Hi,I have recently been trying to install AI, successfully through WoAI (as it is a self install package) and unsuccesfully through PAI then making the models AI Aardvark, Evolve AI etc.Could someone please help me change the models, i have tried downloading the models and the textures, copied it into the PAI733 folder for example in addon aircraft and then put in the new models Aircraft.cfg instead of the PAI one, but nothing appears in FS!Please, could anyone help me? I really want to get my AI up and running (with high quality models) but am having this problem.Brandon

To get them showing in FS, you need flightplans to run them.The planes, whatever they are (PAI, Evolve, Aardvark) are just planes. Installed in the normal way.Then you've got to either manually edit the flightplans.txt, aircraft.txt and airports.txt files for each flightplan to associate them to the planes.These installers do everything for you, so you tend to lose sight of what they are actually doing. All they are doing is installing the planes, decompiling your traffic file, making the changes to it and recompiling it back again to inslude the new flights.First step is to add the texture to your plane in the normal way and check if it shows in the FS aircraft selection menu. If it does, the plane's gone in ok. Now you just have to make it's flightplans.

I suggest downloading ttools202.zip (Traffic Tools by Lee Swordy). He includes a readme html file that includes everything you ever need to know to create traffic files including how to write flight plans.Cheers,PD

Indeed - ttools is a must for anyone at all interested in modifying AI.In this case all you need to do Brandon is rename the relevant referenced aircraft in aircraft.txt and recompile - no need to touch the flightplans.txt at all.regards,Markhttp://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/747400.jpgXPHomeSP2/FS9.1/3.2HT/1024mb/X700pro256

Hi,The new aircraft should NOT be installed in the PAI plane's folder. They should be installed into their own folder, inside the FS AIRCRAFT folder.Then you need to do one of the following:1. Change the title= line of the new plane to match that of the old PAI plane (copy and paste it). Then add something to the title= line of the old PAI plane so it's now different (each plane must have a unique title). Add something like OLD to the end.OR2. Deompile the traffic file with TTools, and change the plane's line in the resulting aircraft text file, changing what's inside the quotes to that of the contents of the new plane's title= line (to the right of the equals sign). Then recompile the files using TTools.Hope this helps,--Tom GibsonCal Classic Propliner Page: http://www.calclassic.comFreeflight Design Shop: http://www.freeflightdesign.comDrop by! ___x_x_(")_x_x___