I am having difficulty getting my flight plans to work. Let me first say that I have been using PMDG 737, FS 2004 along with FSBuild for quite some time and no problems. I have successfully in the past loaded new flight plans from FSBUILD as well as recall flight plans from within the FMC to fly that were saved. Something odd happened today. For some reason, all my flight plans that I can visibly see in the FMC under Nav Data, will not load. I get a "not in database...program error" every time I try. I went and checked the Flightplan folder under PMDG and all the flight plans are visibly there. I said ok, let me start over then. I then deleted all of them to start anew and went to FSBUILD to rebuild one of the flight plans that was in there. It loads beautifully and when I look in the folder, it is there. Unfortunately, it still is not recognized by the FMC. This is odd. The only thing that I did recently was update my AIRAC from Navigraph. Could this have been the cause? Any suggestions on what to try. Christian Williams

I am having difficulty getting my flight plans to work. Let me first say that I have been using PMDG 737, FS 2004 along with FSBuild for quite some time and no problems. I have successfully in the past loaded new flight plans from FSBUILD as well as recall flight plans from within the FMC to fly that were saved. Something odd happened today. For some reason, all my flight plans that I can visibly see in the FMC under Nav Data, will not load. I get a "not in database...program error" every time I try. I went and checked the Flightplan folder under PMDG and all the flight plans are visibly there. I said ok, let me start over then. I then deleted all of them to start anew and went to FSBUILD to rebuild one of the flight plans that was in there. It loads beautifully and when I look in the folder, it is there. Unfortunately, it still is not recognized by the FMC. This is odd. The only thing that I did recently was update my AIRAC from Navigraph. Could this have been the cause? Any suggestions on what to try. Christian Williams

Sounds like a security issue on the flight plan folder. What OS are you running?

Sounds like a security issue on the flight plan folder. What OS are you running?

Using XP media center. After my post, I jumped the gun and restored my computer to an earlier timeframe (before the AIRAC cycle update). I went a step further and uninstalled both fs2004 and PMDG then reloaded both. I was able to get it to work then. Not sure where the problem could have been. This has been a tough weekend. I had my sights set to fly and have spent more time fixing problems. I know we have all been there before with this hobby so not complaining. My newest and technically hardest problem to figure out is with my night time flying. I can not see a thing. The panel lights come up but I can't even see a glimpse of the "grey" on the panel itself in 2D. Also, while parked at the gate at the airport from which I fly out of, I can not see a thing practically. It is like the textures are much darker than ever. I can not see the tarmac at all. This has not always been the case but I did recently get a new display, and I'm starting to believe it is due to the "cheapness" of this thing.

I can't see many of the screenies posted here on my monitor at work due to the cheapness of it.

Using XP media center. After my post, I jumped the gun and restored my computer to an earlier timeframe (before the AIRAC cycle update). I went a step further and uninstalled both fs2004 and PMDG then reloaded both. I was able to get it to work then. Not sure where the problem could have been. This has been a tough weekend. I had my sights set to fly and have spent more time fixing problems. I know we have all been there before with this hobby so not complaining. My newest and technically hardest problem to figure out is with my night time flying. I can not see a thing. The panel lights come up but I can't even see a glimpse of the "grey" on the panel itself in 2D. Also, while parked at the gate at the airport from which I fly out of, I can not see a thing practically. It is like the textures are much darker than ever. I can not see the tarmac at all. This has not always been the case but I did recently get a new display, and I'm starting to believe it is due to the "cheapness" of this thing.

Try turning the contrast up.