Why does my aircraft does not show up

[landersohn]

I hope somebody can help me: I installed the same seahawk ZIP file on three different systems and under FGO and FGRun I never see all the 4 variants (seahawk, 2 tanks, RNF, wingman): on some systems I see three on others only 2.
Most bothersome is one system were that basic seahawk does not show up in FGo or FGRun. Any ideas what might be going on anybody?

[Johan G]

That's really odd.

I assume you installed FlightGear 2.12.0, but was the aircraft downloaded from the official aircraft download page or somewhere else, and what operating systems did you install it on?

Also, is there differences in the hardware setup, in essence what graphics cards do each of the systems have and how did installing the aircraft go on them in relation th the graphics cards?

[landersohn]

Actually, I figured it out: there is something in the code for FGo which is supposed to suppress "carrier" to show up as aircraft because the seahawk has a "carrier-set.xml" file for carrier keyboard bindings. This code apparently causes some of the seahawk variants not be listed as aircraft:when I commented it out, all seahawks showed up.
I am not very familiar with python, so I don't know exactly why this is.

[landersohn]

Did figure it out: in config.py, line 463, replace "return" with "continue" and all is well. It all depends how the directory is read: if carrier-set shows up in the list of files before any seahawk variant, the routine exits at that point in the original code.

[Johan G]

Great!

Could you please report that bug, fix and a link to this topic in the Simple FG GUI front-end for Linux topic, to make the author aware of it.*

* That or his email as per his web site.