Can someone clarify the STEPS in doing a resume from save please as the RC manual is not clear. Do we have to be IN a flight and LOAD this flight from save? Do we open RC and LOAD RCD FILE from the button? Do we have to re-load our flight plan first in RC and then load RCD file? I don't get it. I somehow got it to resume but it looks like there is definitely an order to things when resuming from save for Radar Contact. If someone can just shed light on what is the correct order of things, I'd appreciate it, because this is getting to be a royal waste of time.Thanks,John

Can someone clarify the STEPS in doing a resume from save please as the RC manual is not clear. Do we have to be IN a flight and LOAD this flight from save? Do we open RC and LOAD RCD FILE from the button? Do we have to re-load our flight plan first in RC and then load RCD file? I don't get it. I somehow got it to resume but it looks like there is definitely an order to things when resuming from save for Radar Contact. If someone can just shed light on what is the correct order of things, I'd appreciate it, because this is getting to be a royal waste of time.Thanks,John

the explanation on page 118 - 119 i thought was pretty good. www.jdtllc.com/v4/rcv43.pdfbut the cliff notesstart fs, click fly now, get the plane at the gate, any gate, any airport, doesn't matter. just so fs is running, and not on a menu, a selection box, but running, clock on the panel ticking awaystart rc, click the load .rcd, select the .rcd file you want to resume, click start rc. rc will load the .flt and .wx files associated with the saved rcd into fs, and start the flight. rc will then load it's date from the .rcd file, and start from where it left offif you have any questions, let me knowjd

the explanation on page 118 - 119 i thought was pretty good. www.jdtllc.com/v4/rcv43.pdfbut the cliff notesstart fs, click fly now, get the plane at the gate, any gate, any airport, doesn't matter. just so fs is running, and not on a menu, a selection box, but running, clock on the panel ticking awaystart rc, click the load .rcd, select the .rcd file you want to resume, click start rc. rc will load the .flt and .wx files associated with the saved rcd into fs, and start the flight. rc will then load it's date from the .rcd file, and start from where it left offif you have any questions, let me knowjd

Thanks JD, your own explanation above is actually much more direct and clear than the manual. I had not encountered such a save from resume before where FS had to be not just "running" but loaded into an actual flight. I thought Radar Contact would open the appropriate flight from the FSX main "free flight" window if I just clicked on the RCD file. But since my post here, I have figured out how to do it and thanks to your reply, it made sense. It may seem a bit silly but with all the time and brain energy I was spending on trying to fix the serious performance issues in Windows XP 32-bit (switched to Win7-64 basically! :) ) and a problem with my main (and in fact my only used) payware aircraft, my mind was frankly too tired and frustrated to figure out a complicated resume from save procedure. I just wanted it to work ...Thanks again. Radar Contact is pretty good. Hopefully, though, version 5 will introduce some more realistic features like Oceanic clearance with Gander and Shanwick Oceanic control.John