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FSX Installation instructions for CalClassic aircraft and Ken Mitchell/Cal Classic Panels

Version 6, 12/2017

FSX sound and supercharger gauges by Doug Dawson

These instructions will install the FS2004 aircraft and Ken Mitchell/Cal Classic panels for use in FSX.  Please use only the latest Base Pack files from www.calclassic.com.

To install into FS2004 see the Installing into FS2004.txt file.

This EXE installer will NOT create a Start Menu entry, registry entry, uninstall program or anything else, other than copying the relevant files to the proper folders.  You may install to a temporary folder by pressing the ... button and copying things by hand if you wish.

You will install a "Base Pack" file containing everything you need, along with a single livery.  If you want more liveries of this specific aircraft, you will install the textures (only) into the Base Pack folder, and add a new livery section into the plane's aircraft.cfg file.

Quit FS if it is running before installation.

1.  Using My Computer or Windows Explorer, examine your FSX/SimObjects/Airplanes folder for a folder called M404 CB-16.  If you find it, rename the aircraft.cfg file inside it to aircraft_old.cfg.  If you have added any extra liveries, you will use this backup file to add the extra  livery sections to the new aircraft.cfg file.  YOU WILL LOSE YOUR ADDED LIVERY SECTIONS (if any) IF YOU DO NOT BACK UP THIS FILE.

2.  Double click the Setup.exe file and install into FSX following the instructions for FS2004.  YOU WILL HAVE TO PRESS THE ... BUTTON AND BROWSE TO YOUR MAIN FSX FOLDER.

3.  Double click the Setup FSX.exe file and install following the instructions.  Run this *after* the Setup.exe file.  It should find your FSX installation automatically.  If not, click the ... button and browse to your MAIN FSX folder.

4.  In Windows Explorer/My Computer, find your FSX installation.  Look inside the main FSX folder and you will find an AIRCRAFT folder.  Inside that you should find folders for the plane and possibly for the panel and sounds.  Move these folders to the FSX/SimObjects/Airplanes folder.  (Select all the folders, right click on one of the folders, choose Cut, browse to your FSX/SimObjects/Airplanes folder, right click in a white area and choose Paste.)

5. The first time you load the plane into FSX, it will ask you one or more times if you want to load a gauge.  Click the Run button.  Then it will ask you if you want to trust it.  Click the Yes button.

6.  To have a proper view out the 2D and VC cockpits, you MUST follow the FSX Tutorial located at:  http://www.calclassic.com/propliner_tutorial_fsx.htm.  If you are using a widescreen monitor you must change the ZOOM values in the panel.cfg file to 1.0 after this.  If you are using a widescreen monitor with other than 16:9 proportions refer to the file in the Widescreen Monitors folder.  If you are using a 4:3 "square" monitor refer to the file in the Square Monitors folder in the panel's folder.

7.  This plane includes a special VC Camera Definition called CalClassic VC View.  If chosen, it will eliminate the FSX bug that causes the view of the VC to be incorrect if you press Ctrl-Spacebar to reset the view.  Use this view instead of the default VC view to avoid this.

8.  If you use FSX SP2 or Acceleration and you have opaque windows in the VC (especially when raining), you need to download and install the Flight1 Virtual Cockpit Rain Fix for FSX here:  http://www.flight1software.com/fsxtools/f1_fsx_vcrainfix.exe.  Or go to www.flight1.com and go to their Free Downloads page.

9.  To add more liveries to this Base Pack or to replace the liveries from your old aircraft.cfg file (other than the Base Pack livery), follow the instructions found in the Adding Liveries.txt file in the plane's folder.
 
10. Follow the instructions in the Start Here.htm file in the XXX PANEL OPERATIONS folder to operate this panel.  XXX = the panel/plane type, inside the panel's main folder.

NOTE:  Certain gauges require FSUIPC to be installed into your flight sim program.  Get it here:  http://www.schiratti.com/dowson.html  You must install the correct version for your flight sim version!

After installation of all the files, start FS2004/FSX and the plane(s) will appear in the Select Aircraft menu.  If you see duplicated variation entries, you did not remove all old aircraft.

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Now the legal stuff:

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