I wish there was an option to load up without having to select an airplane so that you can save all your resources just for plane spotting. Is there a way you can do this? I don't want to fly, but just load up into an airport and use the drone camera to do some plane spotting with FSLTL.

use a cessna or any small aircraft perhaps?

You could try deleting the model and texture folder for a livery you don't use (particularly for a small aircraft) and load that aircraft as it will still be listed in the aircraft.cfg file.

Example:  Path is your chosen aircraft's folder    \SimObjects\Airplanes\xxxx  where xxxx is the name of the aircraft

Before                                                                                                                                                                                         After

           

Doing the above still leaves an entry in the aircraft selection window in the sim but it spawns as an invisible plane. In the above case, I could probably have deleted the checklist folder too, maybe some of the other files, but I was only experimenting. No idea how much difference it makes to resource use - you'd need to decide for yourself. Just make sure any folders you delete aren't used by other versions of the aircraft you do this to. I had already deleted all but the default livery of the above example.

And definitely leave the deleted folders in your Recycle Bin until you are sure it doesn't cause any issues. Finally, probably best to do it with an add-on aircraft than a default one, just to be on the safe side.

Edited October 16, 20223 yr by 109Sqn
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