Hello all,I have encountered a strange problem in FS2004 recently. It started when I did a de-frag of my hard disk, and cleaned out some clutter from it. I must have deleted something from FS2004 because I have a strange proglem going on. It has to do with ATC. On airport property, ATC is fine (clearance delivery, ground, tower for takeoff, departure), but then departure control never hands me off to anybody else, even though I have filed an IFR flightplan. When I get close to my arrival airport (100 miles or so) and am preparing for descent, I get no ATC communications whatsoever. Sometimes, all I get in my ATC command box is the option "Nearest Airport List." It doesn't matter how long my flight is. For example, I flew from JFK-SEA, and was in contact (although, nothing was said) with JFK Departure all the way to SEA. I have done this flight before, and have talked with Chicago and Minneapolis and Salt Lake City enroute.Also, the radios are eerily quiet. There is no radio chatter anymore, from anybody. There are aircraft on the ground and at gates and parking stands, but nobody ever seems to move. There have been occasions where one or two AI aircraft do taxi and depart, but the communication with them is strange too. Instead of calling "Delta 123, cleared for takeoff," ATC will say " 123, cleared for takeoff," with a space before 123 where Delta should be. I use Project AI aircraft, and I tried re-installing all of them, but it did not fix the problem. I have traffic set at 50%, because that's about all I can handle.Other than those two issues, everything else seems to be working correctly. No texture issues, no scenery issues. I do have a few aircraft texture and panel issues, but those are easy fixes, if and when I want to use those aircraft.So, any ideas on how to remedy this problem? Perhaps, a program that can fix the missing files or whatever is causing the problem?Thanks in advance,Adam

Hello all,I have encountered a strange problem in FS2004 recently. It started when I did a de-frag of my hard disk, and cleaned out some clutter from it. I must have deleted something from FS2004 because I have a strange proglem going on. It has to do with ATC. On airport property, ATC is fine (clearance delivery, ground, tower for takeoff, departure), but then departure control never hands me off to anybody else, even though I have filed an IFR flightplan. When I get close to my arrival airport (100 miles or so) and am preparing for descent, I get no ATC communications whatsoever. Sometimes, all I get in my ATC command box is the option "Nearest Airport List." It doesn't matter how long my flight is. For example, I flew from JFK-SEA, and was in contact (although, nothing was said) with JFK Departure all the way to SEA. I have done this flight before, and have talked with Chicago and Minneapolis and Salt Lake City enroute.Also, the radios are eerily quiet. There is no radio chatter anymore, from anybody. There are aircraft on the ground and at gates and parking stands, but nobody ever seems to move. There have been occasions where one or two AI aircraft do taxi and depart, but the communication with them is strange too. Instead of calling "Delta 123, cleared for takeoff," ATC will say " 123, cleared for takeoff," with a space before 123 where Delta should be. I use Project AI aircraft, and I tried re-installing all of them, but it did not fix the problem. I have traffic set at 50%, because that's about all I can handle.Other than those two issues, everything else seems to be working correctly. No texture issues, no scenery issues. I do have a few aircraft texture and panel issues, but those are easy fixes, if and when I want to use those aircraft.So, any ideas on how to remedy this problem? Perhaps, a program that can fix the missing files or whatever is causing the problem?Thanks in advance,Adam

In your FS9\Aircraft folder there should be a file named airlines.cfg If it's gone, I'd grab a copy of the program 'editvoicepack' and run it. It updates all the phrases used, corrects pronuciation, and adds airline names and models. In the "tools" menu, there is a command "update airlines.cfg

Thanks Ted,I took a look in my Aircraft folder, and I did have that Airlines.cfg file you mentioned. I opened it up, and it was chock full of airlines (and, for some reason, neater than it's ever been). I downloaded and ran Editvoicepack, and it seems to have fixed the problem. I did a quick sample flight this afternoon, and encountered normal IFR radio operations and traffic. I am still a little short on traffic, so I thought I would fool around with the traffic percentage and see what happens.Thanks again very much. I knew AVSIM would get the job done!!Thanks again,AdamP.S. Everybody should have Editvoicepack. Love the updated communications. I don't know how I have been flying all these years without it!!