Hi There , Ive been enjoying flying some fs2k2 choppers and jets in cfs2 Ive made up some damage profiles for them but the payloads don't show up. Ive seen a couple of utilities that claim to convert fs2k2 planes for cfs2 and fix the payload problem, it works ok on some models .Ive tryed editing the missiles and drop tanks from the models so that they can be added to the payload section but the patch utility rejects  modified models, I cant see why, I think it might be some sort of anti pirate kinda thing.I have no desire to gain commercialy by taking bits of other peoples models and do not intend to post any modified planes on the web.
But I would love to know why some models dont show up payloads and what does the patch utility from MS  look for to deceid that a model has been modified???
any thoughts?????

Cheers for your reply Hagar,one of the choppers Ive been making a dp file for is the AH 1 huey cobra on the fs2k2 chopper pages as I said the load outs didnt show, so I run the model thru the ms model patch utility, it backed up the original file but gave the error 2 message and refused to save the modified file,further to your reply I run the same model thru Bills patcher and got a result my loadouts now show.
Ironically a Huey cobra has appeared on the post ww2 pages of simviation.
Is there some way to destinguish the variouse types of model ? I presume it has something to do with the code that appears just before where it says some thing like "Import Table Linkage"
I have desembled models using one of Trevor De Stigter's Utilities which produces a scasm source file for editing and then reassembles the model,I have found that models thus tampered with will not show payloads and do not seem to be patchable this seems to be the case even for models that I have simple dissembled then ressembled without any editing ,even though the original behaved fine.