AirEd Help
AirEd will edit every data member of an FS98 AIR
file. The AIR file specifies flight dynamics for an aircraft. It has No
Effect on the visual model whatsoever.
New to this version:
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Added a graph capability for records containing int16
types. See Description Of Data Types for more
info.
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Added Edit As Hex to the right click menu. See below.
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Added Sort under the file menu. Sorts according to
record number.
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Added Search and Search Again under the file menu.
Great for finding little used items.
Files:
Menu choices are for the standard file operations,
Open, Save, and Save As. They work as expected. Note that AirEd can be
made the editor of choice by selecting "Set AirEd for AIR files". Then
AirEd will come up automatically when you click on an AIR file in File
Manager or Explorer or whatever it is this week.
The List:
Once a file is open, there will be a list of
records presented. This list is similar to the one for directories in File
Manager. There will be icons that show kind of data the record contains,
and a brief text description. Some records contain only one item of data.
If so, the type of data is shown in the icon. You can get a Description
Of Data Types.
If the record contains more than one item of
data, the icon will be 
This means that when you click on it, it will
expand to show all of the data items in that record.
NOTE: Single clicks are used in
AirEd. Double clicking is not needed!
Editing Items:
To edit an item, simply single click the left
mouse button over it.
The way you edit an item depends on what type
of data it contains.
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Numbers: An edit box appears directly to the right
of the item. When done editing, press Enter (on the keyboard) to save the
data, or Escape to cancel.
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Text: A dialog appears with a text box that you can
use to edit the text. Press OK to save the changes, or Cancel to close
without saving.
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Unknown: If the contents of a record are unknown,
clicking on it will bring up a Hex Edit dialog. I won't go into lessons
on Hex editing here. Only to be used if you know what you are doing!
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Tables: As I better understand the structure of the
tables, I'll make graphs to be able to edit them. See Description
Of Data Types for how to edit them.
Right clicking on an item will bring up a small menu
with some advanced functions to choose from.
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Info: Shows file offset to the data, data
length and help text. Used to be all you got from right clicking.
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Edit As Hex: Brings up the Hex Edit dialog
regardless of the actual data type.
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Separator: Everything below here works on
whole records only.
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Copy To Clipboard: Copies the currently selected
record to the clipboard so it can be placed into another file.
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Add From Clipboard: Adds the record in the
clipboard to the current file.
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Remove Record: Does what it says, says what
it does.
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Replace from clipboard: Overwrites the selected
record with the record from the clipboard. The two records must be the
same number and length.
At the bottom of the window is a bar with
text. If you are editing a number, that text will show you the ranges of
numbers you can enter.
More advanced users can edit the ini file, which
is where just about everything you see is specified. Explanations of the
entries are in the file.
NOTE: Don't edit AirEd.ini unless
you know what you are doing! The program won't function right if the file
gets botched.
I will post the updated AirEd.ini file as it becomes
available. If you have found out the function of an entry, please e-mail
me with the information, including the steps you took to verify it and
I will include it in the next update. All entries MUST be verified in the
sim. It isn't enough to just find out what got changed by some other editor!
For ini and program file updates, check in at
MyAirEd page .
Please DON'T e-mail me asking where some thing
or another is. If you can't find it in AirEd, it hasn't been found yet.
E-Mail William Roth