installing craft is easy... once you have the first steps down, then you don't need to do them again for other craft...
- create yourself a directory to put all your custom craft into... open a command prompt or just create these following two from whatever graphical interface you have... i'm guessing you know how to create folders in your GUI so i won't go into details about that... that's also why i'm doing this via the command line... it is so much easier and faster
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mkdir myflightgear
mkdir myflightgear/Aircraft
- add this path to your fg-aircraft paths. you can do this in the new launcher by clicking on the "Addons" link in the left menu... then click the "+" to the bottom right of the "Additional aircraft locations" box... find the directory you created above... it should be in your user directory... you'll be clicking on the "Aircraft" one...
once you have these two steps done, you don't need to do them again unless you remove the setting or the directories...
- download your craft and extract it into the myflightgear/Aircraft directory so that it is inside its own directory...
eg: you get a craft that is in a "foocraft" directory... when you extract it, you should have myflightgear/Aircraft/foocraft with all the files and directories for the craft...
NOTE: if the directory is something like "foocraft-master" then you need to remove that "-master" part...
that's pretty much it... when you load flightgear the next time, this craft should show up in your list of selectable craft... you might need to turn off some filters to see it if it falls below your filter settings...
so now let's say you get another craft... call it the "blerg" and it is in its own "blerg" directory... just like above, extract it to your myflightgear/Aircraft directory... now you should have a list like so...
myflightgear/Aircraft/blerg
myflightgear/Aircraft/foocraft
and both craft should show up in your aircraft list after restarting flightgear...
does that help??
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."