Downloader configuration to export only to the Aircraft type selected in Dispatch options?

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Forgive me if this is a duplicate of any other thread currently going. I searched back a little bit and didn’t see it.
I have numerous planes that I utilize the Simbreif downloader service to load plans to the locations I need them. The Downloader service works awesome for how it is set up currently.

My question is can the downloader be set up to only export the plan to the location specified in the Downloader for the Airplane selected in the Aircraft Type area of the new flight dispatch options? For example, If I set up the plan for an Aerosoft CRJ900, it exports to the CRJ700 and the PMDG 737-800 locations as well. If it can’t be set up to key on Aircraft TYype selected when building the flight plan currently, can the tool be improved to add that capability?

The reason I am asking is the downloader pulls down a file for each download location and format selected in the Simbrief downloader tool. The truth is I only need the plan for the aircraft I have specified in the Aircraft type since it is not relevant for any other aircraft. This would help save Disk space as well. That causes clean-up issues for me long-term as well as the potential to grab the wrong plan when in other airplanes.

Thanks in advance for your help
Dennis

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Thanks for the suggestion Dennis, will consider this for a possible future update.

Best regards,

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Thanks for the update.

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I was going in here to suggest the same thing. I ran into an issue a while back where my PMDG flight wouldn’t import because of multiple entries in the main folder for other aircraft (Fenix A320 in my case). The issue would be prevented if we could preselect the downloader export files on the airframe setup.

So, an example would be if I create a PMDG 737-800 airframe, I could choose (checkboxes perhaps) the MSFS plan file, and the PMDG A/C specific plan, and PMDG .wx files. If, on the other hand, I am setting up a Fenix A320 airframe, I could choose to use only the MSFS plan file. Subsequent copies of those airframes would also carry those settings.

One thing to consider is people like me who setup their plan on one machine and use the downloader on my sim machine separately, so you wouldn’t necessarily be able to fully integrate the downloader into SimBrief (paths) without losing that ability, but you could still (I would think) have the ability to at least choose the types of files to export (maybe, maybe not)??

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