Three things you need to know

Hangared Aircraft: 3 things you need to know to use ACT Hangar Manager vers 3.9

1) in the face of a flight sim problem that we cannot solve, rename your fs9.cfg or your fs2002.cfg to any thing else (fs9.cfx)
and startup FS. A new CFG will be generated. ( In a future version we will use our database to reset all of your preferences to where they had been before any incident occurred.)

2) hangar all of your aircraft with a single click

First, start the tool so that you can refer to it as you read this page.

Step 1. Use the "Aircraft" menu to "Load Aircraft" by choosing your \aircraft folder.

Step 2. Now click "Hangar All Aircraft" which is near the bottom of the "Hangars" menu.

Step 3. Activate a favorite airplane. There are 3 places to do this: select a plane and use the "Aircraft" menu is one way.

Step 4. Go to "Configs" menu and "Edit FS Config" so as to set that airplane as your startup airplane in your choice of startup flight (that does not have to be the currently designated startup flight, which you will see named in the right center when you click on "Startup Flight".

If the tool found no startup flight, now is the time to pick one.

You may want to edit the CFG to set
    [STARTUP]
    show_opening_screen=0    (That's a zero).

If you choose to edit that item, select the CFG and then Dbl-Click that item (FS will go straight to flying your FLT on startup).

Step 5. Go flying!

3) Fly with this assurance: nothing has been deleted.

Step 1: If you have not moved your airplanes to another folder, neither has ACT.

   TO RESTORE EVERYTHING SO FAR: Just click "Clear Hangars" on the "Hangars" menu.
That is all.
The hangars are virtual: they are in logic only, not something on the disk. They are made possible by ACT merely renaming aircraft.cfg to aircraft.hgr for you.

CFG basics

The element [USERINTERFACE] has an attribute

SITUATION=

which specifies which flight will be your startup flight.

FS also generates two flights: "Previous flight.FLT" and "UI generated.FLT".

You can chose one of those to be the startup flight.

You can chose ANY of your ACTIVE aircraft to be the plane flown in that flight.

Select a CFG, select a Flight, select an Aircraft, click "Use this Aircraft and this Flight".

Then agree to SAVE the Flight and CFG when you are prompted. If this worries you, re-read Para 1 above. The text shown on the Main Tool window is just a scratch pad to use for COPY-n-PASTE into the actual editors.

Even those editors are just scratch pads : they only make changes if you explicitly command it.

And even then the main tool must be used to SAVE any changed Aircraft, Flight or Cfg file.