Bruce,I'm obviously still doing something wrong, as I still can't get that in my aircraft options.Here's what my folders look like:--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Terry -I really don't know what the problem is. My post above regarding installation is about all I can come up with. I don't recognize your screen shots regarding binaries. No idea what that's about.The folder that houses these files is the one that goes into the sim objects/Airplanes folder in FSX.Like I said undo everthing and start over. Bruce

Terry -I really don't know what the problem is. My post above regarding installation is about all I can come up with. I don't recognize your screen shots regarding binaries. No idea what that's about.The folder that houses these files is the one that goes into the sim objects/Airplanes folder in FSX.Like I said undo everthing and start over. Bruce

Thanks anyway Bruce.Those folders were just my attempt to show you and Al as much as possible. I should have explained that Agent\binaries is simply the place I stored your original ZIP and its various contents. So the top 5 folders were to show you the detailed contents so that you could match with yours.I've shown the full path addresses in all cases to avoid ambiguity.Before arranginging them for my screenshots I started from scratch and think I followed your simple instructions. But something is still plainly wrong! :( The crucial folder, the one you've shown, I understand isC:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\iFDG A319-111 EZYOur contents are identical except that I included \effects, the uncompressed folder from effects.zip. Although I didn't think that was significant, I've now deleted it but it makes no difference.I'll get back on the case later and try again.--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Thanks anyway Bruce.Those folders were just my attempt to show you and Al as much as possible. I should have explained that Agent\binaries is simply the place I stored your original ZIP and its various contents. So the top 5 folders were to show you the detailed contents so that you could match with yours.I've shown the full path addresses in all cases to avoid ambiguity.Before arranginging them for my screenshots I started from scratch and think I followed your simple instructions. But something is still plainly wrong! :( The crucial folder, the one you've shown, I understand isC:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\iFDG A319-111 EZYOur contents are identical except that I included \effects, the uncompressed folder from effects.zip. Although I didn't think that was significant, I've now deleted it but it makes no difference.I'll get back on the case later and try again.--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Terry -Assuming this is your first installation of an iFDG plane I would delete everything from your FSX root folder that has anything to do with iFDG. (start over)It looks like you have the correct iFDG folder in the airplanes folder, but delete it anyway because it had the unzipped Effects files in it.Redo the process of unzipping the file I sent you. Open the unzipped file and copy the IFDG A319-111 EZY file (the one with the aircraft files pictured above) to the sim objects/airplanes folder. You can move it as well, but I always copy.Go back to the unzipped file. Find and unzip the effects file. Inside are the individual effects files. Copy, or move, all those files to the FSX/Effects file. (After that is done I go to the ac folder that I just installed in the FSX/sim objects/Airplanes folder and delete the Effects zip file)That should do it. Start FSX. You should have the airplane available in your selection window and it should have the proper effects installed. This may differ slightly from how others do it, but the end result should be correct. I have a file inside My Documents named *Unzipped*. Whenever I unzip a file it goes there and I send copies of the unzipped files to wherever they should go. When I am done installing and have verified that it works properly I go back and clean out/delete everything in the Unzipped folder.To store copies of all my addons for FSX I created a folder inside My Documents named FSX Addons. Inside that folder I have folders for Payware and Freeware and inside those I have folders for airplanes, repaints, scenery etc, etc. Before I start unzipping and installing I send copies of every addon to this folder.All this may seem a bit condescending, but I certainly don't mean to be. Some times the slightest little mistake can baffle you for a very long time. I have been a rookie at this for almost 10 years----and I do mean a rookie! I have really struggled with a lot of this stuff (but it's kept me out of the bars). :( Bruce

