Is there any way to restore the default flight in FSX without losing all my display settings? I know FSX has a "restore to default" mechanism in the form of a repair, but all I want to do is restore the default FSX flight.

I dont know if restore to default is the best move, but you can make a backup of your configuration by renaming your fsx.cfg, then do the restore and rename it back to fsx.cfg again. The default flight is not defined in that file, its defined in fsx\Flights\other\FLTSIM.FLT

No sooner than you posted did I manage to figure it out.For those of you wanting to know how to restore it back, simply back up your FSX.cfg file (on Win7 it's in C:\Users\$USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX) and edit the following line under [uSERINTERFACE]SITUATION=FLIGHTS\OTHER\FLTSIMSave and relaunch FSX. The default flight will then be loaded.

No sooner than you posted did I manage to figure it out.For those of you wanting to know how to restore it back, simply back up your FSX.cfg file (on Win7 it's in C:\Users\$USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX) and edit the following line under [uSERINTERFACE]SITUATION=FLIGHTS\OTHER\FLTSIMSave and relaunch FSX. The default flight will then be loaded.

Should be easier than that; I commented out the "Situation =" line and it went to the default flight with no reference at all to the location of the default... gotta be 'hard coded' in there somewhere.Loyd

I had backed up my original FSX.cfg file right after install and before I made any performance tweaks. I was able to compare my current to my original and that was the line that was in it. Either way, as long as the results are the same, commenting out or changing altogether both seem to work.