All thanks to your help, of course! As you might expect, following your instructions gave me solid gray helicopters, so I went back and did the same for the textures (for the helicopters I have). The results?


Trying to fly a pattern around Manhattan...


I really had to haul a** to keep up with this guy. Check out my airspeed!


There are, however, still some issues to sort out.


This one is really puzzling. I'm sitting on the ground in Honolulu with the Hughes 500D, and the ai Bell Jet Ranger is like a ghost. A ghost buried underground!

Weird, huh?

Also, I substituted my personal textures on a couple of ai Hughes 500D's and now FS9 crashes when I try to go to those airports (PAE1, PAM1, etc.) So I guess I'll have to download the proper textures, which is a shame as I made a great US Coast Guard texture for the 500! So much for expaning the Censport Charter franchise, eh?

And I've got a lot of helis to download in order to fill the ai list. But I've got a start and I owe you a huge THANK YOU for that.

Hi

With regards too fs9 crashing when you got too the airports where the helis are located with your textures on them. I had the same problem so after thinking about it I came too the conclusion' that my Pc was not powerfull enough, and so did an upgrade too Intel P4.  258 mb nividia threeD accelerator video card 4gig rams
120 gig hd. Now I have no problems at all. So I assume that the older system was not powerfull enought too do everything that I was trying to make it do.  Now no more staggers, and the sim crashing. 

These where just the actions that I took, and not to be taken on by others' because I did it. However it did solve all my problems' also my  textures are showing ok.

Cheers


Frank.