on all my aircraft my contrail(s) look fine exept that there is one that falls to the ground? what's up? anybody know?

Put the default contrail.fx file back and it'll be fine. I'm guessing you tried either 2002's contrail.fx or some other one.

Or perhaps try this fix I found on another forum...Go to your C:/FS2004/EffectsThere should only be 2 contrail files therefx_contrail_l.fxfx_contrail_s.fxremove (and/or backup) any other contrails you might have there.Jim

OK THANKS I'll see if that works.