Help !!I am getting the following message everytime I load the sim:"Aircraft Initialization FailureCessna Skylane 182S MyPaint00"CLOSEthen it closes.Please help !!!!Juliet Lima

Presumably at some time you have either installed a new paint job C182S or altered one of the default ones. Check the aircraft file in MS Games/FS9/aircraft/C182- there should be 5 versions normally listed as fltsim 0 to fltsim 4. If there are more you need to either delete the extra from the file ( presumably this will be fltsim5/"mypaint00") or ensure that the neccessary textures are in the aircraft folder as "texture 4".(there are only 4 default textures as fltsim 0 and fltsim 1 use the same textures) The alternative is to(temporarily) remove the complete C182 but some of the files may well be used by other aircraft so this may not be a good permanent idea but possibly a quick way of checking that nothing else is causing this.Someone shoot me down if I'm wrong about this...........?Dave

1. Press Start, All Programs, Microsoft Games, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004, Troubleshooting, Reset Defaults.2. Rename your FS9.CFG file to FS9.OLD. Restart FS2004, let it stabilize and the problem should be corrected.3. Otherwise, open the FS9.CFG file and search for the:[uSERINTERFACE]SITUATION=Delete everything after SITUATION=, then save the file. Restart the FS2004.W. Sieffert

Thanks so much Dave, it really worked.... Now I am back on the skies...Have a nice weekend man !Juliet Lima

This is great...!I am gonna save it for futre reference... It is a lot easier that the solution provided by Dave..Thnaks so much for helping... Great weekend to you now !!Juliet Lima