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can"t get the planes to show up in the game

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toni251

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After I download a plane and try to install I get a error message as follows: The application could not be installed because the air file is damaged. Try obtaining a new air file from the application author. Am I doing something wrong?

I am new to the forum. I have had and played the game for years, I did not know you could add aircraft. I did get a Me262 with a 50mm cannon to work, but that has been the only plane to show up in the game.
 
I can't say I've gotten that error message before...I'll have to investigate.
 
toni251 said:
After I download a plane and try to install I get a error message as follows: The application could not be installed because the air file is damaged. Try obtaining a new air file from the application author. Am I doing something wrong?

I am new to the forum. I have had and played the game for years, I did not know you could add aircraft. I did get a Me262 with a 50mm cannon to work, but that has been the only plane to show up in the game.
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Yo toni251;

Welcome to "The Basement" :welcome:

Could we have a bit more info here please?
- name of the zip
- name of the author
- where you downloaded it from? (if not SOH)

Problems like this are usually easy to solve, but the complete identification of the aircraft & author is essential to finding the trouble.

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Tips

1.How to install new planes into Combat Flght Simulator 2?

This is one of the easiest Sim in witch to add new planes into.

1. Go to My computer.Double ckick on it.

2.Double click on Local Disc.

3.Program Files

4.Microsoft games

5.Combat flight Simulator 2

6.Open the folder and look for the folder call Aircraft.

7.Paste the new Aircraft folder in it.
Thats it!

Cautuon

You always have take a look inside the new Aircraft folder and see if it cotains any folder within that needs to be install like Guages or Weapons.

Go inside them and copy and paste them at the appropiate folders so the new Aircraft can show up in CFS2.

Take a look in this post and see if it will help you enjoy this Sim to its max: http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1117604819/all Read it from page one to the last the page !
 
This is what i have been doing,I go to add ons, CFS2,aircraft, British, went to page 3 of 17 click on to Tempest MK2 zip file by Maxstuka. I save it to a folder on my desktop named "CFS2 Addons". I highlight the zip file and click "extract", it is extracted to the following area C:\Documents and Settings\antone\My documents\CFS2.In that folder are the following sub folders-aircraft, gauges, effects, scenedb, objects dp and a readme. I click on aircraft and see a folder named Tempest MK2. I click on that and there are more sub folders but the one I click on is the one that says Tempest MK2 installer package. That is when I get the error message that the AIR file is damaged.

I only discovered this web page about three days ago,and I have never done this before so I am sure I am doing something wrong. I think the fact that I got the Me262 to load was just dumb luck. Thanks for your help.
 
Go to the Website that offer CFS2 planes for the program. Download it into a temp folder of your liking through the save download method. From there you open the zip and place the folder into a folder call Aircraft inside the CFS2 main Folder like this:

1. Go to My computer.Double ckick on it.

2.Double click on Local Disc.

3.Program Files

4.Microsoft games

5.Combat flight Simulator 2

6.Open the folder and look for the folder call Aircraft.

7.Paste the new Aircraft folder in it.
Thats it!

Caution

You always have take a look inside the new Aircraft folder and see if it cotains any folder within that needs to be install like Guages or Weapons.

Go inside them and copy and paste them at the appropiate folders so the new Aircraft can show up in CFS2.
 
First, welcome to the CFS 2 forum (the basement) of the Outhouse!

If all of the above do not work, and if it is a jet or a converted FS aircraft, look in the Sound folder and open up the sound.cfg file with Wordpad or Notepad and make sure that the sound is aliased to a plane that you have in your CFS 2 installation. Jets and conversions often have a sound alias that require an edit of the cfg file or additional sound files.

While all of this may look daunting if you haven't done this much, it becomes second nature quickly, so don't give up until the plane is flying.
 
Okay...there is not a problem with the aircraft. What you are experiencing has been discussed in every sim forum on this site. There is some Adobe product that uses .air as the extension for its files. And, since the aircraft in our beloved sims have AIR files in them (.air), this Adobe program (can't remember which one it is) automatically associates the .air file with itself and calls it an installer package. If you click on, let's say P-51.air, the Adobe program tries to read the file and since it is not actually an Adobe file, it throws the corrupt file message.

Adobe Reader I think might be the program that is causing all this panick..not sure.

Some of the other Basement residents have given you a thorough break down on how to properly install aircraft into your sim, so I will not do that again.

But, have no fears...the messages you are getting about your .air files being corrupt are nothing to worry about.

OBIO
 
Hi Toni251,

any airplane standard root folder structure in CFS2 is as follows:

<model> - the brackets stand for folder -
it includes two files, one that ends with .mdl and a model.cfg. The model.cfg is a simple text file which indicates to the simulator which model must be loaded for a given aircraft, the *.mdl is the actual model and cannot be open with a text editor.
<panel>
it's the 2-d panel folder. It usually contains a minimum of two files, a bitmap image of a given aircraft instrument panel and a panel.cfg. Panel.cfg is a text file which contains all the info about size, number and position of a given aircraft gauges. Speedometer, artificial horizon, vertical speed indicator, magnetic compass, oil temperature and pressure and so on. Sometimes there are more bitmap files complementing the intrument panel.
<sound>
It contains all the sound files for a given aircraft engine. They are all in *.wav format plus a sound.cfg text file which controls how the sound is operated by the simulator.
<texture>
It contains all the Extended Bitmap files of the aircraft livery or "skin". Extended Bitmap files normally need a particular utility to be viewed or modified.

In addition to the above subfolders, in order to have a working aircraft, you will also see in the aircraft root folder the following files:

aircraft.cfg: a plain text file which contains the name of the aircraft as it will be displayed in the Free Flight menu, aircraft empty and loaded weights, flight envelope information, contact points (how the aircraft sits on the ground and the so called scrape-points, which you do not want to know where they are because it means you just crashed), flaps positions and degrees, cockpit lights and, if the aircraft is a naval model, arresting hook and folding wings info.

(aircraft_name).air: all the necessary information CFS2 needs to make a given aircraft fly. This also needs a particular utility to be opened and, eventually, modified.

(aircraft_name).dp: Damage Profile file. A plain text file which contains all the info about battle damage occurring to your aircraft, effects triggered by battle damage, extra effects like exhaust flames, type and quantity of payloads your aircraft can carry as they will be displayed in Free Flight, wing hardpoints where your payloads will hang, gun displacement and harmonization parameters, ammunition total quantity and general info used by CFS2 to assign to the aircraft an allegiance in combat, ceiling and minimum altitude, top and minimum speed, date of deployment and crew member(s).

Any of the above missing, misplaced or corrupt and your aircraft will not be displayed in Free Flight.

Any aircraft folder must reside in CFS2 root \AIRCRAFT folder to be operative.

Phew! Did I miss something? I hope not. I also hope this will help your adventure in the wonderful world of CFS2. Some of us have been at it since it was released back in 2000 and still having fun and new things to discover to date.

:welcome: to SOH!

Cheers!
KH :ernae:
 
Obio told you the right information.

That is NOT, repeat NOT an installer package.

Just put all of the folders in the same place in Combat Flight Simulator as every other folder of like name and allow overwriting.
 
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