Hello guys,When Flight Simulator Guide was still online, I saw this guide about updating the Aerosim 747SP to work in FSX. Now that the website's account has been suspended and with the site shut down, can anyone tell me how to update the aircraft for FSX?

Basically this is what you have to do (this should work for any FS9 AeroSim airliner by the way):First you have to get the thing into FSX, which means if you have it installed in FS9, you can simply drag the 747's folder from the FS9 airplanes folder, into the airplanes folder in FSX. You can also copy the AeroSim gauges into the FSX gauges folder if you like, but that will actually cause problems if you do , so I wouldn't bother if I were you. If you don't have FS9 installed incidentally, it is still possible to get it into FSX, you can simply install the Aerosim aircraft as if FS9 was on your system, and the installer will create a folder called FS9 in your Microsoft Games folder, and you will find the aircraft in there, then you can drag it from that folder into the FSX aircraft folder.If you then fire up FSX, you should see the aircraft is available, but there will be no preview picture of it, so if you want one of those, you'll have to create your own thumbnail picture. You will still be able to load it up for a flight even if there is no thumbnail picture, but you will probably find that FSX crashes shortly after you take off if you have dragged the Aerosim gauges into your FSX gauges folder, because the gauges are not really compatible with FSX, and the moment they start making calls to FSX as you climb out, FSX will probably freeze up. If on the other hand you did not drag those gauges into the FSX gauges folder, you will find it does not crash FSX, but there will be no gauges on the panels in either 2D, or in the VC. So, either way, you have to do this to get it going properly...Open up the Panel config file for the Aerosim aircraft in Notepad or MS Word or any other text editor you happen to like using, and look for all the gauges listed in that file, then pick another FSX aircraft (one that works) that has similar gauges (i.e the CLS FSX 747-300 for example) and open up the panel config file for that aircraft too. Then find, for example, the Altimeter gauge in the CLS panel config, highlight the name of the gauge, copy that bit of text, then highlight the name of the corresponding Aerosim gauge in its panel config file, and paste the CLS Altimeter gauge name in there instead. Do that sort of swap with all the gauges for both the VC and 2D panel in the Aerosim Panel config file, and then save it. Fire up FS, and you should have the Aerosim aircraft with the (FSX compatible) CLS gauges in it (or whatever aircraft you have used if you use something other than the CLS 747).Note that you can do this on the fly with FSX running, all you have to do is comment out all the Aerosim gauges by sticking '//' at the front of each gauge line of text in the Panel config file, and then you can crank up FSX with that aircraft. If you then alt-tab out of FSX and make a change to the config file and save it, then alt-tab back into FSX, you can simply reset the flight (the default key for that in FSX is, Control+:). FSX will then quickly reset the flight and you will see the change to the config file has taken place in the sim.It's a bit tedious, but it is certainly possible to do, and I know it works with several Aerosim FS9 aircraft, because I have done exactly that with the Aerosim 737-200 and the Aerosim DC-8, and I used the CLS 747-300, a few ISG gauges, some default FSX 737 gauges, and one or two from the Aeroworx B200 gauges to do it.Here is a bit from my Aerosim 737 panel config file by way of example. You can see that on line 1, I have swapped the Aerosim clock for the default FSX 737's clock (I've highlighted that one in bold, that's the bit that I copied from the default 737's panel config file). Lines 2 and 3 are commented out by using '//' to prevent those gauges from loading up in FSX, which would cause FSX to crash if I had not done so. Line 4 shows that I have pasted in the default FSX 737's autopilot mode control panel. Line 5 shows I've put the ISG EFIS up next to the mode control panel. The bottom two lines show that I have used the CLS 747's Standby Airspeed indicator and TCAS gauges in place of the Aerosim ones. Most of the other gauges are default ones from the standard FSX 737.gauge00=737-400!Clock, 3,3,86,88//gauge01=AS_CL1_B3!SETALT, 98,6,79,31//gauge02=AS_CL1_B3!FD, 5,352,158,69gauge03=737-400!Autopilot, 3,432,247,65gauge15=isg1!HW_B737_EFIS_CNTR, 35,355,100,70gauge04=737-400!OMI Lights, 478,274,25,72gauge05=737-400!Comm 1, 254,346,127,54gauge06=737-400!Comm 2, 381,346,127,54gauge07=737-400!Nav 1, 254,400,127,54gauge08=737-400!Nav 2, 381,398,127,54gauge09=737-400!Transponder, 258,454,127,49gauge10=737-400!ADF, 384,453,127,54gauge11=737-400!Airspeed, 6,99,133,133gauge12=Magnetic_Compass!Magnetic-Compass, 172,354,70,70gauge13=CLS_B742R_FSX!STBY_AIRSPEED, 6,99,133,133gauge14=CLS_B742R_FSX!VS TCAS, 178, 6 ,101,101Be sure to make back up copies of those Panel Config files before you do any of this stuff, so that if it goes ** up, you can get back to where you were, and keep in mind that we are talking about the PANEL config files here, not the regular aircraft config file. The numbers you see after the gauge names incidentally, are the position of the gauge on the panel and the size that the gauge will be, so you might find you have to mess with those to get the swapped gauges to fit properly, but most times they will be pretty close, since one altimeter is pretty much the same size as another one. If you do have to do that though, do it on the fly with FSX running, and reset the flight to see any change you made when you've saved the config file. Make only small alterations at first, to see how your changes affect things.Hope that helps - happy editing.Al

Thanks for the info. I'm getting one right away, and I'm pretty sure it will work on all of Aerosim's classic 747s.