If you actually DO the tutorials, you'll get a feel for the program.

Look in the samples folder, and you'll see you already have a number of sample aircraft.

G-Fire25 wrote on May 24^th, 2007 at 9:59pm:


Felix has no life like most of us.

His real count is MUCH higher ))

Been playin with it, makin custom projects, just cant figure out how to put in an engine so it will go 

G-Fire25 wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2007 at 2:08am:


I'll take a stab...when compiling the model, you need to associate it to an existing aircraft in FlightSimulator in order for it to adopt it's flight characteristics. Best way to do it is to take an aircraft that is close to your project in terms of configuration (# engines, weight, size), and performance. Your aircraft will then fly exactly like the one it has been associated to, and can be tweaked afterward if desired (that can be a project in its own right). FSDS2 and FSDS3 compile differently; the former is very easy and does so "internally", while the latter uses FS2004 MakeMdl (requiring FS2004 SDK as mentioned by Felix above) which you will need to download.

When you exported it, there was a typical Windows, "where do you want it to go" window. If you didn't "tell" it where to go, it should be in the default folder. Just go back and pretend to export it again and see where it wants to go.

You had to name it too.. so you could search for it by name..


However.. the REAL question is;  If you didn't have an export destination in mind, just what were you planning to do with the exported model ?  (that's a nice way of saying, "you got some more research to do"     )

Found it with the lovely search tool on Vista