My 3 hour flight ended suddenly. There I was after a 3 hour flight, on final, gear down, flaps set and just starting to flair for a landing, when suddenly...... my fricken computer just decided to reset its self. (enter expletives here) I coulda handled it in mid flight or at the start of the fight, but just as I was about to land ??? GRRRRRRRRRsorry, I just had to vent. now I must go and edit my flight log... I'll be damned if I'm not going to credit myself for that flight. LOLregards,bobfor the record, I have an AMD 700 w/640mb ram, GForce 2 MX with 32mb ram (NVidia 29.4.2 driver), WinXP (home). This hasn't happened before even while 3D modeling using Rhino.

I hate when something like that happens. I've done stupid things like set up a perfect landing... then realize, as I'm hitting the runway, that I forgot to deploy my gear. :-newburn I've also had FS freeze after a long flight. Sometimes this stuff just happens.

Within your system specs . . .>>for the record, I have an AMD 700 w/640mb ram, GForce 2 MX >with 32mb ram (NVidia 29.4.2 driver), WinXP (home). This >hasn't happened before even while 3D modeling using Rhino. . . . I don't see a disk drive mentioned. While I'm sure that you have one, I wonder about its size and how much free space that you have.The reason for my concern is because, just this week, I loaded a LOT of stuff onto my drive and then got lazy and did not finish the job and delete the leftovers. No problem until I started FS2002 and FSFlightMax and S-Combo and flew from KRNO to KSEA. Like you, all went fine until I was on final and then WHAM -- FS2002 crashed with a message that the machine had run out of memory.I didn't see how it could be out of RAM, but I found there was only 82MB free on the disk. Just to be sure, I flew again and it crashed again (this time at FS310 over KLMT). I freed up disk space and it has not happened since. Check it out just in case. R-

thanks for the thought, but no... I have about 7 gig free on the drive that FS2002 is on and 4 gig on the drive WinXP is on. I hope that is enough... LOLthanks again,bob

Unclebob, and others...Autosave, by Peter Dowson, will solve all of your problems. You can set it to save your flights at whatever interval you want. I have it set to save them every 10 minutes.It is here:http://ftp.avsim.com/library/search.php?Se...&CatID=msfs2002

Thanks guys for the heads-up on Auto-Save.I haven't experienced the, undoubtedly most frustrating, experience of Uncle Bob (I have an Uncle Bob):) but it just occured to me that I have had an oft repeating problem, usually when I have to minimize the screen to check a Call-Wave ,message or something, of my throttle cluster becoming diengaged (Fly DC-3 90% of the time). What I mean is that I'll go to make an adjustment (throttle, prop, mixture) and suddenly discover that only one is responding. Fiddling with the E+1+2 keys have made no difference. At best, all I could do was switch back and forth between the two engines. Not a total SNAFU but when you don't discover this problem until you begin your final descent and try to land like this, it can keep you busier than a one-legged man in an xxx-kicking contest in keeping those engines matched. I can see where Auto-Save can be handy in getting me back to a point before this anomaly happened.Thanks!Heather