Hello gentlemen,I don't understand what happened between last night and today, but I used the load manager (I can NEVER manually edit fuel/pax/cargo even with the latest version!) and went to fly the 744. The fuel was full no matter what I want the manager to do, and the pax/cargo weight was also full. This has NEVER happened before. For example, I load 214,000 lbs of fuel and a ZFW of 428.088 for a regular run I do almost weekly. But now it comes up full and with a GW of MAX! Also, the 744 Freight version has DISAPPEARED! I cannot find its aircraft config anymore. How on earth can this happen all by itself, overnight? It was PERFECT yesterday. System specs: Core2 Quad 2.83Ghz (45Nm) with 12Mb L2cache8Gb DDR3 RAM; GTX260 (968Mb) on Vistax64 (home premium) - USER ACCOUNTS ARE OFF and have been that way from day one of the PMDG's second install because it wouldn't work well with them on.As I said, it was working fine for over a year until this morning. I have the plane on the ramp now with the Jettison on to get rid of fuel the only way I know how. I reiterate that I never have been able to manually edit the fuel/pax/cargo even with the latest (1.2) version, hence my total reliance on the load manager that is now INOP. I noticed the 744F was gone when installing a new livery - I got "aircraft config cannot be found", so I looked for it manually and it is GONE! Where does the laod manager store its information? I searched for it everywhere and on my way, I noticed the panel states were also gone.It may look like a complete uninstall and reinstall is in order here for whatever reason, unless someone has a fix thay can think of. Windows did update last week, but it didn't mess with the PMDG at all. I didn't do anything else that could have caused this either, other than a couple of new airports (KIND and KMKE by Dream Scenery) yesterday. I didn't try the PMDG in them yet, but my PSS and Wilco's were fine at both these new airports. Today was the first day I tried the PMDG 744 in KIND with these new problems.Any help that doesn't warrant a fresh install would be appreciated. EDIT: I went back to the ramp to see the fuel jettison running all this time, but the fuel level topping itself up to full every minute or so! I don't get it....Looks like a complete uninstall and reinstall situation.Thanks in advance,Bill Alexander

You're not going to believe this! I tried something out that got me to the bottom of the fuel problem. I used the load manager, set fuel to minimum and no PAX, went to a default airport. The fuel was LOW and the GW was minimum. I then went straight to Dream Scenery's KIND and the fuel went to full! It must have to do with either the airport "topping up my tanks" as if I were parked at a pump a la default fs stuff OR it has to do with frequency control for the gate animations. This one has me baffled beyond belief! If I were to fly into KIND from somewhere else, does this mean that as soon as I land, my tanks will be topped up? Sounds INSANE, but it's true!! Time to write to Dream Scenery and see what (if anything) they say. As far as the 744F goes, I found the config outside of the aircraft's folder and sitting in the main FS folder on its own! So I put it where it belongs and my freighter is back. How freaky is all this?Cheers folks,Bill Alexander

Hello gentlemen,I don't understand what happened between last night and today, but I used the load manager (I can NEVER manually edit fuel/pax/cargo even with the latest version!) and went to fly the 744. The fuel was full no matter what I want the manager to do, and the pax/cargo weight was also full. This has NEVER happened before. For example, I load 214,000 lbs of fuel and a ZFW of 428.088 for a regular run I do almost weekly. But now it comes up full and with a GW of MAX! Also, the 744 Freight version has DISAPPEARED! I cannot find its aircraft config anymore. How on earth can this happen all by itself, overnight? It was PERFECT yesterday. System specs: Core2 Quad 2.83Ghz (45Nm) with 12Mb L2cache8Gb DDR3 RAM; GTX260 (968Mb) on Vistax64 (home premium) - USER ACCOUNTS ARE OFF and have been that way from day one of the PMDG's second install because it wouldn't work well with them on.As I said, it was working fine for over a year until this morning. I have the plane on the ramp now with the Jettison on to get rid of fuel the only way I know how. I reiterate that I never have been able to manually edit the fuel/pax/cargo even with the latest (1.2) version, hence my total reliance on the load manager that is now INOP. I noticed the 744F was gone when installing a new livery - I got "aircraft config cannot be found", so I looked for it manually and it is GONE! Where does the laod manager store its information? I searched for it everywhere and on my way, I noticed the panel states were also gone.It may look like a complete uninstall and reinstall is in order here for whatever reason, unless someone has a fix thay can think of. Windows did update last week, but it didn't mess with the PMDG at all. I didn't do anything else that could have caused this either, other than a couple of new airports (KIND and KMKE by Dream Scenery) yesterday. I didn't try the PMDG in them yet, but my PSS and Wilco's were fine at both these new airports. Today was the first day I tried the PMDG 744 in KIND with these new problems.Any help that doesn't warrant a fresh install would be appreciated. EDIT: I went back to the ramp to see the fuel jettison running all this time, but the fuel level topping itself up to full every minute or so! I don't get it....Looks like a complete uninstall and reinstall situation.Thanks in advance,Bill Alexander