Guys i was wondering, if i go to the downloads section and pick a plane i would like to download, is that all i need, or can someone talk me through the process install etc.

Cheers

Icetoocool wrote on Aug 27^th, 2007 at 4:59pm:


If you go through the Download section for example here in Simviation.com, you will notice two types of downloads for planes:
- full planes
- repaints, that is textures only for a plane that you downloaded before.

It is a real shame that full planes and repaints are not separated in the download section. However...  

When you download a full plane, normally there is a Readme file in it, that explains how to install it, like the-ex-pat told above.
If not, I recommend you to read the FAQ, you'll find the explanations on "How to insert an aircraft". Forget that! I'll try to give some simple infos.

Normally, when you download a plane, you get a big ZIP file.
Extract it to a temporary folder. When it's done, you would get a new folder with the name of the plane, and inside this folder the following subfolders:
- model
- panel (and maybe some panel.--- additionnal folders, they are additionnal panels for specific variants of your plane)
- texture (and maybe some more texture.--- additionnal folders, they are additionnal repaints for the variants of your plane)
- sound
- gauge: you need to take all the files in this folder, and move them to the "gauge" folder in the FSX main folder.
- effects: same as above, move those files into the "effects" folder in the FSX main folder.

Then, you just need to take the folder of the plane and move it into the FSX\simobject\aircraft folder, and that's all
If anything more than that is to be done, it MUST be written in the readme file of that plane.

LOL ! 
I think someone's should care about the FAQ, it's pretty incomplete right now, don't you think ?
In any case, sure you can copy-paste my explanations. Forum means sharing informations