you need to take the title line from the air.cfg and add that to your airplane.txt.

You first need ttools which is one this site.
http://www.simviation.com/fs2002utilities_ess1.htm

That will give you your 3 txt files.

Then which ever plane from the T-38 you want add the title line to your aircraft.txt file.

like this
AC#124,400,"FSD T38 Nasa with pod"
AC#125,400,"FSD T-38 Ho AFB without pod"
AC#126,450,"FSD T-38A without pod"
AC#127,425,"FSD T-38A KEDW with pod"
AC#128,420,"FSD T-38 USAF without pod"
AC#129,420,"FSD T-38A KVAD without pod"
AC#130,425,"FSD T-38A NATO Training Colors with pod"
AC#131,425,"FSD T-38 Navy Aggressor without pod"
AC#132,425,"FSD T-38 Randolph with pod"
AC#133,425,"FSD T-38 Thunderbirds with pod"
AC#134,425,"FSD T-38 Tiger with pod"
AC#135,425,"FSD T-38A Vance AFB White without pod"

then in afcad at the base you are adding you will need to click on the runway to get it to turn yellow, then right click and choose properties.

take the name of the base, ex KPOB for Pope, take the long and lat and the elevation from that window and condensite to look like this

KPOB,N35* 10.15',W79* 0.76',217

if you could PM me as I'm going to have a trainer base project and might be interested in seeing your work.

check out this site for any further questions that you might need answered right away

http://www.jetdoc.com/HLP/helptt2_1.html

Was the question to make the aircraft in AI with less mb so not to affect the frame rates by number of aircraft?
I would like to know this as well.
If you took the panel out how much d you gain?