Hi all, When I save any flight that I would like the SIM to start up with next time I can get away from the wife no matter what I do the SIM always starts with the Bill Gates default - the Cessna at Seattle. Now I'm no real newbie and have tried a few things but this is driving me nuts.I do tick the little box that says "Make this the default flight" and I call it "startup" and that seems to save to the correct location i.e. in the C:/Documents & Settings/User_Name/My Documents/Flight Simulator Files folder. I guess in writing this I have really solved my own problem - my thoughts are this - if I disable the opening screen (in fs9.cfg) then an I right in saying that this is the ONLY way the SIM will actually start at a place of choice with aircrfat of choice?. In other words is there any way you can start with the opening screen and the "Select a Flight" does NOT have the Seattle and Cessna as the opening gambit. I guess not.Gee this now sounds so confusing I think I'll take a shower. If it does make sense to anyone can that guru please confirm my thoughts or tell me that there is life after Flight Simulation - thanks.YES - this is the same DRAKY that used to live in Oz and got banned from that other nameless web site :)

DRAKY!!!!! Thought you'd disappeared for good. Glad to see you're here and still simming, too. I always appreciated your helpfulness to me and others (even remember a thread that praised you for such). Never got around to saying thanks before "the banning." So, thanks. :-)Check your FS9.cfg for the "USERINTERFACE" section and an entry that starts "SITUATION=" (without quotes in the file, though). Enter the path to the flight you'd like to use as your startup flight (ending in .FLT) and save the change. The Create A Flight screen should show your new flight on the subsequent startup. At least it has for me. Hope that does it...Happy flying, and Welcome!Kevin

And if you want to go directly to that flight without the opening screen showing at all, change the line in the FS9.cfg Startup section that reads SHOW_OPENING_SCREEN=1 to SHOW_OPENING_SCREEN=0 .Doug

Gee thanks Kevin & Doug.... sure will try these out, Kevin the welcome and thanks is much appreciated. Think this will be my new home from now, sure looks a happier and a bit like the old Cessna, a more stable place to "fly" hope I can help out a few fellow sim nutters like me in here - happy landings :)

Kevin - it worked!!! :) gee thanks mate - the SITUATION entry was a bit like my brain - a blank hehehehThe apparent gap in my "appearances" was mostly due to a shift of home from Perth down under in Oz back to the UK - now live in Leeds (not the best of moves I guess, never sould stand the cold weather! :) )Cheers! - Dave

Hi Draky,good to know you are back and your help is always appriciated (you helped me once with the flatten for Wonderful Rio).CiaoPeterIntel Mobo D875PBZ with Intel CPU P4 3.20GHz2.0 Gig 333MHz DDR SDRAMAsus / NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 (Omega 1.6177) (Q) (256 MB)Monitor Samsung SyncMaster 19"CH Yoke and PedalsWindows XP SP2

Hi DrakyGood to see you back and settled in Leeds despite the cold weather - you'll get used to it.Best regardsTony

So many old "faces" - I remember well the Rio scenery troubles and the hotels in the sea :) - Tony I'm actually at work down in Africa at the moment and will be back to the colder weather at end of January for a 6 week break. Time to put the feet up and get the yoke n pedals out again.About to change the video card to Nvidia 6800GT 256MB when I get back - will be interesting to see if there is any difference.Seems a few old buddies have moved over here - great!I plugged in the PC Latency Adjuster tool for this work computer (no video card but otherwsie a pretty powerful machine) last night and that sure made a positive difference to the frame rates - useful thread in here tells you all about it. Have not seem a stutter since. Thanks to the dude who posted that one.