I am very happy with my AI setup - mostly World-of-AI stuff.  But occasionally I will see an aircraft who's time to replace it has come.  Then I see some nice single AI models available in the downloads library.  So my question is perhaps there is a little applet that will let me say "replace this A318 (as an example), with this new A318, and the little applet does all the work for me.  Is there such a program?

 

 

I don't know of a "little applet", but large AI programs like AI Flight Planner and AI Traffic Mover can do that.  However, it is almost as easy to do it yourself - just edit the aircraft.txt file for that airline, replacing the existing aircraft title with the new plane's title= line.  Then recompile.

Or you could edit the aircraft.cfg and use the title= line from the old A318 for the new A318.

 

Remember to change the title= line for the old A318 so you do not have any duplicates.

 

regards,

Joe

Would it not be a little more involved than that?  I mean I am thinking, sure I can swap old model for new model but what if new model has more variants (or less) than the old model?  I would think every flight plan involving the model would have to be checked to ensure there is still a livery for that current flight?  That could be dozen's or 100's of flights!

 

I have AI Flight planner but could not find a selection to do what I was hoping.  May be there but worded differently

If your old model has 3 variants and your new model has 5, you could swap out the 3 straight up. If you want to use the other 2 new variants you would have to edit the *traffic.bgl and assign them to a/some flightplans.

 

If your new model only has 3 and the old model has 5, you would have to 1) modify the *traffic.bgl and assign the 2 now non-existent flightplans to a/some of the 3 new variants, or 2) add 2 new [fltsim.nn] sections to the new aircraft.cfg using the 2 unused title= lines.

 

Unless your new model has more variants you are only going to deal with the aircraft.cfg or the aircraft_*txt portion of the traffic_*.bgl.

 

If your new model does have more variants than the old one you will also have to edit the flightplans_*.txt to assign them some flights.

 

regards,

Joe

The simple ways to handle the last situation (old model has 5 variants, the new one only 3) are :

 

1.  Leave two of the variants pointing to the old model

or

2.  For the two extra listings in the aircraft.txt file pointing to the old model, just change them to two of the 3 variants of the new model (you can have duplicate aircraft listings in the aircraft.txt file, no problem).

 

For the other situation (old model has 3 and new model has 5 variants), just use 3 of the new variants (your favorites).  If you really want to see the other two, then you will indeed have to add those two to the aircraft.txt file with new AC numbers and change some of the flight plans to use those variants.

 

Finally, I'm sure AIFP can do something like that (I know that AITM can) - post the question on the AIFP forum:

 

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=100&order=desc