I’m trying to edit the performance of an existing stock plane in the standard MSFS2024 (understand higher tier planes are encrypted). In MSFS2020 I would edit engines.cfg, but here I think I need to play with developer mode and create a new project https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/jAvVbmm0IS0…

This is actually not too difficult but it does require a little knowledge about how the developer SDK works. I would recommend reading the SDK documentation, especially the section about modular simobjects. Modular SimObjects The strategy we’ll use it to create a new variant of this aircraft to app…

[image] cbizon: In MSFS2020 I would edit engines.cfg I think also in 2020 you wouldn’t be able to see the engines.cfg file.

He can. At least C208 has her engine.cfg open.

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Wow…what a ridiculous process. At least in FSX one could just open the airplane file and the relevant cfgs could be edited using notepad. I could edit the flight dynamics in about 10 minutes with minimal hassle. Maybe someone could make a utility that could just get the needed cfgs from the downl…

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How do you edit a stock airplane from MSFS2024?

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kaha300d June 22, 2025, 4:55pm 4

Yes, but you were talking about stock planes?