The FS2004 Adventures mini-HowTo
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About
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This mini howto was discovered by "william delorean" and corrected and written by "renato golin" . Of course
it's Open Source, no guarantees are given and you can find us at
fs2002professional@yahoogroups.com news group at Yahoo!
Introduction
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Want to know how to make a Flight Adventures pack the
easy way for Flight Simulator where you can find your
own custom special flight folder in 'Select Flight'
section?
How-To
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Step 1: Creating the plans
Create the number of flights you like, lets say
Bristish Airways European Flights for instance. Call
them with an easy to remember name, so you can pick
them up from your already full folder for Flight Sim.
Change planes, weather, time and season, fuel, payload,
create the flight plan and save it. Be sure to give them
good names and good overall descriptions (nothing specific,
It'll be given later)
Step 2: Creating the placeholder
Make a folder in FS9/Flights that is the name you
prefer, on our example "Bristish Airways European Flights".
Go into another one of the folders and note
that they will have a 'desc.txt' file in them. Copy
it and paste it into your new folder. Then open it
with Notepad and modify the name of the folder to your
new one, save, and exit Notepad.
Step 3: Packing your adventures
Next, you drag and drop your saved British Airways
European Flights from your shared Flight Sim dir
into your new folder. There will be two per save, a .FLT
(the flight plan) and a binary file .WX
Bristish Airways European Flights directly into .FLT
file if you feel confortable.
Step 4: Test it
Now when you open 'Select Flight', you will find a
folder Called British Airways (or whatever you chose
for a name) and in it will be all your flights that
concerns that folder/chapter.
Step 5: A better description
Lastly, you can create a text or HTML document that
is the 'preflight' introduction to your flight. You
can make some really awesome documents that will tell
the sim pilot about the weather he is about to encounter,
the various NDB, VOR, and ADF freq's that will be needed
as well as your landing plates, etc.
Save this text/html file with the exact same name as
'that particular flight'. Be sure to use the .HTM extension
or FS will not recognize it. Then when you select it in
FS, it will revert to the document before taking you
to the flight, just like in the professional versions
that came with Flight Simulator.
