FSX will break out your airplanes by manufacturer, publisher or type. It will not factor analyze by livery, ie., airline.

Assume you want to fly across England, and you would like to fly an airplane with an English livery. Let's say, British Airways. How to find the BA airplanes in your computer without slogging through them one by one - a task I would hesitate to embark upon as I have over a hundred airplanes, each one with numerous liveries.

Well, it can be done. Access the Airplanes file folder with Windows Explorer. Then, in the box in the upper right hand corner that says "Search Libraries", enter "texture.[desired airline]". Here you would use "texture.British". Then, scroll down the results until you find the yellow airline texture folders, and the planes with British Airways textures will be listed. You would also want to try "Texture", as well as "ba","BA", "Brit" or any other possibilities that you might have used in setting up your airplanes

Of course, you are out of luck if you have listed your textures by number. "Texture.4" is obviously no help. But you can always go through the airplanes that are cataloged that way and re-list them. Probably worth the effort if your are going to use this idea, not true?

You can widen the search by starting higher up the folder tree, let's say "Microsoft Flight Simulator X". But the search may be slow if your search area, or part thereof, is not indexed. There are, however, extremely fast, free programs that will index and search of your entire system, including satellite drives.

You could also use "findstr" from a DOS window to read the "atc_airline=" entries in your aircraft.cfgs and write them to a text file.

 

findstr /s /i /c:"atc_airline=" aircraft.cfg > airlines.csv

 

Run it from the SimObjects\Airplanes folder and look for airlines.csv there when it finishes. Drag airlines.csv into Notepad and use "replace" to replace all occurances of "\aircraft.cfg:atc_airline=" with "," (comma). Save and double click to open in MS Excel. There do select all, then Format > Column > Autofit selection. Sort the airline column A-Z and delete the blank lines at the bottom (the aircraft which don't have an atc_airline defined). Save as .xls and you've got a nice list that you can open whenever you need it.

 

Sounds complicated but it takes less than a minute to do the whole process actually.

 

Jim