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Unwanted description in aircraft.cfg

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Hi,in the aircraft.cfg files there are a line called "description". Sometimes I delete some text there that takes a lot of lines (making the fltsim.number sections far too spacy). However, the text keeps automatically comming back. Here is an example: description=From the most successful family of jetliners ever built comes the 737-400. This can be your entry into virtual airline flying. Whether you're making short-haul or longer domestic flights, the 737-400 is a versatile and efficient airplane. See the Aircraft Information section of Help for tips on flying this aircraft. How can I get rid of this text for good ? Someone feeling my pain out there ? Regards, Carl

It's really not big of a deal. Make sure to delete the description from every variation.

Don't forget that a lot of addons use the basic 737 model for flight dynamics etc. So each plane you fly you will have to edit the aircraft.cfg file to delete the description and it will sometimes be the stock 737 description that you've posted above. But once you have and you've saved the document, I can't see how it could come back. But in the mysterious world of flight sim, all things are possible of course! LOLGood luck

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Thanks to you all,the text surely comes back "on its own" and of course I've deleted the text in every section, leaving the "description=" without any additional text. And surely I save the ac.cfg each time I make changes I want to keep.LOL.gif I wonder if anyone experience the same as I do. Otherwise the FS seems to have thrown a spell on me....? Carl

Not FS, but your operating system. You are probably using Vista or Win7 and have the FS installation inside the Program Files folder. Your OS considers editing files inside that folder a no - no. Try this: 1. Copy the aircraft.cfg file to the desktop.2. Make your changes.3. Copy it back, overwriting the original file. Hope this helps,

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Not FS, but your operating system. You are probably using Vista or Win7 and have the FS installation inside the Program Files folder. Your OS considers editing files inside that folder a no - no. Try this: 1. Copy the aircraft.cfg file to the desktop.2. Make your changes.3. Copy it back, overwriting the original file. Hope this helps,
Thanks for your response. I will certainly try that, although I have installed FS directly in a seperate hard drive which also is a single partition. However you'r right about the OS; I have W7, and I never had such spooky experience with the previous XP-installation. Carl
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Hi again,it seems I finally found the text source and how to solve the problem. The text comes from the air-file (the file refered to in the cfg-file in the line "sim=").The problem occurs for those fltsim.-sections where the line "description=" doesn't have any additional text (is empty). By some occasion, I'm not sure which, the aircraft cfg. will read what's in the air file that correspond to the line "description=" and copy tthis text to the line. This means that for every fltsim.-section that allready have some text for the line "description=" will not get an additional text copied from the air-file.To solve the problem one have to mark the description line with any sign (like; description=/). To open the air-file and remove just the text concerned makes the air file not working anymore (FS crashes when traffic is activated and the any of the AC's corrected are active in the AI-machine for the present area in the sim.For those aircraft folders that have air-files without text meant for the description in the cfg-file, the problem I have brought up will not occure.Voila,Carl

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