How To.Install FSX Aircraft By Andrew Herd (12 June 2007) Way back when, I wrote a series of 'how to' guides on. At the time I realised that there was a need, but I had no idea how great it was - nearly 5000 people worked their way through that series. Many of those people emailed me to tell me how much they had appreciated the tutorials, which were my way of repaying the countless freeware authors whose products I was teaching people to install. After the release of FS2002, it became clear that enough changes had been made to Flight Simulator that it was worth writing another series, customised for the new version. I kept some of the text from the old tutorials, and redid most of the screen shots. I have extended the tutorial slightly to include common problems that people have installing aircraft in the new version of the sim. Then FS2004 came along, so.

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And now, we have FSX, which is a whole new ball game compared to the older versions of Flight Simulator. If you are reading this, I can imagine that you have flown everywhere and done everything you can do in the Microsoft default aircraft set. By now you will be intimately familiar with the Cessnas, have flown the Mooney upside down under San Francisco bridge and tried to land the 737 on a 400 foot dirt strip in North Dakota. The program has given up its secrets and you are looking for something else to try your hand at - and you have noticed that FlightSim.Com has a zillion free files ready for download, but you just aren't quite sure how to go about it. This is the place to start learning. First of all, before we even go looking for trouble, we need one essential utility, a shareware program called.

Well, many of the aircraft on this and other sites are in what are known as compressed files. You can imagine a compressed file being like the suitcase you would like to take on holiday, with everything crushed into it, except with a compressed file you can get the kitchen sink in too. Aircraft creators use file compression to squeeze all the files that go together to make their planes into the smallest possible space - not only is it convenient to have everything collected together, it makes for faster downloads too. The universal format used around the net is what is called a 'zip' file, and WinZip is the best way I know of getting the contents of those suitcases out without breaking anything. The first thing you need to do to start this project is to create two directories on your hard disk: one called 'Downloads' and the other called 'Junk'. If you aren't sure how to do this, then I suggest going off and buying a book called () () () () and reading it thoroughly before coming back to try this, as your learning curve is going to be too steep otherwise. You will use these two directories to store the files you have downloaded and to unzip files before you install them in your Flight Simulator (henceforth known as FS) folder.

To get WinZip, fire up your web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera or Netscape) and. This should take you direct to the WinZip site and from there you can follow the link to downloading the evaluation version. Bend Sinister The Fall Rare more. When your browser pops up a dialog to ask you which folder to download the file to, make sure that the 'save this file to disk' button is checked and choose the download folder you just created to save it in.

When you have finished getting WinZip, open up Windows Explorer, and take a look in the download folder. Art Official Intelligence Mosaic Thump Rar File here. There should only be one file in there and it should be the install file for WinZip, so launch it by double-clicking on it and follow the instructions.

Assuming you have a working FS setup you now have all the tools you need to build your own dream plane from the tens of thousands FlightSim.Com has to offer. How To Install Pycairo Win32 on this page. The plane we are going to install into FSX is a Piper Arrow by Hauke Keitel.

The file name is pa28r201.zip, but needless to say, we are going to find it the hard way (skip the next few paragraphs if you understand how to use file library searches). If you follow the links to the, you will see the page is divided into sections, with the file library links half way down the right column. Click on 'search file libraries'. This takes you to a new page, which lets you search for more or less anything you want. We are going to narrow our search down to FSX files, so click on the down arrow to the right of the 'search only file section' dialog - in the default state this reads 'all file sections' - and scroll the drop down so that it shows 'FSX general aviation aircraft'. Now type in 'piper arrow' without the quotes.