I a download the plane files into my Aircraft folder, like the instructions say, but they don't show up when I open flighgear.What should I do?

>I a download the plane files into my Aircraft folder, like>the instructions say, but they don't show up when I open>flighgear.>What should I do?The instructions say to EXTRACT the aircraft archives to the Aircraft folder under $FG_ROOT/Aircraft.

I'm sorry but I don't really understand that.

>I'm sorry but I don't really understand that.Do you know WinZIP?When you download aircraft from FlightGear.org these are archive files, basically meaning that one archive/file contains multiple compressed files in a folder structure, so in order to work with these files you will usually want to uncompress them, so that the file/folder structure is extracted to a real folder under $FG_ROOT/Aircraft. Otherwise, FlightGear will not be able to find new aircraft. Thus, simply use an extractor such as WinZIP, PowerZIP, WinRAR, IzArc in order to uncompress the archive contents to a folder beneath $FG_ROOT/Aircraft.

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I have been trying to download extra planes for FG, and I can't get it to work. You mentioned WinZIP: I don't have WinZIP, but I installed 7-ZIP, as it said on the FG website. I extracted it to the right directory, but FG won't pick it up. So I checked out the directory in Windows Explorer, and what 7-ZIP had put there was one TAR file, whereas all the other aircraft had their own folders with various files inside. Why didn't 7-ZIP do it properly?

>I have been trying to download extra planes for FG, and I>can't get it to work. You mentioned WinZIP: I don't have>WinZIP, but I installed 7-ZIP, as it said on the FG website. I>extracted it to the right directory, but FG won't pick it up.>So I checked out the directory in Windows Explorer, and what>7-ZIP had put there was one TAR file, whereas all the other>aircraft had their own folders with various files inside. Why>didn't 7-ZIP do it properly?Probably, 7-ZIP is exactly doing what you told it to do: extracting the contents of an archive, due to the fact that tarballs can be compressed in a nested fashion using different compression formats, it is not uncommon that you first have to extract the tar file from the gzipped file in order to extract the contents of the tar file. On unix-style OS, this can be done automatically by piping the result of one command to another one or using a recent tar version. Simply imagine this like an archive inside an archive.Most Win32 compression tools should have an option that will ask you whether you want to uncompress any included archives automatically or not. So, if your tool doesn't offer this functionality, simply extract the tar file you obtained and you will end up with the directory structure you are looking for, put this directory hierarchy then below $FG_ROOT/Aircraft and FlightGear should be able to find any newly installed aircraft.

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