August 20, 20169 yr I downloaded the RealAir SF260 as suggested in this post: http://www.avsim.com/topic/493589-sim-and-aircraft-advice-for-a-newbie/ I clicked through the installation process, and everything said it installed successfully, but when I go to the aircraft selection screen in FSX-SE the SF260 is not present in the list. There are no FAQs on the RealAir page, so I don't have a clue what to do next. Does anyone have any suggestions?
August 20, 20169 yr Administrators Do you have your Aircraft Selection Page set up to show "All Variations", All Mfgrs", All Publishers", and "All Aircraft Type"? Charlie Aron AVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-Registrar Awaiting the new Microsoft Flight Sim and the purchase of a new system. Running a Chromebook for now!
August 20, 20169 yr Author Do you have your Aircraft Selection Page set up to show "All Variations", All Mfgrs", All Publishers", and "All Aircraft Type"? Yes, just as the installation instructions stated.
August 20, 20169 yr Administrators Have you checked that SF260 folder is in your Simobjects/Airplanes folder? If it's there and you open it does it have a Model, Panel, Sound, and Texture folder along with the .air file and aircraft.cfg? If you open the panel folder does it contain a bunch of files or just a .cfg file that aliases another panel? Charlie Aron AVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-Registrar Awaiting the new Microsoft Flight Sim and the purchase of a new system. Running a Chromebook for now!
August 20, 20169 yr Author Have you checked that SF260 folder is in your Simobjects/Airplanes folder? If it's there and you open it does it have a Model, Panel, Sound, and Texture folder along with the .air file and aircraft.cfg? If you open the panel folder does it contain a bunch of files or just a .cfg file that aliases another panel? When you say folder SimObjects\Airplanes, which one do you mean. I have: AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\simobjects\airplanes which does not contain a folder sf260 Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\SimObjects\Airplanes which does not contain a folder sf260 Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FS\RealAir\sf26007 <---not in SimObjects Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FS\SimObjects\Airplanes\RealAir SF-260 Left Seat Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FS\SimObjects\Airplanes\RealAir SF-260 So there are three different folders called "SimObjects\Airplanes" I'm confused.
August 20, 20169 yr Administrators Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FS\SimObjects\Airplanes\RealAir SF-260 Check out this folder! Dang steam stuff can be complicated! Charlie Aron AVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-Registrar Awaiting the new Microsoft Flight Sim and the purchase of a new system. Running a Chromebook for now!
August 20, 20169 yr Author Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FS\SimObjects\Airplanes\RealAir SF-260 Check out this folder! Dang steam stuff can be complicated! Yes, that folder has many folders for Model, Panel, Sound, Texture (several variations), everything I would expect to see in such a folder. I even copied that folder into ...AppData\Roaming\Microsoft|FSX\simbojects\airplanes\ But that didn't solve the problem either. Finally, I copied the folders from ...steamapps\common\FS\SimObjects\Airplanes to ...steamapps\common\FSX\SimObjects\Airplanes and that solved the problem I wrote to the RealAir support email with a full description of the problem and what I did to fix it. I guess we'll see what they have to say. Apparently their installer doesn't know how to play well with Steam Edition.
August 21, 20169 yr Administrators OK, sounds like you got it going! I suspected that the installer was not meant for Steam applications. Charlie Aron AVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-Registrar Awaiting the new Microsoft Flight Sim and the purchase of a new system. Running a Chromebook for now!
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