Trying to duplicate an aircraft so I can perform heavy mods on the flight model for specific variants. Have changed naming in the cfg and updated the aircraft folder name and layout.json, but to no effect. Is there a process to do this?
Have you tried to copy the complete airplane map to the community folder and make the changes from there
Here’s the primary steps I’ve done so far:
- Duplicated the aircraft (with a unique folder name) and placed in the community folder
- For the duplicated aircraft, I then:
a. Changed the aircraft folder name in the AIRPLANES folder to a unique aircraft name
b. Updated layout.json to match unique aircraft name
c. Changed the title in the manifest.json to a unique name
What I noticed happening is that the duplicate will now appear in the hangar, but not the original aircraft.
Note that is a ported aircraft from FSX and contains an .air file (that I can’t get rid of).
Ok, I got it to work! Last thing I did was to rename the title of each fltsim variant in the duplicated aircraft.cfg to something different. Now, both aircraft show up in the hangar. 
Now that is what i caalled a work around 