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Ilyushin » Samdim Design Group Il-86

Smoke effect (only for FS2004)

The effect file for the smoke effect seems to be missing. If you want to see engine smoke, download this smoke effect , unzip and place the file "SMOKE_JT8D.fx" in the main effects folder of FS2004 (assuming that your FS2004 is installed on your C: drive):

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\Effects\

Then, go to the Il-86 aircraft folder and open the aircraft.cfg file with notepad or another text editor:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\Aircraft\Ilyushin Il-86\

Look for the text that says:

[SMOKESYSTEM]
smoke.0=-5.00, -2.00, -57.167, fx_smoke_rx
smoke.1=-5.00, -2.00, -33.833, fx_smoke_rx
smoke.2=-5.00, -2.00, 33.833, fx_smoke_rx
smoke.3=-5.00, -2.00, 57.167, fx_smoke_rx

Change it to:

[SMOKESYSTEM]
smoke.0=-5.00, -2.00, -57.167, SMOKE_JT8D.fx
smoke.1=-5.00, -2.00, -33.833, SMOKE_JT8D.fx
smoke.2=-5.00, -2.00, 33.833, SMOKE_JT8D.fx
smoke.3=-5.00, -2.00, 57.167, SMOKE_JT8D.fx

Save and close the file. Now the smoke effect can be activated by pressing the "I" key on your keyboard. Press the key again to disable.

Installation of the Ilyushin Il-86 in FSX

This aircraft is fully compatible with FSX, although the 2d panel that comes with the update is not. Follow these directions if you want to fly this aircraft in FSX:

1. Run the installer (Ilyushin_Il86_setup.exe) and when the installer asks you to choose an installation folder, make sure it's a different location than where your FSX or FS2004 is installed. For example: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 10 . Then press next and the installer will ask you if it's alright to create a new directory (folder). Click on "Yes" and wait until the aircraft has been installed. Do the same for the update, install it to that location as well (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 10).

2. Now go to the folder called "aircraft" which is now in the new folder (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 10\Aircraft\ ). In that folder, you'll see another folder called "Ilyushin Il-86". Copy that folder to the aircraft folder of FSX (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\ ).

3. Now you can delete the folder that you've created for the installation (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 10\). Make sure you don't delete the real FS2004 or FSX folder!

4. Go to the panel folder of the Ilyushin Il-86 (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\SimObjects\Airplanes\Ilyushin Il-86\panel\) and delete all files except "default_panel.cfg". After that, rename "default_panel.cfg" to "panel.cfg". Now it will use the default B747-400 panel of FSX. Note that some parts of the panel are not working in combination of this aircraft.

5. 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\Ilyushin Il-86\ and save the thumbnail.jpg image.

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.