Well, gad to see you bought FS2002. On installing scneery, aircraft etc. I believe it is very similar to CFS2, but all/ 99.9% of the add-ons for FS2002 come with installation instructions. As for must have add-ons, I don't think there really are must-have add ons, because one man's garbage is another man's treasure. Arg, I have been beaten.

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I have an idea this was aimed at me. LOL  

Rick, if you have all 3 versions of CFS you won't have problems installing aircraft or scenery. The FS2002 Scenery Library is identical to that in CFS2. In fact, many of your CFS2 aircraft will work very well in FS2002 providing you know how to realias panel & sound.

I hesitate to recommend addons. As the others have stated, we all have our own preferences. Personally, I wouldn't be too influenced by the Top 20 downloads or what anyone else recommends. I'm sure every member of this forum has a completely different FS2002. That's the attraction of the M$ sims for me. You can make them into exactly what you want. To get the latest FS2002 aircraft I suggest starting from the Newest Files links in the various sections & working back from there.

My own particular interests lie in messing around in light aircraft, floatplanes & vintage warbirds & modifying the AI Traffic with Lee Swordy's remarkable utilities. I would say these are a must-have. You might like to check out the AFCAD & TTools board on this forum. Good luck.  

PS. I almost forgot. If you get stuck check out the Help section & my own Lair from the links on the the SimV main page.

or instead of doing all that research right now like the others suggested, you can play it untill you find something you want changed.  Then go find the addon to make the change.  For me, my first addon was the jetways from the terminal to the plane at DFW.  The airport by default doesn't have them, so I fixed it.