Okay...can someone help me installing project AI? Before, when you wanted a certain airline in your sim world, you would just click on the darn thing and then run the installer. Well, I went back to ProjectAI.com and the installers are no where to be found. I don't know what I need to get things loaded! There are no instructions on the site, the FAQ link in not active and there is no help!
Can someone help me out?????
Thank you!!!

Hey there Ross, For being your first post, you are already family...you helped me out a great deal.
I use to be proficient in all this stuff, until I went on a 3 month unexpected vacation from simming due to a computer crash and a dog-chewed FS2K2 disk 1.
Anyway, Thank you bunches!

Thank you for the very nice sentiment!
We are very glad to have you in the community.

I do have another question for you or anyone!
I downloaded the base installer...and the airline packages (both the old installers and the new). Everything seems to go great, but when the self installer (for the new style) runs, it goes through and installs all the appropriate files and a check mark appears next to all the items...but unfortunately there is no check mark next to "AFCAD Files Installed". I have AFCAD, so, I am not sure if this is normal, or should it have installed them?

Whilst I've used AFCAD to get the A.I. aircraft to use my add-on scenery correctly (where I can find the files) I've never bothered with the A.I aircraft themselves.

However, the more I read this thread, the more inclined I am to take a look.

Lee Swordy's original Ttools, whilst an EXCELLENT creation and grandfather of all A.I. utility files, always looked a bit too complicated for me to have the times to get to grips with it.

These Project A.I. installers sound interesting though.

Do they install all the required A.I. aircraft too if you don't have them? Lastly, what are the frame rate penalties like? I realise that an increase in A.I. traffic is one of the major culprits for f.p.s. drops, but how bad is it exactly?

Hey there Tipster, Project AI (using the installers) loads all the required aircraft models and textures and everything. In addition, after you install a certain airline "package" you will also have all those aircraft as flyable. As far as the FPS hits, I haven't found any -and I mean any- framerate distortion. If I ever have to do a re-install of my flight sim, Project AI is the first to go back in...which is how and why this thread came to be.

On a personal note...it is glad to have you still here. I read all that was going on with you and I am so glad that some admirable person did such a good thing!
There are still good souls in the world!

Following the instructions above, I arrived at:

http://projectai.flight1.net/installer/default.php

I went to d/load the PAI-Installer...and......"File not found".  

Obviously I'm stuck now as I understand I need that to install anything else.

It was my d/load manager. I must have missed the notice saying not to use it - if there is one. Getting the file now.

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PAI adds it's own AI only aircrafts plus textures, see my above post about the aircraft

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That file doesn't delete the default aircraft, it just removes them as AI traffic from FS2002.
What I did was move and rename my default traffic.bgl file to a safe location, that way if I ever need to return to the default AI, I could.

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I hope I helped

Ok thanks for that both.

Two (hopefully final questions.

I know i'm sounding like a pregnant Father with all this, but this is stepping into the unknown for me and I get real twitchy about installing anything if i don't know what it's doing, so please bear with me.

1) The base installer I've got is PAI Installer v1.19d.zip.
Is that the old one or the new one and where do I find the other one? (I assume I use the old installer for the airline files duly marked that way.)

2) I already have AFCAD files installed for a lot of my add-on scenery because the taxiway and parking positions are often different. Are project AIs files going to overwrite these with their own AFCAD files for the default positioning?