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FSX AI Helicopter Rotors

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I have been successful to create my own AI Flight Plan for John Young's nice AW139 I downloaded at MAIW. It works perfectly without any extra AFCAD. This actually started early today with Holger Sandman's FS2002 AI Helicopter project which I tried actually successfully to update into an FSX Bell 206B JetRanger I downloaded from Simviation which was an update by Eagle Rotorcraft Simulations of Owen Hewitt's model. Beautiful job and textures. The dilemma. I have been able to get the helo to follow the flightplan and follow the taxi paths all the way to the runway. But the rotors do not rotate. The animation IS in the model I verified in MDCx. The AW139 rotors are animated. Can't see anything in the aircraft.cfg's except for different values but nothing missing or added I can see but I really don't know what I am actually looking for. Any help here would be great. Maybe John Young is lurking here and can tell me what I need to do to make the 206B rotors work. Thank you in advance to any of you helping.
 
Talked with my friend, edakridge about this problem He suggested that I change the model file rotors animations to "prop 1" and prop 2 animations instead of rotor animations which I successfully changed (this is only for me so I don't have any guilt about changing the model in MDCx) but that still didn't make any difference, follows the fp perfectly but no animated rotors. Still waiting for the guru here who will tell me 'THIS IS WHAT YOU DO" or 'IT DON'T WORK!!!" either way I will fix it or forget it.
 
After prayer and Divine Inspiration and I am serious, if I was going to use an aircraft.cfg and airfile from FS2002 as the instructions say, I should get the model and textures from the default FS2002 JetRanger which I was able to find at Simviation. Guess what? It works in FSX(A) beautifully. I don't have panel or sound as instructed so there is no gauge conflicts. Just a beautifully flight plan following chopper as you can see from the photo:

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still waiting to hear from any of you who have ideas how to use the FSX helicopters as ai helo's if it IS possible. It MAY be a model conflict thing with Holger's aircraft.cfg and airfile.
 
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