is it possible to tone down or eliminate the smoke generated when touching down on the carrier?  the smoke effect is quite taxing on the gfx and just doesn't look good.  

 

a puff of smoke is ok but it's just too much like a cloud that envelopes the plane...

 

 

In the Aircraft config under the [effects] sections, add the following line: touchdown=fx_tchdwn_none.

The hole [effects] section should look like this:

 

[effects]
vaportrail_l= fx_dummy
vaportrail_r= fx_dummy

touchdown=fx_tchdwn_none

 

 

What this line does is basically saying the flightsim to use the "fx_tchdwn_none" effect for touchdown smoke. However, since this effect does no exist, no smoke appears.

Alternatively, if you find a smoke effect that you like, change "fx_tchdwn_none" to the name of you touchdownsmoke effect and it will appear insted of the default tchdwn smoke

Thanks for that, calling a dummy fx file works.  i thought the smoke was built into the model so great to be able to modify it.