Question for Tom

[Bill Hendrix (bgas046)]

Tom, I noticed in the FTimer download that you show a JPG of a CV240 panel. Where can I get that panel? Looks like it would work in the DC-3. Thanks, Bill H.

[Tom Goodrick]

Sorry. I must have deleted that panel folder just after that GAAR. I don't like to use those archaic forms of navigation. My present panel on the CV240 and DC-3 has a big GPS smack in the middle of the panel. I can't find any traces of that panel with the VOR and ADF gauges.

Needless to say I don't intend to enter any more GAAR's until they get into the 21st Century.

[dirtydog1006]

Apparently I am too dumb to start a new thread, but the title of this one suits.

I am so dumb I let MS scare me into disabling features that it claimed would result in (more) instability when I loaded up TG's B200. So, the props and gear are invisible. They work, but they are transparent. This is a trial for my type-A personality.

Then I learned to read, and saw several bits on the Net by TG, saying to beware of the Bad Box. DO not be bullied by it. Too Late!!!!!

FS9 with XP home. IS there some CFG file I can edit to bring back the gear and props, or do I have to do a complete re-install?

Or is it just all over for me and the B200? I really like the ship.

I have searched all over for an answer to this, with no soap.

Help me Ronda!

[Tom Goodrick]

Yes, but ... first you have to find the fs9.cfg file. Its location depends on which operating system you have. I don't have XP Home. But I think Bill Von Sennett has had XP at one time. An email to him might help you locate it. When you get the location, read it (as a text file) and look for the line that says something like the B200 = something. Erase the line that references the B200. Then run FS9 and try loading the B200. It should let you do it. JUST SAY NO to any question the dumb folks at Microsoft ask you. (They are the dumb ones.)

I am sorry about the state of the panels for most of the aircraft on my web site. I should re-do all those panels because, a few years ago, I deleted a file of about 1 MB from each of the panel folders that I thought was not needed. When I recently put many of those aircraft on a recent installation of FS2002 on a lap top, I flound the panels would not show up. This is discussed in my Blog during the past few months. Unfortunately, if I add that file back into all the panels, I will exceed the allowed sizze of my web site.

To see what file is missing, just look into the panel forlders of one or two of the panels for default aircraft. Copy one of those "irrevalent" files into the B200 panel folder and the panel will appear.

[rick]

I have XP Home and this is where mine is: C/Document and Settings/Application Data/micro$oft/FS9

[Ed Burke]

Thanks Rick, I have been trying to find that file without success but I now have it. I have a number of folders in Docs and Settings but the 'Application Data' was the vital clue and now having the little beast in my sights I have installed a shortcut. The weird thing is that now a search for fs9.CFG will find the shortcut but, as before, not the file itself !!!

Ed

[dirtydog1006]

Thanks Rick for showing me where the CFG file is, and Tom for telling me what to do.

In case others want to know: The line to delete is: ka200_N2461K=0
It's toward the bottom of the file.

I'm thinking that the string, 'ka200_N2461K' is in a line of the AIRCRAFT.CFG file that identifies the ship to FS. Therefore, an easy way around this problem might be to change that line in the AIRCRAFT.CFG file. I cannot get to my system right now to check this, but I bet it would work.
After the change, FS would not know to apply the disable code to the model. Maybe?


Anyways, the CFG file (XP Home) was easy to locate with Rick's info, using WE Search. But a bit tricky to get to that node in order to make a copy of the file befire surgery. Somehow I did it.

So thanks to both of you for the info. Now the 200 has gear I can see. Much less Star-Trek-ie.