If you like the Volocity drone, more power to you. I never thought I’d have to deal with it, but today I landed at a small airport and saw three of them on the apron. I figured I’d simply de-install them from the Content Manager, and that worked – until I restarted MSFS and it forced me to re-install them.
OK, so if I can’t de-install them, can I make sure they don’t show up anywhere? The isAirTraffic setting is already at 0 in the aircraft.cfg file (when the file exists) so I assume I can’t stop it from appearing. But if anyone out there knows what I can do, I’d appreciate it.
Not without being able to edit an aircraft.cfg file - which this one doesn’t have due to being locked down by MS/Asobo. You may be able to uninstall it via the Content Manager if you never intend to fly it.
Thanks. I tried that, but the next time I started FS, it required a re-install. Having them isn’t that big of a deal, but having no control over where they appear is not ideal.
You can completely uninstall the Volocity from the content manager without it being asked again the next time the simulator is loaded, on condition that you also remove the 2 liveries that come with it as well as the voloport.
Yes the only planes which are necessary for the simulator, you will not have the option to delete which will appear in the content manager, for all the others you can delete them on condition of also deleting the different liveries which accompany them.
MisterBenson33, thanks for the info but I must be doing something wrong. I have de-installed many aircraft exactly the same way, and it has worked fine. So I go into Content Manager and search for “volo” and find these four entries, and select them for deletion and delete accordingly.
I’m going to try the layout.json trick that Parorng suggested and see what that does. Besides that, if you see something I’m doing wrong, please advise.
Something very strange is happening, as uninstalling it from the content manager should then make it not download anymore. Interesting the layout.json trick didn’t work.
Yeah, I created one. Thanks to you and everyone else for the replies and help, I appreciate it.
Hello MSAsobo: I get that you think this drone thing is cool, and if people agree with that, more power to 'em. But we should be able to change a simple setting somewhere to in effect “turn it off” if we don’t want to see it. IMHO, it’s just unnatural to see it at an airport.
I got it to work, but I wouldn’t suggest anyone try this unless they know what they’re doing and consider the prospect of re-installing MSFS as a fun way to spend their evening.
I found that the microsoft-aircraft-volocity\SimObjects\Airplanes\Microsoft_Volocity directory did not have an aircraft.cfg file, but the two livery subs did (and the isAirTraffic was set to zero on those as it should be). So I copied one of the aircraft.cfg files from one of the liveries and added it into the Microsoft_Volocity directory.
After backing up the existing layout.json file in the microsoft-aircraft-volocity directory, I edited it and added this:
somewhere in the middle. I don’t know what ‘size’ means in this situation, and I assume the date is irrelevant (since the change worked for me). Make sure to get the brackets right. Like I said, this worked for me. Since I made the change, I have not seen a single whirlybird at any airport.
If you try this, then may fortune favor the foolish. Best of luck to you.
Best of luck to you.