You just cut the aircraft from your aircraft folder you don't use and created a folder somewhere else and pasted them in there, does that cause no errors etc?Paul.

My FS takes about 70 and 90 seconds on my desktop and laptop respectively between double clicking on the icon and sitting on the ground at KSEA in the 172. A fresh install of FS without FS global, lots of add on planes and UT AI loads much quicker, but it is also much more boring. ;) I just accept it now.Gary

---------------------------------------------You just cut the aircraft from your aircraft folder you don't use and created a folder somewhere else and pasted them in there, does that cause no errors etc?---------------------------------------------No errors at all :) It works really well:1. You are not "losing" any planes, you are just moving them.2. Just plonk them back into the Aircraft folder if you want to fly them....shunt them in and out as required.

>Hello. I was having the same problem as you. I have loads of>planes and add-on scenery. The latter is difficult to have>direct control over but you can easily fix the load-problem>when it comes to planes.>>I just made another folder and named it "Airplane Hanger".>Into this have I dumped the planes (panels, sounds and all) I>seldom fly..which amounts to 10GB.>>FS9s load time has now been cut in half.>>Just for kicks I dumped *all* my planes into this folder>leaving just one behind.>>FS9 loaded to the "Create a Flight" screen in 8 seconds (I>timed it).>>Give this is a try in case you already have'nt :) An>eye-opener to me was the sheer number of planes I hardly>touched! All just bogging the sim down!you are so right, I barely use 80% of the aircraft. but if i move fs aircraft will it affect AI aircraft. some of the aircraft descriptions describe them as AI aircraft. I will try this. very helpful

>Just to clarify it loads the default flight in the background>during the inialization (splash screen) before the menus>pop-up.>>My firewall application always notes that FS is attempting to>use the network even though I have no multiplayer set up.>There may be a net time-out before it continues to load.>>FS on start-up does lots on index verification on sceneries.>When I added FS Global 2005 the start-up time increased. I>have lots of scenery. You can note this check when after>adding tg the scenery lib it instructs you to restart FS. With>that or any changes in scenery folders included in the>scenery.cfg as evidence of the verification you will get a>start-up notice that it is rebuilding the scenery database.>True i get that message everytime i add an afcad etc. but sorry tosound stupid what is "tg"P

Yes give it a try...to make it more efficient (and easy to find your planes) use this structure:Aircraft Hanger -Addon Aircraft :)

"tg" was a typo for "to" :)

Do i create those folders with in the main aircraft folder or outside of it?Paul.

Paul-You can create them anywhere but I suggest you create them outside the FS9 folder entirely. For example:c:Airplane Hanger orc:Program FilesAirplane Hangeretc...These folders have nothing to do with FS9 and the program will not even know you have created them. All it cares about is what is in your FS9/Aircraft folder :) If a plane/s are there it will read & load them, if not...it doesnt care (and your load-times will reduce!)Hope that helps!And as always - back up your planes to DVD or CDs!