November 25, 2005 at 12:13 pm
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.
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.
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’

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


it’ll start downloading (sorry if u haven’t got broadband, it’ll take a while.
go to the aircraft folder in your flight sim main folder.the file that has been downloaded will look like this:
unzip the file using something like winzip or winRAR. right click on the zip file, and click ‘extract here’.

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.

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

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