Saving Flights

[bobr2]

I am having trouble now saving flights so the Flight Sim will open to the saved flight. Any help on this one?

[mrzippy]

So....you're hitting the semicolon key and naming the flight and then hitting the SAVE button? Are you looking in the correct place for this "saved flight"?

[jandjfrench]

Hi bobr,

If you'd like to save the flight and then continue that flight the next time you start FSX check the Set as default flight box.

Jim F.

[mrzippy]

Hi bobr,

If you'd like to save the flight and then continue that flight the next time you start FSX check the Set as default flight box.

Jim F.

 

Why do that? Just hit the LOAD button and select the saved flight. I have a "saved flight that I haven't finished yet. I'm at cruise altitude with about 2 hrs left before landing at my destination. I may finish it tomorrow.

 

Start FSX and hit LOAD.

 

Now choose the flight you want to continue with and hit Fly Now.

[jandjfrench]

Hi zip,

No problem doing that but in the initial post he said he wanted FSX to "open to the saved flight".

A while back I was doing cross country flying and after landing at an airport and after shutting down I'd save the flight under the same title with it set as default. The next time I'd fly I would first check the time and weather and choose my next destination and an aircraft the seemed appropriate and start cold and dark from the same parking spot. I thought perhaps that bobr was doing something similar.

Jim F.

[mrzippy]

Hi zip,

No problem doing that but in the initial post he said he wanted FSX to "open to the saved flight".

A while back I was doing cross country flying and after landing at an airport and after shutting down I'd save the flight under the same title with it set as default. The next time I'd fly I would first check the time and weather and choose my next destination and an aircraft the seemed appropriate and start cold and dark from the same parking spot. I thought perhaps that bobr was doing something similar.

Jim F.

 

OK, gotcha! I was hoping to save him some possible grief from constantly changing his default flight.

[bobr2]

Jim F. is correct on what I would like to do. Use to be that I could save flight and click on box as start up flight. Though when I do it now it will open to the default flight instead.

bobr

[jandjfrench]

Hi bob,

How are you exiting FSX? When FSX is in the process of shutting down the default flight is written to FSX.cfg. If you check the [uSERINTERFACE] section the default flight will be found after "SITUATION=...."

If you shut down the computer without exiting FSX properly the file will not be updated. I can't think of anything else that would cause the problem.

Jim F.

[napamule2]

Whether you are 'Up In The Air' (like Zip (pun intended (hehe)) or on the ground 'Cold and Dark' like JandJ (sorry Jim - no offense (hehe)) the KEY is to check box that is next to 'Save as Default' -AND- must exit FSX (for it to be saved). On starting FSX, and click on 'Fly Now' that saved flight will be loaded.

 

But the sim works best when the 'default flight' aircraft is the FSX C-172 as this will set up some parameters that do not get 'initialized' when the 'default' aircraft is a 3rd party model. So it's best to ALWAYS make the 'C172' the 'default flight'. Then change aircraft and set up (time, weather,airport, etc) and save as 'flight' you can load anytime AFTER FSX starts up with the C172 (as default flight).

 

So to get to this 'saved' flight you go to Menu (Flight>Load). In 'Category' your saved flights will be in 'My Saved Flights' (dah!). Click on NAME of flight, then click 'Fly Now'. It don't matter if your flight is now the C172 - when you choose a flight you also choose what airplane (it can be 3rd party, etc) will be loaded by FSX as it's part of that 'saved' flight. Ha!

Chuck B

Napamule