Howard 500 aircraft.cfg

[airtj]

I'm curious how this aircraft shows up in the flight sim if the first entry is this. I was adding more textures to this plane and noticed this entry and put [fltsim.0], the aircraft will not show up in the sim if it has this entry. I erase this entry and it shows up. Never seen this in any of my aircraft that I add.

title = Howard 500 - N500HP
sim = hw500m4
model = vc
panel = vc
sound =
texture =
panel_alias =
sound_alias =
kb_checklists = HW500_CHECK
kb_reference = Howard_500_ref
atc_id = N500HP
atc_id_color = 0xffffffff
atc_parking_types = RAMP
atc_parking_code = 1
ui_manufacturer = Howard Aero, Inc.
ui_type = Howard 500 - 105
ui_variation = Civilian
description = Howard 500 by Milton Shupe, Scott Thomas, Joáo Paz

 

[Milton Shupe]

This is how mine looks:

[fltsim.0]
// by Milton Shupe using Jerry Beckwith's 1% Spreadsheet as a basis
　
title = Howard 500 - N500HP
sim = hw500m4
model = vc
panel = vc
sound =
texture =
panel_alias =
sound_alias =
kb_checklists = HW500_CHECK
kb_reference = Howard_500_ref
atc_id = N500HP
atc_id_color = 0xffffffff
atc_parking_types = RAMP
atc_parking_code = 1
ui_manufacturer = Howard Aero, Inc.
ui_type = Howard 500 - 105
ui_variation = Civilian
description = Howard 500 by Milton Shupe, Scott Thomas, Joáo Paz

 

[Tom Clayton]

It will be easier to troubleshoot the issue if you paste all the entries the way they look in your cfg when it doesn't work. That way we can try to see if there's a conflict in one of the entries.

 

[racartron]

This almost messed me up originally as it shows up with the spaces:

[fltsim.0]

// by Milton Shupe using Jerry Beckwith's 1% Spreadsheet as a basis

title = Howard 500 - 105
sim = hw500m4
model = vc
panel = vc
sound =
texture =
panel_alias =
sound_alias =
kb_checklists = HW500_CHECK
kb_reference = Howard_500_ref
atc_id = N500HP
atc_id_color = 0xffffffff
atc_parking_types = RAMP
atc_parking_code = 1
ui_manufacturer = Howard Aero, Inc.
ui_type = Howard 500 - 105
ui_variation = Civilian
description = A1SW - Rev 3 Howard 500 - 105
visual_damage = 1
prop_anim_ratio=0.99

The [fltsim.0] entry is at the very top edge of the notepad page and with the spacing and intervening "// by Milton..." as shown, can be overlooked making one think it wasn't there at all. Normally entries begin with no spaces:

[fltsim.0]
title = Howard 500 - 105
...
...
...

I think Milton is just messing with us. We of the senior persuasion tend to do that sometimes. 8)

 

[airtj]

I didn't see the information at the top of the page.

 

[Milton Shupe]

My apologies for the confusion sir. I assure you that it was not intentional.

 

[napamule]

Space Away

Hehe. This (spaces) used to infuritate David 'Opa' Marshall. He could not fanthom WHY they had to be there. I happened to know he hated to see ANY spaces after the '=' sign in any line in aircraft cfg. He confided in me that he had to 'live with it' but did not like it (something not everyone knew about Opa). I also don't like spaces, but they don't 'do' anything and as long as the (fltsim.x) section is there, then followed by 'title=x', then 'sim=x', then the rest is optional (well, almost-FS9 will write the aircraft line under 'Any' list, as 'Unspecified xxx' (with xxx being 'Howard 500-105' (in this case) and variation then being= 'default'). All the below will 'work':

-----------------------------------------
[fltsim.0]

// by Milton Shupe using Jerry Beckwith's 1% Spreadsheet as a basis

title = Howard 500 - 105
sim = hw500m4
--------------------------------------
// by Milton Shupe using Jerry Beckwith's 1% Spreadsheet as a basis

[fltsim.0]

title = Howard 500 - 105
sim = hw500m4
-----------------------------------------

[fltsim.0]

// by Milton Shupe using Jerry Beckwith's 1% Spreadsheet as a basis

title = Howard 500 - 105 //tab spaced

sim = hw500m4 //tab spaced
----------------------------------

The line with '//' will be ignored, or, not 'read' by FS.
Chuck B
Napamule