How to disable unwanted airplanes in FS24

tiger1962

tiger1962

SOH-CM-2025
I read a comment yesterday on the microsoftflightsimulator.com forum which mentioned disabling an unwanted aircraft by editing the Content.xml file with Notepad or Notepad++.
I tried it myself and it actually works, here's how to disable the generic AI traffic models for example:

Navigate to your Microsoft.Limitless_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache folder where you should find your Content.xml file - make a back up copy of it before changing anything! You might want to fly a mission or training flight sometime and you'll need to remove your edited Content.xml and replace it with your back up copy before launching the sim.

Open the Content.xml with Notepad or Notepad++ (free from here) and scroll down to this section:

<Package name="fs24-asobo-passiveaircraft-generic-airliner-2eng" active="Activated"/>
<Package name="fs24-asobo-passiveaircraft-generic-airliner-4eng" active="Activated"/>
<Package name="fs24-asobo-passiveaircraft-generic-glider" active="Activated"/>
<Package name="fs24-asobo-passiveaircraft-generic-hab" active="Activated"/>
<Package name="fs24-asobo-passiveaircraft-generic-jet-2eng" active="Activated"/>
<Package name="fs24-asobo-passiveaircraft-generic-piston-1eng" active="Activated"/>
<Package name="fs24-asobo-passiveaircraft-generic-piston-2eng" active="Activated"/>
<Package name="fs24-asobo-passiveaircraft-generic-turbo-1eng" active="Activated"/>
<Package name="fs24-asobo-passiveaircraft-generic-turbo-2eng" active="Activated"/>

Change the word "Activated" at the end of each line to "UserDisabled":

<Package name="fs24-asobo-passiveaircraft-generic-airliner-2eng" active="UserDisabled"/>
<Package name="fs24-asobo-passiveaircraft-generic-airliner-4eng" active="UserDisabled"/>
<Package name="fs24-asobo-passiveaircraft-generic-glider" active="UserDisabled"/>
<Package name="fs24-asobo-passiveaircraft-generic-hab" active="UserDisabled"/>
<Package name="fs24-asobo-passiveaircraft-generic-jet-2eng" active="UserDisabled"/>
<Package name="fs24-asobo-passiveaircraft-generic-piston-1eng" active="UserDisabled"/>
<Package name="fs24-asobo-passiveaircraft-generic-piston-2eng" active="UserDisabled"/>
<Package name="fs24-asobo-passiveaircraft-generic-turbo-1eng" active="UserDisabled"/>
<Package name="fs24-asobo-passiveaircraft-generic-turbo-2eng" active="UserDisabled"/>

Save and close the Content.xml file, then launch the sim and the generic planes will be gone!

To remove any other unwanted aircraft and their various livery options, search for "fs24-asobo-aircraft" and "fs24-microsoft-aircraft" - you'll see a few "fs20-asobo-aircraft" which will be set to "SystemDisabled" already, I wouldn't recommend changing those!
 
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Good idea. Thanks for publishing it. Will I have to redo this every time MS pushes an update?
 
Probably. Each Sim Update will most likely change something in the Content.xml. You could back up your edited Content.xml before you update just in case and then it's a fairly easy copy and paste job for each section that you've edited before.
 
That's most likely a Windows administrator permissions issue. Sorry I'm not at my PC right now, but if you Google windows administrator permissions, you'll get a step by step guide on how to get admin access to your entire MSFS directory.
 
A workaround for the administrator issues not allowing you to edit certain files is to search for the notepad app and selecting "run as administrator", then you open the file and start editing.

Let us know if this helps!

Cheers,

Priller
 
Where is the actual aircraft folder in 2024? I would like to learn the packaging format but cannot find any physical aircraft folders with model, textures, .cfg etc. ,etc.. Can anyone point me in the direction? I have the MS store version.
 
Fnerg said:
Where is the actual aircraft folder in 2024? I would like to learn the packaging format but cannot find any physical aircraft folders with model, textures, .cfg etc. ,etc.. Can anyone point me in the direction? I have the MS store version.
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There actually isn't an "aircraft" folder. I run the steam version myself, so can't help you with the location of the packages folder for the M$ Store version. It should be somewhere in your appdata\roaming\ folder

Cheers,

Priller
 
All the FS24 default aircraft are streamed, the only local files for each plane are a state.cfg and a cameras.cfg.
They can be found in your AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Limitless_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\SimObjects folder (MS Store version).
 
Removal of default aircraft is not the problem. I want to remove the silly replacement aircraft you see on multiplayer when you don't own all aircraft.
 
I don't use multiplayer so I don't which replacement aircraft are used. All I can suggest is that you search through all the aircraft entries in the Content.xml file and change the status of the most likely candidates from "Activated" to "UserDisabled" and see what happens. If it works, you'll probably have a bunch of gamertags floating along on their own lol.
 
Unfortunately the generic models are not in the content.xml file. In 2020 it is organized differently. I don't know what to do about the stupid B747s and such landing at Duxford and sitting on their tail.
 
ftl818 said:
Unfortunately the generic models are not in the content.xml file. In 2020 it is organized differently. I don't know what to do about the stupid B747s and such landing at Duxford and sitting on their tail.
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You might want to use the search function in of the app in that file. If you don't know how to, let us know and we'll help.

Priller
 
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