I've got a small problem with my FSX installation - at least two of my payware aircraft do not initialize properly when loaded. Support replies from both have suggested that my default simulator settings have got messed up. In one case, I was told and I need to do a new save of a default aircraft (a fully featured one - not the trike) 'cold and dark', and it was suggested that I need to set the mixture (which implies I need to use a piston aircraft for the default). In the other case, I was told to get their aircraft into a properly initialized & cold dark state (which I was able to do by frigging around with their configuration popup) and save that as my default.

 

I've had success with the later but any deviation breaks the aircraft again and I don't want that as my default. I have never resolved the first one fully. And you'll notice the advice I got for each was exclusive of the other! Bottom line -  I have not managed to get my sim back into the state it once was, where both these aircraft loaded fine AND I had my default aircraft (the F18) was in a 'ready for take-off' state with the fuel tanks full.

 

Can anyone tell me where FSX saves all it's 'state variables', settings, default flights etc. so I can reset the simulation and get it back into the consistent working state it once was (without actually reinstalling)? I know that the fsx.cfg is saved out after each session (but I don't believe it saves any aircraft specific data other then the trusted guages). I know that there's a 'state' file for each aircraft saved in the User Appdata MS FSX directory - I've deleted this for one of the offending aircraft and let the game rebuild it but that didn't seem to help. I do not know where the default flight is saved - but given that I've updated it and still have problems, it appears I'm carrying the problems forward (if the problem lies in the Default flight) and have to find a way to reset it. I'm not sure if there are other locations where aircraft initialization and state data is stored. Any help/suggestions would be appreciated!

Try this from Flight1

 

http://www.simforums.com/forums/important-startup-flight-for-complex-aircraft_topic28987.html

Have your tried deleting your fsx.cfg  and letting it  rebuild,  than go back into  fsx , your  172   Cessna   go to  any airport  than  shut  down everything  etc  to a  cold  and dark state  than save  this  as your  default  flight  so whenever you start fsx  the Cessna will load  than you can select any other  aircraft   that you want.  Works for me.

Try this from Flight1

 

http://www.simforums.com/forums/important-startup-flight-for-complex-aircraft_topic28987.html

Interesting... that's worth a try. Thanks!

Thanks gents - I believe I have this fixed. The link I got from Henry gave me the clue I needed to crack this. The post implies that all the aircraft initial 'state' information is indeed stored in the default flight. Armed with that, I located the folder where default flights are saved (Documents\Flight Simulator X Files) and deleted the files storing the current default flight.

 

When I restarted FSX, it could not find the default flight, so it then created an initial flight using the Aircreation red trike (as per when FSX is first installed). I modified that flight to what I wanted (different location and aircraft) and saved that as my default. Voila! Clean default. Now both my problem aircraft are happy AND I have the default flight with the aircraft and location that I wanted.

Glad you got it working.