P51 Racer – Aircraft

P51 Racer – Aircraft

Alright so we’ve got another cool plane for y’all today. The P-51 Racer! In all its chrome and metallic glory. This plane was used a lot during WW2, and for those unfamiliar with it, you can sort of think of it like the fighter jet of its time. It’s highly regarded as one of the greatest fighter planes of WW2. It’s more of a lone wolf kind of plane, single piston engine, single seat, you get the idea. Of course tactically they were deployed in numbers, so if you and your friends want to get together and do a re-enactment, this plane would be a fun challenge for a dogfight in – by the way, did you know our forums launched? Invite link is on the homepage, there’s a section in there where you can make friends and organise a dog fight if that’s what you’re into.

Much like our F/A-18 however, this plane also has its problems. The SDK for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is severely under-documented right now, so everyone’s working with what they’ve got in terms of knowledge about how to create planes and addons for the game. For this bad boy, one of the main issues is that for some reason you cannot click any of the buttons in the cockpit. Otherwise, everything works that we’ve tested (there may well be other issues that we haven’t run into in my testing). Also it’s worth noting the plane almost definitely runs better in legacy mode, but the modern setting is totally fine.

How to Install this Plane

• Simply download the zip/rar by clicking the black button below and extract it to the community folder.
  • Make sure you install in the following format: /community/addon_folder/addon_files, and not /community/addon_folder/addon_folder/addon_files
• Be sure to drag all four folders into your community folder.
• Alternatively you can use ModManFX

Finding the community folder:

• If you have installed the MSFS contents in a custom folder, go in to that folder, and simply drag and drop the unarchived addon folder into your Microsoft Flight Simulator “Community” folder
• If you have bought it from the Microsoft Store Go to %localappdata% (search using windows search), then go to Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_RANDOMLETTERS\LocalCache\Packages\ and place “aw-airport-ensd-anda” into the Community folder
• If you have the game through Gamepass Go to %localappdata% (search using windows search), then go to Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_RANDOMLETTERS\LocalCache\Packages\ and place “aw-airport-ensd-anda” into the Community folder
• If you bought the game on Steam… Go to %appdata% (search using windows search), then Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\ and place “aw-airport-ensd-anda” into the Community folder
  • Alternate Steam Method (If Above Does Not Work)… Go to %localappdata% (search using windows search), then got to Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_RANDOMLETTERS\LocalCache\Packages\ and place “aw-airport-ensd-anda” into the Community folder
  • Alternate Steam Method (If Above Does Not Work)… Go to YOUR_STEAM_LOCATION\steamapps\common\ and place “aw-airport-ensd-anda” into the Community folder