These are packaged similar to WOAI if you've ever used that. Many have additional voicepack callsigns and scenery to add even more authenticity, giving the option of just installing the aircraft & flightplans or all the extras. Their support forum is good for helping with adjusting their packages for use in FSX. Why not try downloading one or two packages to see how it goes. It's pretty addictive.

While all MAIW packages are developed strictly for use in FS9 we've come to find out that many of them work just fine in FSX.

Do read the thread on converting some files for FSX though.

KJ

I don't use FSX so I can't comment about SP1 or 2.


All the newer MAIW projects come with self installers. Some of the older ones will use the WoAI installer.

All AI models feature multi-LOD models which take lesser resources from your machine than most older commercial airline models.

But just like anything else, even too much of a good thing can slow things down. But if you have a machine capable of running FSX then running MAIW packages should not be a problem.

Don't give up yet.  Quite a few people use MAIW packages with FSX.

Post on the forum over there and you'll get all the help you need to get all those fantastic military AI working in your sim.

Thanks guys! Didnt mean to offend anyone...I know its a good program. I just have to get it right for the install!

Only a 135 more packages to download! 

We just use the map feature to list the packages on our site.  You can also visit this site:  http://www.interkultur.de/gossmann/fsx/maiw.php  which is a complimentary site to ours and lists most of our packages in textual format, although it appears that it's not been updated for a while.  Come to think of it, I don't think our map has been updated for a while either.

That site I mentioned also has a tutorial on it on converting the packages to FSX.

And yes they must all be converted, they are only designed and tested for FS9.  But once you've done it a couple times, it is relatively simple to do after that (so I'm told).

Will MIAW traffic cut out regular AI traffic??? All my regular traffic is gone...

Elroy13 wrote on Jul 10^th, 2009 at 4:05pm:



Are you using MAIW in FSX?  You must convert the MAIW packages to FSX standards, or it WILL cause your FSX default traffic to disappear.

ALL FS2004 Traffic files will do this to FSX unless the bgl files are converted using AIFPC or something similar.

I've got all the MAIW & PAI packs installed in FS9 & FSX, and they all work perfectly.

I'm still working on converting all of the Russian Military from avsimRU to FSX standards, but I'm getting there.

The virtual FS9 directory is needed because of the auto installer.

Just make a folder call it FS9 and place a copy of the FS9.exe Inside it, and that's where the auto installer will put everything.

When that's done, move the planes & scenery over to FSX, and then convert the flight plans to FSX version using AIFPC (free).

It's not hard to do, the reason they don't do it themselves, is because it's not meant for FSX. If they did, they would have to field all kinds of support questions for problems that are caused by trying to put the square peg into the round hole.

Posky is the same way. 

WOAI and PAI  have come up with an installer that will do all of this automatically, so I'm sure the guys at MAIW are cooking something up.

FS9 isn't going to last forever (as much as I would like it too. )

I did indeed create the FS9 folder with the necessary FS9.exe inside and all the requested folders and sub-folders, installed the Hornet package and then moved all the planes and scenery to FSX.  But when they start talking about flight plans ....  I see no documentation to to help me understand "which fs9 flight plans?" ...   like where are they, how did they get created, etc.  AIFPC .... well,  not very clear.  Now if I had been raised with FS9 I'd probably have a better understanding ....  but I'm still working on it!  Any progress is good progress.  

That's the frustrating thing for us.  There are just enough differences between the two version (FS9 vs. FSX) to make it not worth our time. 

Had they carried more parts over from 9 to X, it would be much easier to produce packages for both versions.

LOL, it's the least we can do for a fellow Ohioan!

To make a very long debate very short, because no one on the MAIW staff has been impressed by FSX enough to make the switch.  Therefore there is no one to put the packages together in the FSX required format and more importantly, there is no one to beta test the packages in FSX.

That's about as simple as I can put it.

I wish we could do both, but just like every other freeware organization, we are always strapped for volunteers willing to put these things together for free.

Don't forget what we do is far more time consuming than what WoAI or AIG or any other AI group does for that matter.  So it's not just a matter of converting a few files.

MIKE JG wrote on Jul 13^th, 2009 at 8:44pm:


Makes sense! Thanks for the reply!