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Cazzie

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No, it is not any problem within my MSFS, it's the fact I have to fly military WW II and jet aircraft with that idiot looking Asobo pilot! Is there anyway to put a military pilot in the planes? If someone from Asobo or Flying Iron is reading this, fix this please. It just does not look right.

Cazzie
 
In the options, is the pilot avatar set as "default"? if not, you should!

Priller
 
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Yep, check your avatar settings. It annoys me too, although there is an option here, but there are also old planes with a guy in a baseball cap (usually Asobo ones, like Ju-52, Ju-13 etc). I don't know why there is still no pilot era in this simulator since they give you the option to change the kind of pilot.
 
Do you mean the Options in the Sim? Which Options? General. Where? I know there are a slew of characters from commercial aviation to military, but how does one change them. Flying Iron had the Asobo pilot in their download!

Cazzie, getting too old to learn proper.
 
Options > General > Misc. - You'll find the pilot settings here. If your avatars for pilot and copilot are set to Default, then the sim will load up whatever pilot model the aircraft.cfg calls for. But if you have chosen a specific avatar for either seat, that will override the cfg file every time. Of course, this can lead to some awkward looks from ground crew...
 

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You could also edit the aircraft.cfg as long as its not encrypted which is my preferred method seeing as I'm male and most of the default planes have a female pilot set as the default.

Look for the [PILOT] section and the lines in it
pilot = "Pilot_Female_Casual"
copilot = "Pilot_Male_Casual"
and edit them to your liking

A full list of available pilots are

Pilot_Female_African
Pilot_Female_Arab
Pilot_Female_Asian
Pilot_Female_Casual
Pilot_Female_Hispanic
Pilot_Female_Indian
Pilot_Female_Uniform
Pilot_Female_Uniform_African
Pilot_Female_Uniform_Arab
Pilot_Female_Uniform_Asian
Pilot_Female_Uniform_Hispanic
Pilot_Female_Uniform_Indian
Pilot_Male_African
Pilot_Male_Arab
Pilot_Male_Asian
Pilot_Male_Casual
Pilot_Male_Hispanic
Pilot_Male_Indian
Pilot_Male_Uniform
Pilot_Male_Uniform_African
Pilot_Male_Uniform_Arab
Pilot_Male_Uniform_Asian
Pilot_Male_Uniform_Hispanic
Pilot_Male_Uniform_Indian
Pilot_Female_Glider
Pilot_Male_Glider
Pilot_Female_Military
Pilot_Male_Military



they may also be in the [GENERAL] section too so also change those but I think that they are from when the sim was first release and the [PILOT] section is now the important one.
 
Thanks to all! I once had a dog and Bingo was his name: B-I-N-G-O!

MISC! Completely overlooked that.

And Priller you were correct for my Blue Angels Cougar. Rob had his default pilot as the Asobo Military pilot, looks much better now., so after I opened the Sim, I went to MISC and switched to default, again BINGO. Now, if only Asobo would create proper World War II pilots in lieu of us having to put jet jockeys in P-38s! Aeroplane Heaven's P-51D Mustang pilot looks great, wonder how one could port him over?

Again, thanks fellows,
Cazzie
 
Caz, in all of the FlyingIron aircraft, there is a tablet that you can find located in the cockpit that will allow you to, among many other things, select between the modern MSFS pilot that you have selected from the MSFS settings, or allow you to use FlyingIron's WWII-geared pilot model.

In the P-38, the tablet is hidden to the left of the pilot's seat. You don't have to go looking for it, though, as you can access the click spot through the seat.







 
Bomber_12th said:
Caz, in all of the FlyingIron aircraft, there is a tablet that you can find located in the cockpit that will allow you to, among many other things, select between the modern MSFS pilot that you have selected from the MSFS settings, or allow you to use FlyingIron's WWII-geared pilot model.]

Many thanks Bomber, I saw the tablet and didn't think anything of it. Will do.

Cazzie
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There are many forums one can go to for help, but I never go to but one, right here. And I always get the needed info I require, albeit at age 76 I am a touch thick headed at times. You people are the greatest.

Happy Thanksgiving to us Yanks,
Caz
 
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