Terry -Assuming this is your first installation of an iFDG plane I would delete everything from your FSX root folder that has anything to do with iFDG. (start over)It looks like you have the correct iFDG folder in the airplanes folder, but delete it anyway because it had the unzipped Effects files in it.Redo the process of unzipping the file I sent you. Open the unzipped file and copy the IFDG A319-111 EZY file (the one with the aircraft files pictured above) to the sim objects/airplanes folder. You can move it as well, but I always copy.Go back to the unzipped file. Find and unzip the effects file. Inside are the individual effects files. Copy, or move, all those files to the FSX/Effects file. (After that is done I go to the ac folder that I just installed in the FSX/sim objects/Airplanes folder and delete the Effects zip file)That should do it. Start FSX. You should have the airplane available in your selection window and it should have the proper effects installed. This may differ slightly from how others do it, but the end result should be correct. I have a file inside My Documents named *Unzipped*. Whenever I unzip a file it goes there and I send copies of the unzipped files to wherever they should go. When I am done installing and have verified that it works properly I go back and clean out/delete everything in the Unzipped folder.To store copies of all my addons for FSX I created a folder inside My Documents named FSX Addons. Inside that folder I have folders for Payware and Freeware and inside those I have folders for airplanes, repaints, scenery etc, etc. Before I start unzipping and installing I send copies of every addon to this folder.All this may seem a bit condescending, but I certainly don't mean to be. Some times the slightest little mistake can baffle you for a very long time. I have been a rookie at this for almost 10 years----and I do mean a rookie! I have really struggled with a lot of this stuff (but it's kept me out of the bars). :( Bruce

Whoa, whoa, whoa!!! Terry--- I think I know what the problem is!! MY FAULT too!!!The file I sent you is an FS2004 iFDG file!! The panel and sounds are aliased to the FS9 737-400. They have to be replaced with the FSX Airbus panel and sounds!!! Apologies to you and anyone else!! I have to go to my flying computer now and sort this out, but I believe that is the problem.I have an FSX Addon file on this computer too and I sent you the file from here without looking at the contents more closely. I'll get back to you shortly.Stand by!!Bruce

Whoa, whoa, whoa!!! Terry--- I think I know what the problem is!! MY FAULT too!!!The file I sent you is an FS2004 iFDG file!! The panel and sounds are aliased to the FS9 737-400. They have to be replaced with the FSX Airbus panel and sounds!!! Apologies to you and anyone else!! I have to go to my flying computer now and sort this out, but I believe that is the problem.I have an FSX Addon file on this computer too and I sent you the file from here without looking at the contents more closely. I'll get back to you shortly.Stand by!!Bruce

Terry -I just e-mailed you a copy of the actual iFDG A319 that I have installed in my FSX airplanes folder. Hope that does it!!Bruce

Terry -I just e-mailed you a copy of the actual iFDG A319 that I have installed in my FSX airplanes folder. Hope that does it!!Bruce

Thanks Bruce, that's a relief - I was totally at a loss! I'll install that tomorrow.Meanwhile I found and installed another Easyjet Airbus earlier today:Many thanks for your patient help on this.Best wishes,--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Thanks Bruce, that's a relief - I was totally at a loss! I'll install that tomorrow.Meanwhile I found and installed another Easyjet Airbus earlier today:Many thanks for your patient help on this.Best wishes,--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Terry -That looks like the very same one I just sent you G-EZBR!! Looks like you're in business! If the one you found works then disregard what I sent you. Let me know. (that picture is larger than the forum rules allow, I believe. It might get yanked)I just took off from Malaga headed back to Gatwick to see if I can smoke the tires on landing (making a video).Bruce

Terry -That looks like the very same one I just sent you G-EZBR!! Looks like you're in business! If the one you found works then disregard what I sent you. Let me know. (that picture is larger than the forum rules allow, I believe. It might get yanked)

That's a happy coincidence! Yes, it works OK, although it will be a lot better when I learn how to fly it - or at least set it up nicely for some 'outside views'. I tried to locate my earlier screenshot over Gravetye Manor, but reckon that will take a bit more study. :( (Sorry about the size; I've now halved it.)I

I just took off from Malaga headed back to Gatwick to see if I can smoke the tires on landing (making a video).

