Should I stop downloading?

[modelr]

I did wonder if it was just my system, does FSX load up the aircraft on the fly via the aircraft folder or via a separate cfg file. Just wondering if it's on the fly if moving unused aircraft folders into a holding folder leaving just a few aircraft would speed it up, swapping back and forth with aircraft folders when you want to fly them.

Like many here I collect freeware aircraft try/fly when they are released I keep them installed and come back to them later but we can't fly everything at the same time so wondered if such a swap system would speed it up. Plus of course repaints, I like to use the "all aircraft" option rather than the 1 aircraft of each type on the thumbnail menu.

Yes, swapping them out would speed things up, greatly. However, you would have to defrag constantly.

There is a way of removing them from the list that wouldn't require moving them. Rename or move the airfile. No airfile, it is not looked at.

 

[Murray Cod]

I can't help buying more Orbx scenery when it is on sale even though I haven't flown much in the areas I already have, and I was luicky to be able to control myself when the Constellation was recently on sale.

 

[sblzei]

Sorry, I can't reply right now. I am in a hurry to go visiting Flight Sim, and then Simaviation, and then Avsim, and then .... (I must not forget to buy a new storage drive too)

 

[jhefner]

For me, the flying is only part of the attraction... I look at it like having my own little virtual aircraft museum, where all the exhibits are flyable... if it catches my fancy, I download it- maybe even attempt a 'restoration' once in awhile... -Mike Z.

Mike summed my habit up. I have a CFS2, FS2002, FS2004 and FSX installation on two computers (the FS2002 is for testing); and 500+ aircraft between them; had something like 700+ aircraft before I lost the hard drives in both. I also have an Excel spreadsheet, there is a tab that lists the planes in each simulator, plus an overall tab. I also have the year each was built

I tend to put the warbirds in CFS2 where they can actually "blow up things and kill people." Some planes I have to fly; others I keep to pose around various airports; in FS2004; I have Bill Lyon's Old Rhinebeck for the 1800s-1910s aircraft, William Shea's Roosevelt Field (with my ACAD file) for 1920s to early 1930s aircraft. CFS2 covers the WWII years; haven't set up a "Silver Wings" airport yet. My hometown airport has a B-23 Dragon like the one my friend and I used to sneak into and just sit in the cockpit and gaze at the controls before it finally left for a home at a museum; and a Texas International DC-9. (Can't find a TTA Convair or a Royal Airlines Skyvan anywhere...) Southwest Airlines' entire fleet of theme planes fly in and out of my Dallas Love Field. (Anotov and Tupelov used to still fly high around the former Soviet Union in my former FS2002 install; but need to be put back.)

So, FS is a time machine, a museum, a virtual vacation (thinks to the 1+ GB of Tileproxy). It is also a showroom, the other day I saw an airplane at the local airport I have never seen before (a Flight Design CTSW.) So, what did I do when I got home? Yep, found one, downloaded it, and then "sat in the cockpit", had a look around, then took it out for a spin....

-James

 

[Astoroth]

FSINN (online multiplayer software) counts your aircraft for you....counting all repaints, I have 1442 aircraft in FSX, and that's just my active folders.....lol