How Many Type Planes Do You Fly Or Keep?

I have 158 planes in FS2004, mostly prop jobs but also a few jets. I have (had?) way more planes in CFS2, unfortunately they are now stranded on my malfunctioning external hard drive. :banghead:
I'm an impulsive downloader - if I see a new version of one of my favorites or a unique or stylish plane I grab it. And we all have our favorite plane makers whose stuff we always d/l because we know it's gonna be good.
 
I have a storage folder on another drive with over 200 more, but this is a screenie of the first part of my Aircraft folder. All of my non Transload aircraft are prefixed to keep them separated from my defaults. That makes them easier to manage. I have the categories I like to fly covered by most of the better quality aircraft available. There's still a few that I rarely fly, but I just can't bring myself to mothball any more. I end up saying "Well, I might actually fly that one later...":isadizzy:

Note the size of the scroll bar - ALL of the current Transload inventory stays loaded so that I don't have to go swapping around aircraft folder during on online flight. That way, if someone jumps on the server, as long as they haven't monkeyed around with the title lines, I'll see them correctly.

Edit - the pic might help!
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The planes in my hanger range from my 1800s steam powered flimsies to the latest jets, and every flyable (and not so flyable) craft in between. I mostly fly prop planes, with the round engined ones being my favorite. My skills and my framerates have only recently gotten good enough to where I can fly a jet VFR from Dallas to Houston; but my energy management skills have not gotten good enough to where I can land and stop within the airport fence. :gameoff:

-Jams
 
My install has about 100 planes. I only fly planes with a good VC. I try not to add to many so I can get decent airtime in all of them. Most of them are warbirds or early fighter jets. Then some helicopters and only a few GA aircraft.
 
Hi,

I also have to put my hand up and admit to having a huge hangar ! I use the ancient-but-still-workable Jab2000 to keep track of what I have (the majority of which have their own thumbnails for aircraft/livery and panel) and last time I noted the "totals" I had around 3000 aircraft listed, maybe 20-25% of which are AI.

Mad, I know, but with all the splendid repaints for the Shockwave/A2A P-51, Bf109, P-47 etc. and fleets of AlphaSim Harvards and MAAM-Sim Dakotas of all sub-types I take as much enjoyment over flying the various different liveries as flying the planes themselves, and put up with the long FS2004 load times and extended pauses needed when switching planes/liveries.

In fact I firmly lay the blame at the doors of the Outhouse. If it wasn't for all you wonderfully skilled repainters, life would be a lot simpler, and FS2004 would load much faster. Life would also be very much more dull .....

Alastair
 
Matter of interest Tom, I see your aircraft folder lists 60MB of files.
I have none - what do you keep in there?

Hi Charl,

In FS2004 the \Aircraft sub-folder is where all the aircraft are located. If your \FS2004\Aircraft folder is empty, where do you keep yours ?

Cheers,

Alastair
 
Hi,

I also have to put my hand up and admit to having a huge hangar ! I use the ancient-but-still-workable Jab2000 to keep track of what I have (the majority of which have their own thumbnails for aircraft/livery and panel) and last time I noted the "totals" I had around 3000 aircraft listed, maybe 20-25% of which are AI.

Alastair

I would really like to know how you got JAB2000 to work. When I tried it did not work correctly. I can't remember what was wrong as it was a couple years ago. I wish Jackie would redo it I would gladly pay for it.
 
All of them, but seriously, only about 50 in FS9 itself at any one time (helps initial loading), the others are moved to a folder on the external drive until called forth.

Caz
 
Hi Charl,
In FS2004 the \Aircraft sub-folder is where all the aircraft are located. If your \FS2004\Aircraft folder is empty, where do you keep yours ?
Cheers,
Alastair
Alastair, I have plenty of aircraft sub-folders in there - 729 to be exact, which translates to about 8,000 individual liveries, mostly AI.
I was talking about files.
Tell a lie, I do have 2 files: airlines.cfg and kneeboard_keys.htm for a total of 72kb.
I was wondering what other files you'd have lying around in the aircraft root folder to get to 60MB.
 
Gawd must at least a *&%* load. I get in moods for a certain type or types so I have a wide variety. Especially when I see something at an airport, kinda gives it that reality surge and makes me want to DL it and check it out. And since I often modify the CFGs I keep backups of all the improvements. Have an ext HD pretty much just for FS. But I am also paring down the active list so FS starts up faster. Course the recent long awaited vid upgrade to GE 9400 helped!
 
Alastair, I have plenty of aircraft sub-folders in there - 729 to be exact, which translates to about 8,000 individual liveries, mostly AI.
I was talking about files.
Tell a lie, I do have 2 files: airlines.cfg and kneeboard_keys.htm for a total of 72kb.
I was wondering what other files you'd have lying around in the aircraft root folder to get to 60MB.

Good question. A check on my own Aircraft folder shows the following "loose files" (see screenshot)

Alastair
 
I would really like to know how you got JAB2000 to work. When I tried it did not work correctly. I can't remember what was wrong as it was a couple years ago. I wish Jackie would redo it I would gladly pay for it.

Hi Terry,

I think I "fooled it" into thinking that FS2004 was FS2000 using the VisuallFlight "Toolkit" and FS2002-is-Here. Certainly I have FS2000.exe and FS2002.EXE in my parent FS2004 folder. If you need them (they're only 33kb apiece) let me know.

Alastair
 
By count, I have 19.2 Gb of aircraft folders. Total count around 322 which includes about 74 for AI from addons including My Traffic 2004.

I have about twice as many hangared on my F: drive or burned onto CDs. I swap the out continuously, but if I haven't blown them for awhile they get burned off to a CD.

--WH
 
Hi all,
I took a quick look.I have 1588 a/c folders in the FS9 a/c folder.Of these 437 are various a/i a/c folders.Now this does not count multiple skins in each folder.So there is alot.I am abit of a hoarder.with a/c.

Buddha13
 
Matter of interest Tom, I see your aircraft folder lists 60MB of files.
I have none - what do you keep in there?
That size quote is for any files not contained in deeper sub folders. I double-checked and found a couple of stray items at the end of the list. With the three stock files left (dots.gif, kneeboard_keys.htm, airlines.cfg), that number is down to 72.1 KB.
 
Beats me - but at only 40 bytes, I didn't see a reason to delete it. It may be part of the menu interface somewhere, or it could be one of those things left over from the development phase that they forgot to delete.
 
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