If you succeed, I'll replace that section of my extract.--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

That's a happy coincidence! Yes, it works OK, although it will be a lot better when I learn how to fly it - or at least set it up nicely for some 'outside views'. I tried to locate my earlier screenshot over Gravetye Manor, but reckon that will take a bit more study. :( (Sorry about the size; I've now halved it.)IIf you succeed, I'll replace that section of my extract.--Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Well there was no smoke on touchdown at Gatwick, but you can see the video here. There is a long tower view of the landing that you might be able to use in your holiday video. I have added all the effects files for the A320 to the FSX effects files and am about to take off from Gatwick to Paris La Bourget to see if that does the trick.http://www.vimeo.com/12537812You got a shot of Gravetye from FSX? I'd be very interested in seeing that!! Windsor Castle, Hampton Court Palace and some other landmarks are in there, but I seriously doubt Gravetye is!! Good luck on that one!Terry, I could show you how to fly these simple default aircraft (took me a long time to get the hang of it) but it would cost you an airline ticket and about 4 nights at the Gravetye!! Hah!! Seriously though, there are a bunch of really good sim pilots right around you over there Chock (AL) is one of them. The best FS video guy in the business lives over by Heathrow, edtroit (Ed) He is an awesome sim pilot and video maker. Flies the really sophisticated stuff and by the book too. You should try to get with one of these guys for a day.Here's a pic I took of Gravetye when I was there in about 1982--- Bruce

Okay, just for you, since you want to learn how to fly the things, here's a quick tutorial on how to take off from, and then land back at Malaga. This is not absolutely how to do things in a perfectly textbook fashion, but you can worry about that later and it should be enough to get you into the swing of things...First, set yourself up in the default B737 on runway 14 at Malaga. When your sim loads, apply the parking brake with Control+Period key, and start the engines with Control+E.Next, look at the radio panel on the central pedestal to your right and change the standby frequencies on the Nav 1 and Nav 2 radios to 109.90, and then click the transfer buttons so that 109.90 is the active frequency for both Nav radios:Next look at the mode control panel (MCP) and enter the settings you see in the picture below, i.e. course 315, speed 215, heading 133, altitude 3000, vertical speed 500, and then click on the heading and altitude buttons so that they both light up in green.Next, pull the flap lever two notches, so that you have 5 degrees of flap selected. Then, release the parking brake and smoothly advance the throttles all the way to the firewall. Keep the stick slightly forward and watch the airspeed build on the indicator on the left side of the primary flight display. When the speed gets to about 150 knots, slowly and smoothly bring the stick back so that the nose lifts off the runway, watch the primary flight display and centre the stick when you are in a ten degree climb, which is indicated by the first white bar on the blue section of the PFD:Your speed should be rapidly building and when you are certain you are in a climb, hit 'G' to raise the landing gear, and retract the flaps as you approach around the 200 knot speed mark. It will be simpler if you now hit pause (P) and shift your view to the MCP and do the following: select A/T Arm and then click on the speed selector button so that it lights up in green, and then on the other end of the MCP, hit the CMD button to engage the autopilot. Confirm that speed, altitude and heading are all lit up and being guided automatically and that speed is being controlled by the autothrottle.You aircraft should now be going up in a gentle climb at 215 knots on a heading of 133 degrees, which was the heading you were on when you left the runway. The coast should be in front of you, and as you get near to it, change your heading selection on the MCP to 178 degrees, which should put you in a gentle turn to the right before you level off again on the new heading. We chose 178 degrees because it added 45 degrees to our 133 heading, because we are going to loop around in a wide teardrop shape and come back into Malaga on a reciprocal course and land on the runway in the opposite direction from which we took off.When your aircraft levels off on heading 178, wait for approximately one minute and then turn your heading selector on the MCP so that it starts counting down and set it on 025 degrees. This should put you in a left turn. Reduce your speed setting to 150 knots and feed in full flaps and drop your landing gear. Then select VOR/LOC on the MCP so it illuminates:Selecting VOR/LOC will make your autopilot track the radio beacon which operates the Instrument Landing System at Malaga for runway 31. This is why we tuned both Nav radios to 109.90, as that is the ILS beacon's frequency. We also selected 315 in the course window on the MCP before we took off. 315 is the heading of the runway we are going to land on. If we have the correct runway heading entered in the course windows, and the ILS frequency tuned on both Nav radios, we can do an automatic instrument landing. You should be able to sit back for a while and you will see that the aircraft will come around to a heading of 025, and then it will start to line itself up on a heading for an approach to the runway. At this point, you should drop the speed back to about 140 knots using the MCP speed setting and also arm the speed brakes so that they will deploy when you land. Shift+the forward slash key will arm the speed brakes, or you can do it manually by pulling the speed brake lever back a couple of inches to its first notch:You'll probably be a fair distance out from the runway, so you can take a look at some of the instruments and see what they are telling you:As you near the runway, you will see the pink glideslope indicator begin to move down the right hand side of the PFD. That is because we are flying into the extended glideslope beam from underneath it. When the glideslope indicator gets to the point shown on the above picture, you will need to select the APP button on the MCP to commence your automatic approach. In more complex simulated airliners, you would also have to hit a second CMD button so that two autopilots are flying the aircraft for the landing (this is a safety precaution in the real world, but for the default FS B737, there is only one autopilot, so you'll only have to click on the APP button and nothing else):What should now happen, is the aircraft will track the localiser and the glideslope, heading down for the runway. You can back the speed off a little more if you like to 135 knots, but make sure those flaps are all the way out!As you near the runway, start concentrating on the altitude indicator on the right hand side of the PFD:When you come over the threshhold of the runway at about 100-200 feet, you should retard the throttle and disengage the autopilot (turn off the CMD button) and the autothrottle (turn off the A/T arm switch). It helps if you pause the sim to do that, or use keyboard shortcuts, because in the real world there are two people doing that stuff!With the autopilot off and the autothrottle off, the aircraft should coast down to the runway, and all you will need to do is flare it slightly by easing the stick back a little as the aircraft gets to about 50 feet off the ground. when it lands, keep it there by getting the stick forward and if you like you can use the brakes or even hit the reverse thrust (F2 key). The spoilers should have come out automatically because you armed them, but check it and if they haven't, you can deploy them manually with the forward slash key.With a bit of luck, you should be down in one piece, and if you go up to the menu options in FS and choose replay, you can watch it all again and make a movie out of it.Hope that helps a bit.Al

