Simviation Forum - Add-on A/C for FSX

Aug 24^th, 2007 at 8:36am

randyjohnson Offline
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Hello everyone,

I have FSX...and I downloaded the A/C Installer utility ADDIT-PRO...and for the life of me...I can't get the A/C to show up in FSX. They show up in the ADDITPro section. I download the A/C from Simviation directly to ADDIT PRO....then I select INSTALL ADD ON..and follow the prompts. It appears everything goes they way it should..but they do not show up in FSX.

Any suggestions?

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Reply #1 - Aug 24^th, 2007 at 9:50am

garymbuska Offline
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randyjohnson wrote on Aug 24^th, 2007 at 8:36am:

Hello everyone,

I have FSX...and I downloaded the A/C Installer utility ADDIT-PRO...and for the life of me...I can't get the A/C to show up in FSX. They show up in the ADDITPro section. I download the A/C from Simviation directly to ADDIT PRO....then I select INSTALL ADD ON..and follow the prompts. It appears everything goes they way it should..but they do not show up in FSX.

Any suggestions?

I for one do not use these kind of programs as they can cause more problems than what they are worth and the fact that you can not see the aircraft is proof of what I am talking about. I would suggest that you download the SDK for FSX and any other info for adding aircraft to FSX. I would like to be of further help but I have not added any aircraft to FSX yet because I do know it is different from FS9 and there are a few different steps you have to take in order to get them to work. The biggest difference is the fact that the aircraft are kept in a SIM OBJECTS folder and then inside of a AIRCRAFT folder. I would double check that the program you are using is for FSX and not for FS9 as if it is for FS9 then that is the reason why they are not showing up. Check your FSX folder out to see if you see a AIRCRAFT folder if you do that is the problem. You can try moving the contents of that folder over to the SIM OBJECTS/AIRCRAFT folder this might solve your problem. If so just delete the aircraft folder Cool

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Reply #2 - Aug 24^th, 2007 at 6:23pm

MattNW Offline
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Yeah, what Gary said.

Oh, and welcome to SimV.

The big problem with add on managers is they don't always work as they are supposed to because not all add on aircraft are exactly the same. Managers can usually install aircraft OK but if there's an extra step in the installation that is unusual the managers can't adapt and you get incorrectly installed aircraft. What's even worse however is you don't know what was installed where so when a manager install screws up your FSX installation you are going to have a problem undoing the install. Much better to install by hand and know what files went where and exactly how to remove them.

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