Hi all

First I must way;
Job well done,

I am having some creative ideas and need a couple questions answered, if anyone happens to know.

• Can an aircraft be split in two in FS9?
• Can a turbojet be removed in FS9?
• Can ground objects be used to move the fuse/eng?

By this I mean to remove the aft fuselage section. I would need to have it movable in the sim at least 10ft in scale, so it could be moved back apart from the forward half of the plane. Then have the engine removable and it too moves back for viewing.
I am wondering if the sim has the ability to do this. I'm thinking maybe the ground objects might be used to move these. I have heard of stairs moving up to planes in the sim, but I haven't seen it anywhere. But if these stair do work, can I adjust their path in order to have them activate with key command to split a plane and move the appropriate parts?

Any feedback on these thoughts are welcome

Presuming you do not have much hair left, I *think* it could be done, tied to an unused animation  (say #2 door/canopy)

You'd have the visibilitiy conditions of the ground support pieces triggered by the activation of the #2 door.  and then you'd create all the appropriate animations - ground cradles removing the fuselage, other ground cradles coming to support the engine and " remove" it....

don't even think of animating people and all the movements!!!

" Closing" the #2 exit,would then trigger all these animations in reverse.

What Felix is saying is true, but I wouldn't go about using the Door #2 command, you might want it for something later on in the project.  Try utilizing the wingfold command, so that the animation couldn't accidentally be activated at any time other than on the ground.