Okay, just for you, since you want to learn how to fly the things, here's a quick tutorial on how to take off from, and then land back at Malaga. ...[FULLY ILLUSTRATED TUTORIAL]...Hope that helps a bit.Al

Wow! That's just terrific, Al, thank you so much. I'll set aside time soon and step through it methodically. It goes straight into my 'Keep forever' folder! :( --Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Well there was no smoke on touchdown at Gatwick, but you can see the video here. There is a long tower view of the landing that you might be able to use in your holiday video. I have added all the effects files for the A320 to the FSX effects files and am about to take off from Gatwick to Paris La Bourget to see if that does the trick.http://www.vimeo.com/12537812

Superb, thanks a bunch. I'm going to find a way to include a short extract in my DVD - although we never actually made that return flight! In our hotel in the village of Zuheros we learned of the volcanish ash crisis on the day before our scheduled return due from Malaga to Gatwick on 17th April. And on Sunday our travel agent told us our flight had been re-scheduled for 23rd April - although it remained highly unceratin whether even that would happen if the volcano didn't cease spewing ash. To summarise a long and painful tale, we organised our own return by a complex and expensive route. Starting on 20th April, it took 30 hours door-to-door and included taxi to Grandada, Ryannair (a first for me) from Granada to Girona, taxi to Perpignan railway station, overnight on the floor there, TGV to Paris following morning, long wait (mainly spent wandering around DisneyLand Village), Eurostar to Ebbsfleet, and finally taxi to home. So maybe that section will be "How we should have got home." :(

You got a shot of Gravetye from FSX? I'd be very interested in seeing that!! Windsor Castle, Hampton Court Palace and some other landmarks are in there, but I seriously doubt Gravetye is!! Good luck on that one!

The best I can do so far is this (with the right wingtip roughly over your camera position for the photo above):(I have Horizon Simulation's VFR Photographic Scenery Generation X for England.)

