non-flight-shop-planes with moveable flaps or smooth-moving gear (which can't be converted or used by FS98)

- Having renamed the folders of the original FS98-planes, for example, by adding a "_" at the beginning of the folder-name (which I tried in order to find out the original planes easier). That truncates the aircraft-list extremely. Don't know why!

- My last experience with which I seemed to have 'lost' aircraft was by using FS98 on a harddisk partition larger than 2 GB. All folders beyond the 2-GB-mark where not recognized by FS98 - although they could be read by any other maintainance software (such as File Commander for Win95) in order to move these 'lost' files back to a smaller partition.

Mickey S.