Lessons and chapters Downloaded from Wiley.com

[chowle]

I purchased the FSX book and would like to use their set ups to fly the lessons or chapters.
I have the files extracted and saved in the FSX folder but they will not run. Any suggestions would be appericated.
Thanks

[Growler]

Have you placed the files in the right location on your PC? They should display fine in your game menu if copied to the right place. The default location, assuming your Windows is installed on your computer's C drive is within the "Flight Simulator X Files" folder found at:

C:\Users\"user"(i.e your own user name)\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files

Hope that helps. All the best. :)


P.S. For everyone's benefit the full instructions as given in the book are as follows:


1. Go to www.wiley.com, and do a search for Flight Simulator X for Pilots.
2. Click the link for FSX Flights and Movies. You will be prompted whether you want to open or save the
fi le. Save it somewhere you can fi nd it later.
3. When the download is complete—and it might take a long time if you don’t have a broadband Internet
connection—double-click the compressed folder you downloaded. It’s called FSX_Files.zip.
4. Th is should open the folder and show quite a few fi les. You can use the “Extract all fi les” link in the folder
tasks on the left , or you can simply select all the fi les and choose Edit > Copy.
5. Open the My Documents folder on your computer.
6. Open the Flight Simulator X Files inside My Documents.
7. Choose Edit > Paste.

[chowle]

Growle... thanks for the info. I have completed that and all the files are in the FSX folder. with FSX open you would think the files would show up under free flight.load. but they are not there.
I have tried three times with their instructions. If they have a help site I haven't found it.

[Growler]

Originally posted by chowle:

Growle... thanks for the info. I have completed that and all the files are in the FSX folder. with FSX open you would think the files would show up under free flight.load. but they are not there.
I have tried three times with their instructions. If they have a help site I haven't found it.

Hi Chowie. Very sorry I couldn't really help this time. I must confess to being a tad baffled. The above was exactly what I did, and it worked perfectly for me. In-game when I go to Free Flight, and then click on the Load button, all the Wiley book's flights are listed in the window for me to select. Hoping you manage to solve this glitch. All the best.

[SteveFSX/P3D]

Here is what I wrote explaining this to someone (just expressed differently from Growler, but same thing) Maybe different wording will help - follow it exactly.

If you name and save a flight in FSX you should see a saved flight file in the correct destination folder for these files, as described below. That's a way to confirm the location is correct.

Remember it's the 'Flight Simulator X' folder in the 'My Document folder' the files go into - not the one in the 'Documents' folder. The files can't be in a folder when placed into the FSX folder - they must go in as individual files. Remember to include the 5 files below at point 1.

1. Extract the downloaded `Fsx files' zip file at the download location - you will end up with a folder named `FSX files' and five separate flight files. Put the five separate files into the `Fsx files' folder as they are all going to the same place anyway. (they must have been left out by mistake)

2. Now open this `FSX files' folder and choose from the top - Edit (or organize) - then choose 'Select all' - then choose 'Copy'. ...... and then close the folder down.

Now we have copied everything we need, we just need to paste them to the correct location. For me it's a kind of surprising location because I assumed they would be put into the main FSX install folder - they don't - you are pasting them into a folder within `My Documents' .... As follows:

3. Find your `My Documents' folder on your PC (not to be confused with your `Document ` folder. The location of mine was ..... start menu - select PC name at top - and then select `My Documents' ...... or you can find it it with going to `Computer - select c-drive - users - my documents.

4. Within `My Documents' you will see a folder named `Flight Simulator X Files' - open this folder and select from the top - Edit (or organise) - and then choose 'Paste'

This will copy all your files into the correct location

5. Now start flight simulator and got to the `free flight' menu and select `load' .... You should then see `Chapter 02 Post mills' as a selection if all done correctly.