Terry, I could show you how to fly these simple default aircraft (took me a long time to get the hang of it) but it would cost you an airline ticket and about 4 nights at the Gravetye!! Hah!! Seriously though, there are a bunch of really good sim pilots right around you over there Chock (AL) is one of them. The best FS video guy in the business lives over by Heathrow, edtroit (Ed) He is an awesome sim pilot and video maker. Flies the really sophisticated stuff and by the book too. You should try to get with one of these guys for a day.

Al has generously created a detailed tutorial for me, which I'll follow as soon as I get time.

Here's a pic I took of Gravetye when I was there in about 1982---

Gets you ready for those log fires inside, doesn't it? :( --Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Forgot to mention. If anything is unclear on that little quick tutorial, feel free to PM me or post questions in this thread. We will make an airline pilot out of you yet :( Al

Okay, it's fairly simple to install new paint jobs in FS once you know how. If you look in the folder where the default Boeing 737 is, which will somewhere like be this..C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\B737_800You'll see a number of files and folders. The folders named Texture.1, Texture.2, Texture.3, Texture.4, Texture.5 and Texture.6 are where all the different paint jobs for the 737 live, with each folder being a different livery. So what you will need to do, is right click on one of those, choose 'copy' and then click off it and hit Control+V to paste it, which will give you a new folder called something like 'Copy of texture.1'. Now having done that, open up the text in the main 737 folder called 'aircraft' (you can open it with Notepad on a PC by right clicking on and choosing to do that).When it opens, you will see a big long text file, and at the top, you will see this:[fltsim.0]title=Boeing 737-800 Paint1sim=Boeing737-800model=panel=sound=texture=1kb_checklists=Boeing737-800_checkkb_reference=Boeing737-800_refatc_id=N737Watc_airline=Boeingatc_flight_number=ui_manufacturer="Boeing"ui_type="737-800"ui_variation="Boeing livery"ui_typerole="Commercial Airliner"ui_createdby="Microsoft Corporation"description="One should hardly be surprised that the world's most prolific manufacturer of commercial aircraft is also the producer of the world's most popular jetliner. The 737 became the best-selling commercial jetliner worldwide when orders for it hit 1,831 in June 1987 (surpassing Boeing's own 727 as the previous champ). However, it wasn't always that way\s in the first few years of production, there were so few orders that Boeing considered canceling the program. They didn't, and the airplane has more than proven itself in over three decades of service."[fltsim.1]title=Boeing 737-800 Paint2sim=Boeing737-800model=panel=sound=texture=2kb_checklists=Boeing737-800_checkkb_reference=Boeing737-800_refatc_id=N737Xatc_airline=World Travelatc_flight_number=ui_manufacturer="Boeing"ui_type="737-800"ui_variation="World Travel Airlines"ui_typerole="Commercial Airliner"ui_createdby="Microsoft Corporation"description="One should hardly be surprised that the world's most prolific manufacturer of commercial aircraft is also the producer of the world's most popular jetliner. The 737 became the best-selling commercial jetliner worldwide when orders for it hit 1,831 in June 1987 (surpassing Boeing's own 727 as the previous champ). However, it wasn't always that way\s in the first few years of production, there were so few orders that Boeing considered canceling the program. They didn't, and the airplane has more than proven itself in over three decades of service."[fltsim.2]title=Boeing 737-800 Paint4sim=Boeing737-800model=panel=sound=texture=4kb_checklists=Boeing737-800_checkkb_reference=Boeing737-800_refatc_id=N737Tatc_airline=Orbitatc_flight_number=ui_manufacturer="Boeing"ui_type="737-800"ui_variation="Orbit Airlines"ui_typerole="Commercial Airliner"ui_createdby="Microsoft Corporation"description="One should hardly be surprised that the world's most prolific manufacturer of commercial aircraft is also the producer of the world's most popular jetliner. The 737 became the best-selling commercial jetliner worldwide when orders for it hit 1,831 in June 1987 (surpassing Boeing's own 727 as the previous champ). However, it wasn't always that way\s in the first few years of production, there were so few orders that Boeing considered canceling the program. They didn't, and the airplane has more than proven itself in over three decades of service."