March 26, 201016 yr I know, stupid me. I just got so carried away with installing AI packs that I over-looked the fact that America West doesn't have a/c all painted up in those nice colors since US Airways absorption.I installed the America West pack with the PAI Installer so now I want to go back in so that all of the America West planes and flightplans for them are kaput. Whats the best way to go aout this so I don't get errors later? I wish the plane packs from WOAI and PAI had an un-installer for situations like this that with one or two mouse clicks could delete out an entire airline (planes, textures and flightplan).Too bad. I'll kinda miss havin' them around the Phoenix terminal, particularly the themed paint jobs.Thanks everybody!
March 26, 201016 yr I know, stupid me. I just got so carried away with installing AI packs that I over-looked the fact that America West doesn't have a/c all painted up in those nice colors since US Airways absorption.I installed the America West pack with the PAI Installer so now I want to go back in so that all of the America West planes and flightplans for them are kaput. Whats the best way to go aout this so I don't get errors later? I wish the plane packs from WOAI and PAI had an un-installer for situations like this that with one or two mouse clicks could delete out an entire airline (planes, textures and flightplan).Too bad. I'll kinda miss havin' them around the Phoenix terminal, particularly the themed paint jobs.Thanks everybody!Why not just leave them there? That's one nice thing about FS, you can improvise and pretend if you want. Just an option to think about.I haven't installed from either site for a while, so I'm not sure, but one of them, if not both, had an option when installing to install as a separate file instead of lumping them all together in the one default file. If you installed as a unique file then you can just delete the flight plan, & aircraft BGL's for the particular airline. Flight plans are in the FS9 root/Scenery/World/Scenery folder. Or try to find it using TTools to see if you can identify the airline, then go to the root/Scenery/World/Scenery folder and eliminate it.Jim D.Jim D.
March 27, 201016 yr Author Thanks JIm.Yeah, I've been thinking about leaving them in there.I just wish there was an easy way to delete all America West flights at once from the flight plan. Unfortunately, PAI lumped all the packs into one flight plan .bgl.
March 27, 201016 yr Thanks JIm.Yeah, I've been thinking about leaving them in there.I just wish there was an easy way to delete all America West flights at once from the flight plan. Unfortunately, PAI lumped all the packs into one flight plan .bgl.FYI - WOAI does have an easy way to remove a specific airline package - check out the "expert" mode.And PAI does have an option to create individual Traffic files (not just dump them into one large Traffic file) - that is one of the selections available to you during the install process of any PAI package.I had been under the impression that individual PAI Traffic files was not an option until a few months ago when a fellow simmer suggested I dig a little deeper into the install options. Sure enough it can do that and now any PAI packages I install have their own individual Traffic file - just like WOAI.Hope that info is useful.
March 27, 201016 yr Author FYI - WOAI does have an easy way to remove a specific airline package - check out the "expert" mode.And PAI does have an option to create individual Traffic files (not just dump them into one large Traffic file) - that is one of the selections available to you during the install process of any PAI package.I had been under the impression that individual PAI Traffic files was not an option until a few months ago when a fellow simmer suggested I dig a little deeper into the install options. Sure enough it can do that and now any PAI packages I install have their own individual Traffic file - just like WOAI.Hope that info is useful.Oh wow!Opa does it again! Man, hey, can you please move in next door to me????Sooooooo, it actually sounds like perhaps I should just yank out and trash my PAI flight plan .bgl file and "dig into" the PAI Installer options and then re-install each airline as a seperate .bgl file. Of course, the other way to look at it is to trash the PAI flightplan file and simply not install the America West package (of which then if I find out I screwed up on ANOTHER airline again I'm back to where I am now!) Thanks again Opa! Really though, seriously, could you please move in next door? I'm in Arizona if that helps. :(
March 27, 201016 yr Author FYI No. 1 - For those looking for the most effective and fastest way to edit an entire airline out a flightplan - 1. Identify which program was used to create the airlines .bgl file (in my case it was PAI)2. Go to FS9\Scenery\World\Scenery3. Delete the .bgl file (flightplan file) that contains the airline you wish to not have show anymore4. Run the installer that corresponds to the .bgl file you just got rid of to generate a new flightplan, minus the airline you no longer wantExample;I no longer wanted America West due to an oversight on my part. I went to my PAI Packs (which I keep residing in the same folder as my PAI Installer) and took out the America West AI Pack and cut to my desktop. I then went into my FS9 World\Scenery folder and hand deleted the PAI flightplan file. I then started the PAI installer, click and drag all the PAI airline packs in my folder (minus the America West which was cut out to my desktop), selected my options for installing within the PAI Installer and re-installed all the flight packs.Interesting to note the "click and drag" when choosing to install multiple AI Packs. You can do it and works great, unless you are really, really, really bored and have nothing to do all afternoon and want to install each pack one by one. Also when done I cut and pasted the America West AI Pack back into it's folder with the others just incase i want to "go back in time" and see America West flying once more as it used to!Hope this helps anyone. If anyone has anything to add or correct have at it. This is basic stuff to all the vets out there but sometimes (like me) for people who have been out of the sim for some time and just getting back in it helps to have all the info you can get! Jeff aka mrmertz
March 27, 201016 yr Oh wow!Opa does it again! Man, hey, can you please move in next door to me????Sooooooo, it actually sounds like perhaps I should just yank out and trash my PAI flight plan .bgl file and "dig into" the PAI Installer options and then re-install each airline as a seperate .bgl file. Of course, the other way to look at it is to trash the PAI flightplan file and simply not install the America West package (of which then if I find out I screwed up on ANOTHER airline again I'm back to where I am now!) Thanks again Opa! Really though, seriously, could you please move in next door? I'm in Arizona if that helps. :(Too old to consider moving (just had my 75th) but I am in a Northern suburb of Dallas, Texas so we are really "almost" neighbors. :(
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