Hi all, I have been using FSX for a few years now. I never noticed however, that of the default planes there are some odd things going on with the liveries that come with FSX. First of all, I am running FSX with SP2 (not the excelleration expansion pack). When I want to select a plane and I go through all available liveries for all planes (have the corresponding checkbox checked), the first thing that catches my attention is that the cessna C172SP red&gold colored livery is plain WHITE. Mind you, I have the Italian version of FSX, so I am not sure to what extend I am dealing with a lost translator.Then, when I get to the Cessna Caravan, all liveries are plain WHITE, even though the thumbnails suggest differently. Even there, the thumbnail of the white livery is exactly the same as that one of the Global Freightways livery. Now I am not sure if maybe one of the service packs might be responsible for this, but I do know that commercial add-ons are not at fault, because I just now finished a clean reinstall of my whole system (Windows 7 x64), to rule that option out. When I google the problem I am having I find nothing on the web, hence the reason I am posting my problem here, hoping that someone might be able to help me solve it. It is not a huge issue to me, I mostly fly add-on planes, but in the rare event that I would want to fly the Cessna Caravan, I wouldn't mind having some color on my plane! Anyway, if you guys have any ideas as to what I might be able to do to fix this small, but annoying, problem, I'd be very appreciative of that.

I can't imagine that I am the only one who faces this problem. C'mon guys, give me a hand.

Patience, my friend. Expecting a response in 2 hours is a bit much. That being said, what you see with the C172 is what I also see. The aircraft.cfg for the red and gold livery points to the plain white texture folder and there are no unused texture folders. Looks like Microsoft messed up that one. You could edit the aircraft.cfg [fltsim.5] section and change ui_variation= "Red, Gold" to "White" RE: the Caravan. I also have the Global Freightways thumbnail in the plain white folder, another MS "feature". However I get the right liveries in the sim when selecting any of the Caravans, unless I pick the white one. Once I pick the white one, trying to change to another livery doesn't really work. The reg number will change but the plane stays white. Seems to be a bug in the texture fallback routine. I would guess the only way around this is to not select the white livery. Hope this helps. regards,Joe

Thanks for your reply Joe, much appreciated. I guess I got the perks of the game then. Oh well, I'll just edit the cessna config file and make sure not to select the caravan white livery before selecting another one if I want color. Let's hope that with the next version they QA a bit better this time.