How do you design an aircraft for FS2004 (or FS2002)? Is there some FREE program out there? FS2002 came with gmax, but I couldn't figure it out.

Well, the same goes for FS2004. The GMAX that came with FS2002 is the same program, along with FSDS 2, that one uses to design aircraft for FS2004. There are alot of excellent tutorials on GMAX. www.simviation.com and www.freeflightdesign.com are just some of the MANY places you'll find tutorials on creating add-ons for flightsim. You'll just have to decide where and with what to start with!:)**By the way, sooner or later, someone is probably going to let you know about that pic in your signature! ;)

You can find Gmax version 1.2 by going to the site of Discreet. The address of the page dedicated to this product is the following one :http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/You can also discover there a tutorial describing its use. A dsl connection is greatly recommended to download all files.Hope this helps. Best regards, Vincent