A .TXT file can be made using notepad or microsft word.
when you save the file just make sure you save it as a .txt file.
A word of warning notepad will only create small files but I doubt it if you will exceed its limits making files for TTOOLS. I am not sure what its limt is but I know that it does have a limit as large .txt files will always use word

no such utility out there like that yet, it would be a hit if ever created though

There actually would be very little demand for it I think.

People like PAI have already assigned # numbers to their aircraft and other AI groups use different # number ranges. Don't forget these # numbers tie into your flightplans.txt file and cannot just be changed willy nilly.

If you add aircraft and flights manually to your flight plans you need to look for gaps in the # number range that are not already in use and probably will not be. For example, my manually added aircraft start at # number 5237.

It would be very easy to write a small prog to collect all the aircraft into your aircraft.txt file the way TTools does with airports.txt. Trouble is if you did, you would then totally bu**er up all your PAI and other flight plans.

Anyway it seems a bit pathetic to always be looking for programs written by other people to do simple things in your own sim. Half the fun of creating your own flight plans anyway is collecting all the stuff together and doing it for yourself. If you can't do it - tough, learn. It's a hobby that is fun and rewarding in many different ways if you want to take the trouble and one way of increasing the pleasure you get out of it is making your sim personal to you - by doing it for yourself.

Ah maybe so.

But I'll tell you something else. There's no way that you would want to have ALL of the aircraft contained in your folder set up as AI planes because most (probably the large majority) would not work properly anyway.

Even many of the planes issued by PAI are not good (sorry, it's true - check out the Airbuses which porpoise like crazy - Speedbird 2510 you are 300 below your assigned altitude - climb and maintain FL250 - and the 757s which do not hold altitude at all and slowly fall in a constant nose-up attitude as they fly).

Getting planes to fly right as AI can be a bit of an art and it would be a waste of time trying to convert everything to AI. In any case, planes like the POSKYs and MelJets are totally unsuitable because they are so FR unfriendly.

Back to the drawing board, what?

BTW I've done a heck of a lot of work on AI including FDEs for several forum members. I've also done FDEs for AI helis which I've got doing touch and goes in my (as yet unpublished) multi-carrier scenery.

O.K., call me spoiled Using Ultimate Traffic (UT) from Flight1.com, my planes are automatically renumbered and listed in aircraft.txt; e.g.,
AC#1,249,"F1AI100"
AC#2,228,"F1AI100"
AC#3,142,"F1AI100"
AC#4,186,"F1AI100*AF *AF *00"
AC#5,196,"F1AI100*AF *DB *00"
AC#6,218,"F1AI100*AF *YS *00"
AC#7,164,"F1AI100*BD *BD *00"
AC#8,204,"F1AI100"
AC#9,188,"F1AI100"
AC#10,156,"F1AI100"
AC#11,261,"F1AI100*JJ *JJ *00"
AC#12,125,"F1AI100*KE *KE *00"
AC#13,177,"F1AI100*KL *WA *00"
AC#14,198,"F1AI100*MX *MX *00"
** up to**
AC#2091,120,"Douglas DC-3 Paint2"

Therefore, i submit to automatically list all aircraft in aircraft.txt, get UT ($29)

http://www.flight1.com/

Aircraft and flightplans can be added by hand using the methods in the replies posted here.

Hope this helps without adding to the confusion.

bill

Thanks ronfad,
That's what I was looking for.
It's very helpfull.

Kind regards

No problem
If you need help on updating your aircraft list in Yroute  let me know.