SUGGESTED INSTALLATION TIPS

Most of my scenery will install pretty much as is the standard practice for add-ons within Flight Simulator 98. They can reside anywhere on the hard drive or on another hard drive for that matter.

In my constant battle things well managed on my system I keep them in their own folder. This allows me to interchange scenery bgl files without having to go through the rigamorale within the flight simulator program. It just works best for me.

I created a folder titled "FS98Scenery". Within this folder I divided in a similar fashion to the NOAA chart set-up and then created a folder within each for disctinctive states or provinces. Each of these folders has two folders. One for Scenery and Texture respectfully.

Keeping the files orgarnized is important and is the key to giving you flexibility with your installation. If you choose to place the files within the FS directory they may load a little faster depending on your CPU speed and RAM. Like everything else with Flight Simulator its a trade off though and faster CPU speeds should not have much problem with them external to the program.

One other option is to place the texture files in your main texture folder which takes up less room. For design purposes this isn't too convenient so I prefer to keep them externally. Placing them internally allows different scenery files to share the textures and thus creates faster loading of the textures.