I notice in my users/username/mydocuments/flightsimulatorxfiles directory that my saved flights are made up of 3 files with .flt .wx and fssave extensions. I'm curious as to why the 3 different files types and their purpose? 

.wx is obviously weather, drag one of your .flt files into Notepad and you can see what kind of info is stored there, the .fssave contains the screenshot you see on the "load flight" preview screen. If you had an active flight plan (from the flight planner) when you saved the flight there would also be an associated .pln file, .pln can also be opened in Notepad.

 

Jim

Thanks Jim. Usually I'm using live weather and I use flight planning software so really the only files I need then are the .pln ones. The rest are redundant in my case and I can just delete them?

Where did they come from, I mean you must have saved them for a reason? ...or are they some kind of autosave thing? In that case, yeah if your loading your flight from the freeflight screen and using RWW then there's not much point in keeping them. Now that you mention it I think my Flight Simulator Files folder could use a little clean up as well :smile:

 

Jim

I was saving the flight plan from Aivlasoft, so I guess it save everything. Nice to know what what I do and don't need before a cleanup! Thanks!!