Hello all. I am new to flight sims and to FSX in particular. Having spent many years immersed in different 'shoot-em-up' games and recently the Silent Hunter submarine sim, I thought I'd take a look at FSX after a friend recommended it. Well I can say I think I'm hooked and I've only been playing with it for about a week.

 

Only problem is that I'm having issues with setting up free-flight custom trips. I set them up in the Free Flight section of the pogram, only to find that the flight I plan isn't available in the saved list. In fact none are there to load at all. I am running Windows 8, which in every other way handles FSX perfectly.

 

Can anyone suggest what may be the problem?

Can anyone suggest what may be the problem?

 

Are you trying to Load your saved flight plan from the main free flight page or are you clicking on Flight Planner then clicking on Load? The latter is where your saved flight plans are loaded.

 

And welcome to FSX! This is really the wrong forum for this question as this forum is used to provide information about yourself, interests, etc. I'll see if I can't get it moved to the FSX Forum.

 

Best regards,

Jim

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Just to update the situation, I ended up uninstalling FSX and re-installing it on my remote hard drive. I read somewhere that the default install on windows 8 can sometimes cause conflicts to do with the multi-user framework that causes errors in where and how files are saved in FSX.

 

All is fine now and working perfectly!!

All is fine now and working perfectly!!

 

Hey! Another welcome to FSX! AvSim is a great place to start on learning what is here and what is possible. There are years and years of knowledge here unbeat anywhere.

 

A really good post on another forum over at Aerosoft gives a pretty solid introduction to Flight Sim for new users, give it a read when you have a minute! : http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/59367-new-to-flight-sims-read-this-to-get-some-basic-information-about-this-fascinating-hobby/