I was sure I saw something a month ago that would edit aircraft.cfg files and comment out the repaints you don't use. But I searched for an hour and can't find it. Anyone remember this? No, I'm not thinking of Dave Nunez's Aircraft Manager (which is great for other things).

TweakFS FSX Aircraft Toolbox will allow you to enable or disable an entire aircraft folder or if you do not want to disable the entire aircraft you can use Aircraft Toolbox to edit the aircraft.cfg and remove the variants that you do not want to use. The program will automatically backup the original aircraft.cfg so that you may revert to it at any time.

Sargeski's comments are dead right. TweakFS FSX Aircraft Toolbox is a great, easy to use program for this purpose. It is payware however.It shows all of your aircraft and you simply uncheck the ones you want to hangar and hit the update key and voila it is done. It seperates the active aircraft from the inactive aircraft. You can also use it to view all of your aircraft with basic info about each. I use it almost everyday. It speeds up loading of FSX and makes finding what you want to fly easier.

I dont have that program but what I do is have multiple folders. Like this:AirplanesAirplanes.GAAirplanes.MilitaryAirplanes.BizzjetsAirplanes.TestAirplanes.AirbusAirplanes.BoeingAirplanes.RussianThe renamed ones act as a hangar. FSX loadups very fast this way. If you wanna fly something else just a case of a quick rename. The .Test folder has just the default C172 in it so an addon plane is easily tested (FSX will only load the C172 and the plane youre testing). Its working very well for me. The app you all mention does it much slicker of course but for a quick and happy method of managing airplane-loads this works good. If you hadrly ever fly airliners why have all your gazillion Boeings being loaded? :(

Wow, that's actually really clever...I definitely need to start doing that (especially FS9 that has over 2000 variants with all my AI and such).Thanks for posting this!

Aircraft Analyzer (ACA2005) does this in FS9 with AI aircraft. It has the ability to remove paints that are not used in flight plans. It is a great feature if you are constantly installing new repaints for your AI. The only hitch was that you had to do edits one by one.They are working on and new ACA2010 for FSX and I believe it will have the ability to remove paints in bulk.If I recall correctly, you can remove any paint you want - doesn't have to be AI.ACA2005 can be made to work with FSX but you will have to change some directories.http://aifs.pvdveen.net/

Thanks for the suggestions. So far, though, what I'm finding are ways to hangar whole planes; what I'm looking for is something more granular, that can hangar liveries. Maybe the new version of the program duckbilled mentioned will do that, but the current one can't. TweakFS looks good, but from what I can tell reading the documentation, it archives aircraft not textures.

Thanks for the suggestions. So far, though, what I'm finding are ways to hangar whole planes; what I'm looking for is something more granular, that can hangar liveries. Maybe the new version of the program duckbilled mentioned will do that, but the current one can't. TweakFS looks good, but from what I can tell reading the documentation, it archives aircraft not textures.

I'm thinking about ADDIT. There is a version for both simulators. It's more than that but a feature is to set a plane to "hide".RV

HelloI use Addit! pro by Joseph Stearns to hide variants, http://www.byteforge.com/products/ap_fsx/features.htmI also use it for managing my scenery.When I bought it I contacted the author and asked about a registration key for the FS9 versionwhich he kindly gave me for free, great service.The freeware version is in the library for anyone to try outFilename: apxv731.zipLicense: Shareware, limited functionalityAdded: 30th November 2009Downloads: 666Author: Joseph StearnsSize: 10913kb

HelloI use Addit! pro by Joseph Stearns to hide variants,

Not quite correct. If the variant is in a different FOLDER - you can hide it - but if it's a different variant within the aircraft.cfg file it will hide the entire airctaft set.For example - the default P-51 Racer has 8 variants - if you hide ANY of them - you hide ALL of them.Only way I know of currently to hide a specific variant in the cfg file is to comment out the section manually.Vic

Only way I know of currently to hide a specific variant in the cfg file is to comment out the section manually.

Exactly; but somewhere out there there's a program that will comment out the section for you. One thing I do remember: it used more comment characters than are strictly necessary.

HelloYou are both correct that the hide function will hide the complete aircraftBut Addit! pro will hide any single repaint by using the Aircraft variant add/remove menu entry.What happens with this function is that it first makes a copy of your Aircraft.CFG to Aircraft.apbThen it removes the entry from the original Aircraft.cfg and then renumbers the entries.This is non destructive as the texture folder is untouched, only the aircraft.cfg entry is removed.To restore the variants select this menu entry

Thanx Mad Dog - I was not aware of that operation.Say you have an a/c with 7 variants and you remove one. Now lets say a little later your want to remove another - does it overwrite the original .apb file or create another?Then say you want to restore the first one but not the second. If you restore the original you get both back, correct?Seems if you're not careful you could lose some data, or have I missed something else?Thanx,Vic

HelloFrom what I have observed it backs up the Aircraft.cfg as aircraft.apb when you remove the first variantthen does not overwrite that file again.To restore a variant does in fact restore all of the previously removed variants ie your back to your original Aircraft.cfgwith all variants again available.Not perfect and I am still testing this out, but I haven't found any other program since the old FSAom that did this correctly.

Understood. Haven't purchased it yet but probably will. Perhaps the ability to selectively add/remove variants can go on a wish list.