Whenever I try to load a saved file, Radar Contact reports that it cannot load the saved file. When I click on 'Load Previously Saved .RCD's' I see a progress bar. This seems to start and stick at about 10% for a while. Next it moves up to about 90% and halts. An error dialog tells me the flight cannot be loaded. If Radar Contact is minimized and the flight continued then Radar Contact starts at the correct point in time.This happens every time.I had thought it was caused by my creaking Dell XPS700 running XP but Dell replaced that under warranty with a XPS730 running Vista. I wondered if it might be the Level-D 763 but now I'm flying the RealAir Duke and I'm still seeing this wrong error message.This isn't a problem for me as I know to ignore the message but I thought I would share the work-around for anyone who has the same problem.Stephen

Whenever I try to load a saved file, Radar Contact reports that it cannot load the saved file. When I click on 'Load Previously Saved .RCD's' I see a progress bar. This seems to start and stick at about 10% for a while. Next it moves up to about 90% and halts. An error dialog tells me the flight cannot be loaded. If Radar Contact is minimized and the flight continued then Radar Contact starts at the correct point in time.This happens every time.I had thought it was caused by my creaking Dell XPS700 running XP but Dell replaced that under warranty with a XPS730 running Vista. I wondered if it might be the Level-D 763 but now I'm flying the RealAir Duke and I'm still seeing this wrong error message.This isn't a problem for me as I know to ignore the message but I thought I would share the work-around for anyone who has the same problem.Stephen

who is displaying the error message? there may be an issue trying to load a .rcd from one plane and load it with another plane. but that would be the ms fs error, which is normal.

who is displaying the error message? there may be an issue trying to load a .rcd from one plane and load it with another plane. but that would be the ms fs error, which is normal.

Here is an example. I started FSX and loaded a flight I did yesterday. Specifically, I used 'Load Flight' to load the flight files with the name, "Duke KSTL KBNA 03 Festus MO". The flight loaded perfectly as expected.I started RC and clicked 'Load Previously Saved .RCD's' with the file "Duke KSTL KBNA 03 Festus MO.rcd"The behavior described in my post was observed and produced the Radar Contact error message shown in the attached screen shot. Yesterday, I continued to fly the remaining hour of this ninety minute flight and saw no problems that might have been caused by the alleged absence of the .flt file. Oh, and I've not flown anything other than the RealAir Duke for over a month so there's no way I could have mixed planes.

Here is an example. I started FSX and loaded a flight I did yesterday. Specifically, I used 'Load Flight' to load the flight files with the name, "Duke KSTL KBNA 03 Festus MO". The flight loaded perfectly as expected.I started RC and clicked 'Load Previously Saved .RCD's' with the file "Duke KSTL KBNA 03 Festus MO.rcd"The behavior described in my post was observed and produced the Radar Contact error message shown in the attached screen shot. Yesterday, I continued to fly the remaining hour of this ninety minute flight and saw no problems that might have been caused by the alleged absence of the .flt file. Oh, and I've not flown anything other than the RealAir Duke for over a month so there's no way I could have mixed planes.

that would indicate that the Duke KSTL KBNA 03 Festus MO.flt, Duke KSTL KBNA 03 Festus MO.wx and Duke KSTL KBNA 03 Festus MO.rcd were not in the same directory, that is specified as your .flt/.wx pathalsois flight simulator, running, not just at the fly now window, but running, at the gate, with the clock ticking on the panel?

that would indicate that the Duke KSTL KBNA 03 Festus MO.flt, Duke KSTL KBNA 03 Festus MO.wx and Duke KSTL KBNA 03 Festus MO.rcd were not in the same directory, that is specified as your .flt/.wx pathalsois flight simulator, running, not just at the fly now window, but running, at the gate, with the clock ticking on the panel?

1) Screen shot of FS directory showing all save files in the same directory.2) Screen shot of RC showing .flt/.wx pathWhen I start RC, the flight is loaded and paused. As soon as I hit 'P' that plane is flying from the point at which I saved it. Radar Contact is also running in spite of the erroneous error message. It looks to me as if all the files are found and correctly loaded. If the .FLT file were not loaded into RC then I imagine RC would be very confused and I have not seen that.

1) Screen shot of FS directory showing all save files in the same directory.2) Screen shot of RC showing .flt/.wx pathWhen I start RC, the flight is loaded and paused. As soon as I hit 'P' that plane is flying from the point at which I saved it. Radar Contact is also running in spite of the erroneous error message. It looks to me as if all the files are found and correctly loaded. If the .FLT file were not loaded into RC then I imagine RC would be very confused and I have not seen that.

it looks like you are telling rc, the flt/.wx path is "e:\vista's documents\flight simulator x files". but your explorer window shows "e:\documents\flight simulator x files"jd

it looks like you are telling rc, the flt/.wx path is "e:\vista's documents\flight simulator x files". but your explorer window shows "e:\documents\flight simulator x files"jd

If I click on the down arrow to the right of that path (circled orange in the screen shot below) the path changes as shown. For Vista, these are two mapped paths that point to the same directory. This is just a Vista thing. RC used to misbehave in the same fashion on my old XP. I can't give you any screen shots from that as I no longer have it.

If I click on the down arrow to the right of that path (circled orange in the screen shot below) the path changes as shown. For Vista, these are two mapped paths that point to the same directory. This is just a Vista thing. RC used to misbehave in the same fashion on my old XP. I can't give you any screen shots from that as I no longer have it.

did you redirect your "my documents" to another folder? that's not as straight forward as most people think with vista. i suspect that rc is looking where you specified in the .flt/.wx path, but it's not going where we think it's going. there are several hidden folders in \appdata where these redirected vista system folders actually hide.

did you redirect your "my documents" to another folder? that's not as straight forward as most people think with vista. i suspect that rc is looking where you specified in the .flt/.wx path, but it's not going where we think it's going. there are several hidden folders in \appdata where these redirected vista system folders actually hide.

Yes. This is the common factor between this Vista system and my old XP system. All of 'my' files are kept where 'I' want them to be which is in a single folder that gets automatically backed up every day.