I'm sure this will be considered a really dumb question, but I have to ask. I am ever so slowly learning about all the little tidbits in FSX.....How to load freeware planes, helo's,scenery etc.. I am pretty good with most of that stuff but now am interested in this world of AI aircraft. I know they are planes that were installed by the developers to make the world more real. They are at various airports around the FS world. I would to add the correct planes and airlines to airports in my area. there seems to be alot of very confusing files concerning AI Aircraft. Is there a easy way of installing a couple of simple plane that take off and land somewhere without having to read a book on how to do it? any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Since you are adding this to FSX you should be aware of a potential compatibility issue. Namely, WOAI traffic schedules are in FS9 format. They will work perfectly fine in FSX but as soon as any FS9 traffic is introduced to FSX, only the older format traffic will appear and all FSX traffic will ve disabled. The issue comes down to the fact that FSX can not display both types simultaneously. If you are OK with this, no problem. If not, there is a tool called AIFP (AI Flight Planner) that can open FS9 traffic files and save them in FSX format.

Peter

Thanks to you all for helping me. I will try the link you gave me. 

Don't extract the WOAI package. Just keep it the way it is after downloading, and select it with the installer.

Andy7212 wrote on Jul 24^th, 2010 at 1:16am:

The logical answer would be to download/extract the files to a location that it can access.

I've not installed AI traffic to FSX so can't give further advice.

Edit: I've just successfully installed the WOAI EasyJet package to FSX. The WOAI Installer has a manual installation option. I extracted the files to a new folder I created on my C: drive named C:\FSX Traffic files\Easyjet
I then located the new Traffic_000_WoA_Easyjet_Su09.bgl & converted it for FSX with the latest AIFP. The converted BGL file can be saved to whichever location you wish before moving it to your FSX\Scenery\World\Scenery folder. (If you use this method don't forget to install the extracted AI aircraft.)

Note: This works fine in WinXP. I have no knowledge of Vista/Windows 7.

Andy7212 wrote on Jul 24^th, 2010 at 1:33pm:


Right Click on C:\ > Properties > Security and give permission to your user account to have full control over everything in C:\.

Andy7212 wrote on Jul 24^th, 2010 at 4:49pm:


Which BGL files? The one WOAI installs? It's in the Flight Simulator X folder under Scenery > World > Scenery.

Remember, not all the files in there belong to WOAI so don't modify anything that WOAI didn't put in there. The files labeled "Traffic_000_WoA....etc" tend to be the ones from WOAI.

Andy7212 wrote on Jul 24^th, 2010 at 5:25pm:

Run the zipped package through the WOAI Installer. The new traffic BGL file will be extracted to your FSX\Scenery\World\Scenery folder unless you select manual installation & send it to a different location. It will be named something like Traffic_000_WoA_Easyjet_Su09.bgl

Now run the extracted BGL file through AIFP. Files > Convert FS9 Traffic Files to FSX
Select the "Add _FSX suffix to FSX Traffic Files" option. Click Convert
Choose a location to send the converted file to, then paste it into your FSX\Scenery\World\Scenery folder. Remember to delete the original FS9 BGL file. (This will have the same file name as the converted BGL without the _FSX suffix.)

I apologize for my constant double posting, but I have another problem

So in my case, the first WOAI package I installed (manually) was FRONTIER. It includes an A319 aircraft. The folder name is WoA_DJC_A319_CFM. Then I install an Air Canada package which also contains a WoA_DJC_A319_CFM folder. What do I do?

I've tried only adding Air Canada textures to the original folder, as well as merging the two (some of the files have to be renamed like xyz(2)), but neither of these work.

It is different for Windows 7, because it doesn't let the program change stuff in C:\ so I am unable to use the automatic install.

Is there another possible solution?

Right. I tried the dummy folder & it works fine. Here's what you do:

First create a new folder to use as a dummy FSX directory in any suitable location. Name it anything you wish. Mine is C:\FSX_Dummy

The WOAI installer looks for fsx.exe so find the file in the FSX root directory. Paste a copy of fsx.exe into your dummy directory.

Run the Installer & set the FSX path to your dummy directory. Click on the [..] button then navigate to the folder & select fsx.exe as in my shot below.




Now select your AI packages & extract them to this directory. When you've finished the AI aircraft should be ready to paste to your FSX. It might be an idea to copy the aircraft folders rather than move them. Leave the  originals in the dummy directory in case you wish to add further WOAI traffic at a later date. (Don't forget to convert the Traffic BGL files with AIFP before installing them.)

Note: I'm not sure it's necessary to go to all this bother but with no knowledge of Vista/Windows 7 I can't check it out.

Excellent. Glad I could help.