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Downloading Help ?

Please can someone please post an idiot guide to downloading aircraft to Flight Sim 2004. I seem to be able to download aircraft on to the computer but just can’t get them to work ! Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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By: SOFTLAD - 25th November 2005 at 16:03

Thanks for taking the time to post all that. Really do appreciate it. Ill have a go at it later tonight. Thanks very much again.

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By: adamdowley - 25th November 2005 at 14:17

step by step, as best as i can do it:

download an aircraft and save it:

for the example, go to avsim.com (http://library.avsim.net/) and search ‘british airways union 757 posky’

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a132/adamdowley/346346.jpg

when you’ve found the above file, download it. save it in ‘Program FilesMicrosoft GamesFlight Simulator 9Aircraft’ :

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a132/adamdowley/fsscr171.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a132/adamdowley/454456.jpg

it’ll start downloading (sorry if u haven’t got broadband, it’ll take a while.
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a132/adamdowley/fsscr173.jpg

go to the aircraft folder in your flight sim main folder.the file that has been downloaded will look like this:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a132/adamdowley/fsscr174.jpg

unzip the file using something like winzip or winRAR. right click on the zip file, and click ‘extract here’.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a132/adamdowley/fsscr176.jpg

it’ll extract it, and you’ll end up with an aircraft folder with the ‘posky 757 BA’ folder in. it’ll be called something like that.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a132/adamdowley/fsscr177.jpg

open the folder, and check that it looks like this:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a132/adamdowley/fsscr178.jpg

if it does (which it will), then close all the files and folders, and launch fs. hopefully, the program will notice that there is a new aircraft, so it’ll build the new scenery database.

once flight sim has loaded, go and look for the aircraft under ‘select aircraft’ – the aircraft could be found under ‘boeing’, or ‘Project Opensky’, or ‘POSKY’

enjoy flying her!

i hope that helps

thanks

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