hi guys,this is an update to the earlier post i did, about what would happen if you saved, then went back into that flight, well i did that, and this happened.the A/C went bonkers and i ended up with 3 engine fires, and 12000 feet above cruise alt.

Did you load that after having already had a different complex aircraft or a different livery/variant of the 747 already loaded?

Did you load that after having already had a different complex aircraft or a different livery/variant of the 747 already loaded?

yea, i went out, then went back in. is that the problem?

You need to completely shut down FSX before switching between different complex aircraft, even if it's two different liveries of the same plane (FSX sees that as two different aircraft loading sequences). It's a quirk of FSX, something doesn't reinitialize right internally and you'll see strange problems like the phantom engine fires etc... Try starting up FSX, go to the Free Flight screen and then hit Load, load the saved flight from there directly and it should come up ok in the sim. If you load the exact same aircraft with the same livery as the saved flight is, and then load the saved flight, that should work too. Loading just the panel state is fine at any time as that doesn't actually involve FSX's save flight system.There is an issue that can occur where the autothrust mode doesn't load up correctly after loading a saved flight, if that happens just cycle the AT and FD switches, reengage your modes on the MCP and that'll fix it.

You need to completely shut down FSX before switching between different complex aircraft, even if it's two different liveries of the same plane (FSX sees that as two different aircraft loading sequences). It's a quirk of FSX, something doesn't reinitialize right internally and you'll see strange problems like the phantom engine fires etc... Try starting up FSX, go to the Free Flight screen and then hit Load, load the saved flight from there directly and it should come up ok in the sim. If you load the exact same aircraft with the same livery as the saved flight is, and then load the saved flight, that should work too. Loading just the panel state is fine at any time as that doesn't actually involve FSX's save flight system.There is an issue that can occur where the autothrust mode doesn't load up correctly after loading a saved flight, if that happens just cycle the AT and FD switches, reengage your modes on the MCP and that'll fix it.

ok sweet, ill try that later because im halfway between heathrow and ciaro with 300 people in the back :( but thanks for the help