I'm extremely confused. I need help. I've been trying to make static aircraft. I downloaded some from this site, and in the readme the guy said he had converted them from add-on aircraft. How? I found a program this morning that converts MDL files to BGL. Is there one that converts MDL to Api? Or is there a program to convert BGL to Api? Somebody told me I could use EOD to make static a/c but I don't see how. Please Help ???

Look back over some old posts. I've posted several times about this prog, how to use it and its limitations etc.

My apologies for being an idiot. 
I didn't realize it made API files too. You have to admit, the name of the program is deceiving though

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Basically, this will be aircraft created with BAO Flight Shop (FS5) or AF99 (FS98, CFS1 & early FS2000). Both applications use the AF texture format as AF99 is simply an updated version of Flight Shop. CFS1 & early FS2000 (maybe even some CFS2 & FS2002) 3rd party aircraft were created with AF99. Many had the textures converted to BMP format. These should work fine as API macros but you would need to know how to recognise them. You can usually tell by the size of the MDL file. The later aircraft created with FSDS or Gmax will generally be much bigger. Most 3rd party aircraft posted in the FS98 or CFS1 sections should convert into macros but some might give errors. In this case it's best to try another example of the aircraft by a different designer.

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With API macros the simpler the better. FS5 aircraft were not animated. Therefore the model is as basic as you can get.

PS. The original M98toBGL was intended to recognise AF textures only. MDLtoBGL, the updated version,  should read BMP textures. http://avsim.com/hangar/utils/mdltobgl/
This might still only work with aircraft created with Flight Shop/AF99. I doubt it will be able to read the more complex MDL files used by FSDS & certainly not Gmax. I've always had more luck with the original M98toBGL & the FS98/CFS1 models. There are literally 1,000s to choose from. By searching the FS98 & CFS1 sections you should find examples of most types without too many problems.

PPS. CFS1 & FS2000 also included the FSFS Converter.

From reading Tiger's other post I suspect this is for CFS1. In this case only FS5, FS98 or CFS1 aircraft will be suitable as macros anyway.

It's possible to create an "exploding objects" library with aircraft converted with M98toBGL. One was included with the CFS1 Korea campaigns I did with Mike Eustace some years ago. These objects can be used in missions & campaigns like the default library objects. The library was created for us by my old friend Bill Potvin. I have no idea how he did it. Bill works on a higher plane than most people can even dream about.

Disregard what I said about it saying M98toBgl. I was using the wrong program. But now there's another problem. I can't set the path for scasm (in the configuration file). It says that the path must lead to one of the Freeware compilers. I've tried over and over but it won't accept the path. What's Wrong?

(PS - I still need answers to those questions under Other Things above)

Thanks. I think I may have found a way to overwrite his airfield with FSSC. Once again, thanks for all the help.

Sorry. It's a long time since I used these utilities. I just checked out MDLtoBGL & it has no INI file. Point the Assembler path to SCASM.exe & it should be OK. I always always found it a tad buggy. This is the reason I stick with the original M98toBGL.

PS. I finally managed to save the Configuration. This creates the INI file. Here's the path to my own Assembler.

[Assembler]
C:\Program Files\Leung Software\FS Scenery Creator\SCASM\

I had the same problem. This is one of the bugs I mentioned. I messed around with the path & it finally worked. Don't ask me why. Maybe it's the backslash after the last entry in the path.

C:\Program Files\Leung Software\FS Scenery Creator\SCASM\