I use FS2002 and this only appears to happen in the UK. I've experimented elsewhere and it hasn't happened yet.When I create a flight and start at the active runway, the heading indicator is aligned correctly with the runway. If I then take off, and either change aircraft after a few minutes, or switch to a different airfield, the heading indicator and compass jump about 118 degrees to the right eg if it should be pointing North it jumps to 118. Mainly it's possible to reset the heading indicator, but not the compass. If I then select a different airfield it jumps back to the incorrect heading. Resetting the flight doesn't make any difference. The only way to get the thing right again is to shut down the program and restartThis seemed to start happening when I installed UK2000 Part 3 & 6 airfields, but I'm not sure if they're the culprit.Any help to solve this problem would be appreciated. It's almost impossible to fly IFR any more.Graham Elder

Can be caused by a rogue AFCAD file.Best thing to do is switch off you more recent scenery areas one at a time until the problem goes away. Once you locate the folder with the faulty file I'd suggest moving five or six BGL's out at a time to a spare folder until you find the offending one.boneshttp://fsaviation.nethttp://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/ng_driver.jpg

I had this problem in FS2002, flying in Southern California. When I systematically removed sceneries, I found that the culprit was one of the Oil Rigs. I had put all my Oil Rigs, by different authors and in different parts of the world, into the same folder to conserve Layer Numbers in scenery.cfg, so I don't know which one of these it was. I never bothered to sort this out, as I don't fly helicopters much, and I'm luck to put one of them down anywhere near an airport, let alone an oil rig pad.Note that the Oil Rigs I had installed are off the British Coast, off the Atlantic Coast of Canada and somewhere off Australia. They are nowhere close to Southern Cal, so don't assume that geograpical proximity is the key. Some may have been for FS2004, also, although I've generally had good luch installing FS2004 scenery in FS2002.

Thanks guys. I thought it might possibly have something to do with magnetic variation, in that one of the files I had installed had changed the variation by 118 degrees generally in this area, although local variation was set by the AFCAD file for the particular airfield. Does anyone have any idea how magnetic variation is set blobally in FS2002? If I could get into that file I could check out my theory. Anyway I'll do some testing along the lines that you have suggested.Graham Elder

GrahamWhen you loaded your UK2000 airports could you have accidentally loaded the AFCAD2 files meant for FS2004 - I think I did. These may be the culprit causing your problem. I would uninstall UK2000 and try again.Hope this helpsTony

Thanks Tony. I eventually found the problem by a process of elimination. It was somewhere in UK2000 Part3. Must have been a corrupt AFCAD file. Uninstalled it, then reinstalled testing all the way. Also downloaded and installed the latest upgrade. Everything seems OK now.Many thanks to all for help.By the way, if anyone's interested, since they changed to library section to logging on etc, I hadn't been able to download anything. Kept getting "The page cannot be displayed". Went through all the FAQs and couldn't solve it. Eventually saw the note at the end suggesting try another browser. Now using Mozilla Firefox and it's brilliant. So if anybody has similar trouble, change your browser.Graham Elder

GrahamGlad you're sorted - Uk2000 are really superb and Garry and his team most helpful, I'm sure you'll enjoy flying them. I'm UK based about 30 miles N of EGSS so I use that and EGGW for my holiday fights.Seasons GreetingsTony