I have just joined and downloaded four different aircraft. On attempting to install, I clicked on the installer package, and had a box open telling me the above, and to obtain a new file from the apllication author. Four files cant all be faulty it must be me what am I doing wrong please.
Many thanks in advance.
Pete

Hi Hagar, Thanks for your words, I have tried as you suggest to the extent that the aircraft appear in the select aircraft menu in my FSX, however when I select the aircraft I get the following message " Failed to start up flight model, with an exclamation mark and a close option"
By the way with each of the problem aircraft I am trying to open what is clearly shown as an installer file.

Many thanks fro any help.
Pete

Hagar
I wont argue with a Colonel, so taking what you say as a given, I still cant get the aircraft to work. I have several that I have added to FSX no problem but these last couple for example the FSND-MD83 whilst showing in the FSX aircraft selection when selected produces the following message " failed to start up flight model ".
I get this message with four different aircraft that I have downloaded. The fifth the A DHC3 installed normally. I sincerely appreciate your help in this matter.
Kind regards
Pete

Hi Hagar

I have FSX plus acceleration. the MD 83 fails, as does my Beagle Basset.
Same meassge failed to start.
Pete

Ok I will delete everything and download again and re-install before I take any more of you time up.
many many thanks Pete

Hey , how about taking some Screen shots of your files you have and posting them on here, so we can see , something , that'd be a big help too !! I do hope you know - you have to OPEN up that ZIP folder that you downloaded , then maybe, depending on the Creator of the aircraft , also have to open a few more folders to get to the actual Aircraft folders & files - till you get to this folders that will say - Model / Panel / Sound / Texture / CFG file below all those and usually another brown looking file installer file below the CFG file. close them all up and get back to the 1  folder previous to that and right click and hit COPY ,, then go to your MAIN AIRCRAFT folder and right click & hit paste and it should show up and load up & fly properly , just wanna make sure your NOT trying to "Inject" a Zipped Folder into your main flight sim Aircraft folder - it won't work if its a ZIP FOLDER ~ !!!!!   I install ALL My aircraft manually and inspect each and every file before its ever INJECTED into my FSX GOLD Acceleration edition , and I remove / delete / or save all un-necessary folders & files that don't have anything to do with the Aircraft flying ability - such as - Diz files - read me files PDF Files extra photos or Extra thumbnail photos -  I only want the BARE BONES of whats truly necessary to make the aircraft fly in that "AIRCRAFT folder" section and none of the Aircraft rely on any PDF File or Diz files or read me files or any extra thumbnail files - all that extra stuff is redundt and just takes up valuable space , I recently went thru and cleaned up & out All 147 of my Aircraft files and I was amazed at how much space all those PDF Files and read me files and Diz files were taking up - add them all up in size, and whooof - quite a bit of space they were invading on your hard drive - kinda like extra dust around your house or extra junk food left over in your refrigerator - time for it to go, save the important stuff to another location and TRASH the rest !!! good luck !!

Jetranger wrote on Jan 12^th, 2012 at 10:50pm:

That's good advice but I've already checked out both of the aircraft Pete is having problems with. They're configured ready to paste into the SimObjects directory & already have thumbnail.jpg in the Texture folders.