NOTE FOR FSX USERS: This aircraft is fully compatible with FSX (only the smoke effects are not and the strobe lights may not work correctly). Please follow the instructions below if you want to use this aircraft in FSX:
1. First, find the original installer. Unzip the archive to a temporary folder. The folder that contains the file 'install.exe' should also contain a sub-folder called 'CL2'. Go in that folder and you'll see these sub-folders: aircraft, Effects, Flights, fonts and gauges.
2. Move or Copy the contents of the 'aircraft' folder to the SimObjects\Airplanes folder of FSX (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\ ).
3. Move or Copy the contents of the 'Effects' folder to the main effects folder of FSX (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Effects\ ).
4. Move or copy the contents of the 'fonts' folder to the main fonts folder of FSX (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Fonts\ ).
5. Move or copy the contents of the "gauges" folder to the main gauges folder of FSX (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Gauges\ ).
NOTE: The instructions above are for the whole package, so you don't have to do this again for the other aircraft in the package. However, the instructions below are valid for the DC-8-53 and DC-8-61 models only.
6. Since the smoke effect appears not aligned with the aircraft, it's better to disable it. Open the file 'Aircraft.cfg' of the DC-8-53 with notepad (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\AS_DC8_53_CL2\Aircraft.cfg).
Find these lines:
[SMOKESYSTEM]
smoke.0=-5.00, -15.00, 46.00, fx_as_dc8l_exo
smoke.1=-5.00, -15.00, 26.00, fx_as_dc8l_exo
smoke.2=-5.00, -15.00, -26.00, fx_as_dc8r_exo
smoke.3=-5.00, -15.00, -46.00, fx_as_dc8r_exo
Place '//' for each line like this:
//[SMOKESYSTEM]
//smoke.0=-5.00, -15.00, 46.00, fx_as_dc8l_exo
//smoke.1=-5.00, -15.00, 26.00, fx_as_dc8l_exo
//smoke.2=-5.00, -15.00, -26.00, fx_as_dc8r_exo
//smoke.3=-5.00, -15.00, -46.00, fx_as_dc8r_exo
Save the file and repeat the steps for the DC-8-61. (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\AS_DC8_61_CL2\Aircraft.cfg).
7. OPTIONAL: Thumbnail image for the aircraft selection list.
Right-click on the image below and choose "Save Picture As..." or "Save Image As...", browse to the folder \Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\AS_DC8_53_CL2\ and save the thumbnail.jpg image.
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save to AS_DC8_53_CL2\texture\ |
Right-click on the image below and choose "Save Picture As..." or "Save Image As...", browse to the folder \Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\AS_DC8_61_CL2\ and save the thumbnail.jpg image.
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save to AS_DC8_61_CL2\texture\ |
Next time when you start FSX, the aircraft should be visible in the aircraft selection list and work fine. If you download additional liveries, you can make thumbnail images yourself: you need to make a screenshot of each livery of the aircraft and resize it to 256x128 pixels (use an image editor like photoshop, paintshop or whatever you prefer). Make sure the image format is JPG and name each of them "thumbnail.jpg". Then copy the image to each texture folder inside the aircraft folder.
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