Acceleration - Add on planes not recognized

[lrandel]

The Acceleration add on installed OK but my default 737-800 that has a Southwest Paint Scheme texture add on is not recognized now. How can I correct this problem. I suspect that the other add on planes may not work either although I have not tried the others.

[dan roman]

You are talking about the "skins", right? I have a lot of skins for my FSX planes. When I upgraded to accel, they all disappeared. I had the same thing happen when I installed another piece of software, memory fails on what it was.

The only solution is to repaste all the "skins" into your air file. I did all the skins and then made a copy of each air file and put each in a separate folder by the plane type. As you add more skins to your plane, just be sure to update the copy in the "storage" folder. I also put the "storage" file folder outside of the FSX folder so I do not lose my settings again. If I lose the skins again, I can just copy the air file out of the storage and paste it into the plane folder in FSX.

Time consuming, but worth the investment.

[phillroath]

Lots of default aircraft had their aircraft.cfg file updated and they were replaced with a whole new file. It also happened on the DC-3 but in my case, I am in the habit of backing up any aircraft I modify so I was able to get the extra textures back by opening the backed up aircraft.cfg file and the acceleration version and combined the two.

Phill