How to start (somewhat ashamed)

[lluisdc]

Good afternoon,

Yes, I am somewhat ashamed because I have been using flight simulator for many years and usually I have no problems to sort out any inconvenience by myself, but I must confess that I could not succeed on using the A380 this time.

I am using FS2004 and I have installed the base package, the Lufthansa and the Emirates liveries using the installer. I only edited the aircraft.cfg to change the manufacturer from "Project Airbus" to "Airbus" and have all the aircraft listed under the same manufacturer. I have edited the sound.cfg and panel.cfg to point my PSS A340 aircraft. Those changes are very simple and usual to a flightsimmer. Unfortunately, my A380 is not displayed under the Airbus and nowherere. This is because there is something missing but sincerely I cannot say what. Could anyone help this ashamed senior flightsimmer?

Thanks in advance,

Lluís

[markm24]

something is missing in your aircraft.cfg i strongly doubt it. can you post your aircraft.cfg (just the fltsim.0 ..... fltsim1 only)?

[lluisdc]

Good morning,

Here you are:

//THE FOLLOWING SECTION WAS AUTOMATICALLY ADDED


[fltsim.0]
title = Project Airbus A380-861 Emirates WV
sim = air_a380
model = wv_ea
panel =
sound =
texture = uae_a6-eda
atc_id = A6-EDA
atc_airline = Emirates
atc_flight_number = 7
ui_manufacturer = Airbus
ui_type = A380-861
ui_variation = Emirates (wingview)
description =
atc_parking_types = GATE
atc_parking_codes = UAE


[fltsim.1]
title = Project Airbus A380-861 Emirates VC PAgauges
sim = air_a380
model = vc_ea
panel = pa
sound =
texture = uae_a6-eda
atc_id = A6-EDA
atc_airline = Emirates
atc_flight_number = 7
ui_manufacturer = Airbus
ui_type = A380-861
ui_variation = Emirates (VC, PA)
description =
atc_parking_types = GATE
atc_parking_codes = UAE


[fltsim.2]
title = Project Airbus A380-861 Emirates VC VASFMCgauges
sim = air_a380
model = vc_ea
panel = vas
sound =
texture = uae_a6-eda
atc_id = A6-EDA
atc_airline = Emirates
atc_flight_number = 7
ui_manufacturer = Airbus
ui_type = A380-861
ui_variation = Emirates (VC, VAS)
description =
atc_parking_types = GATE
atc_parking_codes = UAE

Thanks a lot,

Lluís

[M@rco]

Take a look into your aircraft folder if your .air file is named "air_a380.air". If it is not there is another possibility: if you use Windows 7 you have to go to Username/AppData/Local/VirtualStore/ and take a look into the folder existing in this folder. If there is a folder named FSX/FS9 your have to delete it. After that your aircraft should be shown in your FS menu.

Please report if this was successful.

[markm24]

try removing the first line : "//THE FOLLOWING SECTION WAS AUTOMATICALLY ADDED"

[lluisdc]

Good evening,

M@rco, certainly I have a file named "air_a380.air". I have followed the instructions to install the package and it is there correctly. I use Windows 7 and in my "Username/AppData/Local/VirtualStore/" there is nothing in.

Markm24, I have removed the line "//THE FOLLOWING SECTION WAS AUTOMATICALLY ADDED" and the aircraft is still invisible.

Thank you both for your effort.

My A380 aircraft is in the path D:\FS9\Aircraft\Project Airbus A380-861. I have a SSD only for FS2004. As said, I have installed thousands of aircraft manually since FS98 but sincerely I have no idea why this does not work now. Really dissapointing.

Thanks for any help to make it run,

Lluís

[markm24]

Well try contacting the admin here for an extensive help. I don't get it why it is not working, especially this aircraft addon is made for FS2004 originally.
try contacting "esg"

[lluisdc]

Hi,

Thx, will try.

Lluís

[lluisdc]

Hi,

"esg" solved the problem. The folder "Project Airbus A380-800" must also be installed in the "aircraft" folder to run. As I said to him in private, I suggested to amend the readme file to clearly state that this folder must be installed for proper function as I only installed the folders of those liveries I pretended to install.

Thanks to all of you for your time and advise.

Lluís

[esg]

We'll amend the readme should we ever update the A380.