Dane Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 Can someone help me - I am adding an EFB2 Aircraft Profile for the Carenado PA44 Seminole. I cannot find where MSFS stores the AirFile (*.air) name in order to enter the correct name for this aircraft. Regards, Dane Watson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonewulf47 Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 Hi Dane, For standard aircraft there is an "aircraft.cfg" in the aircraft package. Within this file the icao_type_designator = "XXXX" can be found. Under normal circumstances the ICAO type designator is used. There is however an exception. Not all A/C have a text-type aircraft.cfg. Some of them use an encrypted "Cfg.fsarchive", which is not readable. We have found out that so far all default A/C using this encrypted file type use the correct ICAO identifier, which can also be identified here: https://www.icao.int/publications/doc8643/pages/search.aspx Unfortunately some Add-On developers do not adhere to this rule and use their own name. Carenado's Mooney Ovation as an example uses non-standard "ovation" for this purpose. We do not have the means to find the correct call-up name for Add-Ons with the "Cfg.fsarchive" type configuration file. If they do not use the standard ICAO code, it's a matte of "trial-and-error" to find the correct code. For the Seminole (as I presume this is the Carenado Seminole) my best guess would be that they use the non-ICAO keyword "seminole". But this is just a rough guess. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dane Posted November 29, 2020 Author Share Posted November 29, 2020 4 hours ago, lonewulf47 said: Hi Dane, For standard aircraft there is an "aircraft.cfg" in the aircraft package. Within this file the icao_type_designator = "XXXX" can be found. Under normal circumstances the ICAO type designator is used. There is however an exception. Not all A/C have a text-type aircraft.cfg. Some of them use an encrypted "Cfg.fsarchive", which is not readable. We have found out that so far all default A/C using this encrypted file type use the correct ICAO identifier, which can also be identified here: https://www.icao.int/publications/doc8643/pages/search.aspx Unfortunately some Add-On developers do not adhere to this rule and use their own name. Carenado's Mooney Ovation as an example uses non-standard "ovation" for this purpose. We do not have the means to find the correct call-up name for Add-Ons with the "Cfg.fsarchive" type configuration file. If they do not use the standard ICAO code, it's a matte of "trial-and-error" to find the correct code. For the Seminole (as I presume this is the Carenado Seminole) my best guess would be that they use the non-ICAO keyword "seminole". But this is just a rough guess. HTH Thank you Oscar - you were correct. my Seminole is by Carenado and the name that works in the Profile is seminole. I actually could not find an aircraft.cfg file - but all is good, thanks to you. Dane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airman05 Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 Sorry, did not find how to delete a post. I had a problem with the airfile name of the Aerosoft DHC-6 Twin Otter, that originally has an empty icao identifier. But I edited the aircraft.cfg by hand and that did the trick. Sorry for the post.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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