Do you have a saved flight for testing new addon aircraft?

To test my new downloaded aircraft, any mods I may have made to the panel and/or ATC call entries, Navaids work and AP entries in the aircraft.cfg, I have a saved flight starting from KORD--O'Hare Intl with the default C172-- at 12 noon,summer, clear weather, rwy 32L.

 

It is named "1 KORD dep 12 noon.FLT", so it is at the top of my saved flights list.

 

I have saved the same flight but cold and dark (same a/c etc)--so as to test engine starts and their related actions.

 

It is named "1 KORD dep 12 noon COLD-DARK.FLT".

 

I take off and I can fly to Palwaukee Mun, Meigs, Gary, Midway or even back to KORD to test the plane, landing it etc, including ATC call entries that I usually modify, and any repaints I have downloaded or made myself.

 

Having used these 2 flights for a long time, I am very familiar with the area and its features and therefore do not waste time searching. An example of this is that to go to Midway, I know I must set the autopilot to heading 15, and Midway usually gives me runway 14L to land on.

 

Do you have such a flight you always use?

 

Nick

Athens, Greece

I do a lot with AI and I have 2 airports I use to test, like above I know the area and know more or less when the change of course is coming etc.

ColR1948,

 

Do you mean you do your own AI Traffic files?

 

If yes, have you uploaded any I could get?

It looks like you fly in the USA, I mainly fly in the UK/Europe, try here:

 

http://unitedtrafficteam.com/index.php/ai-flight-plans

I don't have saved flights for testing, but I do all my testing at KEDW. Sometimes long runways come in handy for trouble shooting.

Another idea is to rename the 'Aircraft' folder to something like 'AircraftOrig' then do another 'Aircraft' folder and just put your test aircraft in there, FS will load faster then after the test/s rename the original aircraft folder back again.

Yes - you can get as extreme as you like with this notion, too.

If I know I'm going to do multiple sim starts and exits while examining some or other bit or piece:

 

• Aircraft folder gets renamed and swapped out with one containing just the stock C182 (used for the default flight) and whatever is of interest.
  
• Scenery/world/scenery is swapped out with one containing no traffic files
  
• scenery.cfg goes, replaced by bog standard one with one addon, my testing ground in the middle of Nowhere.
  

 

When last did you see FS9 restart in under 10 seconds :)