Help planes not showing

RadarMan wrote:How to add aircraft to FSX.

http://flyawaysimulation.com/forum/topic/33358/how-to-install-aircraft-in-fsx/

OK thats all good but I know how to do all that but the planes are not showing, it says in the readme's that I need to add some lines to the aircraft.cfg well for 1 I don't know where that is and if I make it I do not know where to put it.

Thank you

lewis4490 wrote:...but the planes are not showing, it says in the readme's that I need to add some lines to the aircraft.cfg well for 1 I don't know where that is and if I make it I do not know where to put it.

Thank you

Firstly, your aircraft.cfg will only be a small "square" if you do not run MS Office -- so a small square is certainly not what you're looking for.
Each aircraft folder contains an aircraft.cfg, without it the a/c will not fly or... it's not an a/c. BTW, you open the aircraft.cfg by right-clicking on it and select "Open with Notepad".

When I read your OP I had a feeling that you'd downloaded textures instead of an a/c. If the ReadMe contained in the file contains something like [fltsim.xx] (the xx being the clue because you're supposed to change the xx into an appropriate sequential number such as 09 or 12 or whatever) then it's a texture file only.

To avoid the problem in the future, read the file description before you download

Tailhook wrote:

lewis4490 wrote:...but the planes are not showing, it says in the readme's that I need to add some lines to the aircraft.cfg well for 1 I don't know where that is and if I make it I do not know where to put it.

Thank you

Firstly, your aircraft.cfg will only be a small "square" if you do not run MS Office -- so a small square is certainly not what you're looking for.
Each aircraft folder contains an aircraft.cfg, without it the a/c will not fly or... it's not an a/c. BTW, you open the aircraft.cfg by right-clicking on it and select "Open with Notepad".

When I read your OP I had a feeling that you'd downloaded textures instead of an a/c. If the ReadMe contained in the file contains something like [fltsim.xx] (the xx being the clue because you're supposed to change the xx into an appropriate sequential number such as 09 or 12 or whatever) then it's a texture file only.

To avoid the problem in the future, read the file description before you download

lewis4490 wrote:
I know all of that but half of the things i download DO NOT have a aircraft.cfg.

And ofc I read before I download i'm not stupid!

This is not an encouragement for those who are prepared to help you with your problems -- some manners wouldn't hurt