[fltsim.3]title=Boeing 737-800 Paint5sim=Boeing737-800model=panel=sound=texture=5kb_checklists=Boeing737-800_checkkb_reference=Boeing737-800_refatc_id=N737Tatc_airline=Pacificaatc_flight_number=ui_manufacturer="Boeing"ui_type="737-800"ui_variation="Pacifica Airlines"ui_typerole="Commercial Airliner"ui_createdby="Microsoft Corporation"description="One should hardly be surprised that the world's most prolific manufacturer of commercial aircraft is also the producer of the world's most popular jetliner. The 737 became the best-selling commercial jetliner worldwide when orders for it hit 1,831 in June 1987 (surpassing Boeing's own 727 as the previous champ). However, it wasn't always that way\s in the first few years of production, there were so few orders that Boeing considered canceling the program. They didn't, and the airplane has more than proven itself in over three decades of service."[fltsim.4]title=Boeing 737-800 Paint6sim=Boeing737-800model=panel=sound=texture=6kb_checklists=Boeing737-800_checkkb_reference=Boeing737-800_refatc_id=N737Tatc_airline=atc_flight_number=ui_manufacturer="Boeing"ui_type="737-800"ui_variation="Unmarked Airliner"ui_typerole="Commercial Airliner"ui_createdby="Microsoft Corporation"description="One should hardly be surprised that the world's most prolific manufacturer of commercial aircraft is also the producer of the world's most popular jetliner. The 737 became the best-selling commercial jetliner worldwide when orders for it hit 1,831 in June 1987 (surpassing Boeing's own 727 as the previous champ). However, it wasn't always that way\s in the first few years of production, there were so few orders that Boeing considered canceling the program. They didn't, and the airplane has more than proven itself in over three decades of service."[fltsim.5]title=Boeing 737-800sim=Boeing737-800model=panel=sound=texture=kb_checklists=Boeing737-800_checkkb_reference=Boeing737-800_refatc_id=N737Zatc_airline=atc_flight_number=ui_manufacturer="Boeing"ui_type="737-800"ui_variation="White"ui_typerole="Commercial Airliner"ui_createdby="Microsoft Corporation"description="One should hardly be surprised that the world's most prolific manufacturer of commercial aircraft is also the producer of the world's most popular jetliner. The 737 became the best-selling commercial jetliner worldwide when orders for it hit 1,831 in June 1987 (surpassing Boeing's own 727 as the previous champ). However, it wasn't always that way\s in the first few years of production, there were so few orders that Boeing considered canceling the program. They didn't, and the airplane has more than proven itself in over three decades of service."Each one of those sections which start with a [fltsim.XX] header, is related to the different paint jobs that come with the default 737, so you will need to add an extra section below all those, to tell FSX that there is another paint job available in a new folder. That text is probably what the 'aircraft txt' file is, that was part of your Easyjet download, and so you should just be able to open that up, copy the relevant bit and then paste it into your original aircraft text file in FS below the ones that are already there. That then tells FS where to find the folder that has your Easyjet paint job, so what you will then probably have to do, is put the textures that were in your download into that duplicate texture folder you created, and then rename that folder so that it corresponds with the name listed in the bit of text you got, at the part where it says this kind of thing:texture=Easyjet (or whatever it is called)So all you should need to then do, is rename that 'Copy of texture.1' folder to 'Easyjet' or whatever, and FS will then know to look in that folder for the files that contain that paint job which you have placed in it. Note that you do sometimes have to change the bit in the aircraft file where it says [fltsim.XX] to the next consecutive number in a list if that has not been already done for you in the text file that was part of your download.So, here is what you will do as a quick recap. Duplicate a 737 texture folder, put the downloaded textures in that folder (they will overwrite the ones in there), open up the aircraft config text file and add an additional paint job reference text section and ensure it points to the correct folder for that paint job. That's it, but note that it is not a bad idea to make a copy of your aircraft config file and put it somewhere safe before you mess with anything in this fashion, that way if anything goes amiss, you can sort things out easily.If you get stuck, post again in this thread.Al