Goldwing, glad the cable is working for you.

When adding new models, you often need to create a preview file. FMS preview files are jpg images (resolution around 200 by 200) and have a file name that ends in “_prv”. The exact resolution is not that critical.

For the fun11 plane, you can use the image from the rc-sim.de site (since it is a jpg image). Go back to the download page and right click on the picture. Select “save picture as” and save it as fun11_prv. Save the file in the “models” sub directory (typically c:\Program Files\fms\models). That’s all there is to it.

You can also create your own preview files using FMS. Open up the Windows Paint program. Start FMS and select the plane in question. Fly the plane in chase camera mode. Dive and pull up on the elevator to get a nice view of the plane. Hit the print screen key to capture the screen. You may have to hit print screen a few times to get a good shot. You now have a screen shot of the plane saved in scratch pad memory. Next, we clean it up a bit … so …

Hop over to the paint program and paste the screen shot (Ctrl-V). Use the select tool (upper right icon) to draw a box around a nice image of the plane. If the image of the plane is small enough then just make the box 200 x 200 and hit Ctrl-C (copy). For larger images, make the box larger (but generally square) and then resize to 200 by 200 (after you first select the area in question grab the the lower right corner of the box and drag to 200 x 200) and hit Ctrl-C (copy). Now you have a resized image at about 200 x 200 in scratch pad memory.

Hit Ctrl-N to get a clean screen. Do not save any files at this point. Once you have a clean screen, hit Ctrl-V (paste) and you have your nice clean resized image. This is what the image will look like as an FMS preview image. Save the image as a jpg file in the models sub-direcory. The file name must match the name of the plane with the “_prv” ending added on. Do not save as a bmp, this will not work. Anyway, I have made literally hundreds of these preview files using this method. It only takes about a minute or so to create a preview file once you get the hang of it.

Good luck,
Moses