Remember the tutorial?  http://www.simviation.com/acinstall.htm

I still suspect your new aircraft is in the wrong place.  It should be

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\FS200\Aircraft\Black-F-14

If you're sure everything is in the right place there is no reason it shouldn't work.

Read the documentation that came with it because you're eventually going to have to deal with those other .zip files.  They are probably gauges or effects.

Look in another aircraft folder and see what's different.  They all have basically the same structure.

I'm off to bed so see what you can do after you print the tutorial and play around with it on your own.

Your suggestion worked, Hagar! I see Grumman under the manufacturer list in the availables. It is not listed as Black-F-14 for aircraft model; it's shown as Tomcat F-14 OAQM. So I said, "OK, let's fly." I put in to fly, the scenery began to load, then it just froze at 26%. Normally my scenery will load fairly quickly, but this time it just stopped. My default departure is Reno/Tahoe Int'l, so it's mostly desert-- not alot of detail to throw down before we get a picture. I'm wondering if the computer is deadlocked between generating scenery for Black-F-14 and for Tomcat F-14-OAQM in which to fly?

I'll try to start it again now.

OK. At least we're getting somewhere. Let's start from the beginning. Tell me the file name of this Tomcat & the exact page number you dowloaded it from. I'll install it myself & see if I can figure this out. I suggest you uninstall it by deleting the Tomcat folder from FS2002 \Aircraft.

In the meantime try installing another aircraft & see if that works.

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Don't worry about that. The point of the exercise is to show you how to install aircraft. I suggest you dump this Tomcat & try something else. For all I know there might be a bug with it. There's no point in making things difficult for yourself.

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This could be the problem. Why not try one of the aircraft from the newest pages?

I need the file name & the exact page number. There's a lot of Tomcats posted on this site & I don't want to waste my time trying the wrong one.

OK. It's almost time for me to go so I'll check it out later.

Now please follow my advice. Try another aircraft, any aircraft.

I think Webb is leaving it to me for now. If we can't figure it out then he can have another try. When you find out how easy this is you'll be kicking yourself. Please try it my way or I'll stand back & let him do it. Too many cooks spoil the broth.

PS. Maybe I shouldn't have got involved in the first place but I thought I could help. I've been doing this for a long time. Now do I download that Tomcat or not?

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rootbeer. I don't mind admitting that I'm getting a tad confused myself. I have no idea how many aircraft you downloaded or tried to install. You seem to have got yourself into a bit of a mess. I suspect this is mainly caused by not being familiar with your PC. This is nothing unusual & I have years of experience helping raw beginners of all ages getting started in this hobby. We were all just like you once.

You're complicating matters by trying to run before you can walk. Taking this in easy stages will prevent all this unnecessary frustration. Once you learn how install an aircraft we can go on to the next step. Installing that Warbirds Extreme package complicates things even further. I can't help with that as I don't have it myself.

I think it might be best if we go right back to square one & start from scratch. Now please follow my instructions carefully. First, uninstall the Warbirds Extreme package from Add/Remove Programs. I assume it has an uninstall feature. Once that's done go to the Microsoft Games folder & rename the FS2002 folder to FS2002OLD. This will hide it from the registry & back it up.

Now insert FS2002 CD-1 & do a fresh install of FS2002. Install it to the default directory in exactly the same way as before. When install is complete run FS2002 & adjust the settings as necessary. Once it's running properly download an aircraft from the FS2002 section here. Tell me the file name & exact page it's posted on. I'll download it & walk you through the install. In the meantime, please visit my Lair from the link in my sig & read my Windows Basics & Working with Windows articles carefully. Then read the Aircraft Installation tute again & make sure you understand exactly what we're trying to do. This will all be so much easier once you understand the basic principles.

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I very much doubt that. It should be impossible to run FS2002 on my antiquated machine but from what I read on this forum it runs a lot better than on some brand-spanking new monster PCs. FS9 runs very well on it too.