When I open P3D I get two error messages. The first is: "Prepar3d cannot find the aircraft for the requested flight. The default flight will now try to load."

The second is: "Prepar3d cannot find the default aircraft files. Please reinstall Prepar3D."

P3D then crashes.

I understand the the most likely cause is installing certain Captain Sim aircraft into P3D. However, I'm finding it extremely difficult to find a solution.

Any ideas?

Hi

 

I take it everything was fine before you installed the Captain Sim Aircraft?

 

If so ..I suggest you uninstall it from  control panel in windows ... and then do a system restore back to before you installed the aircraft 

 

Cheers

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Hi,

 

I've just started getting this problem after re-installing which took two flipping days. I really don't want to have to start from scratch and doing a restore is likely to wipe out good file changes. I do have captain sims 777 but its the P3D2 version. Does anyone know which file has become corrupt please, I can do a temp install on another machine just to get the original files but need to know what needs replacing. It wouldn't be the "Prepar3D_Default.fxml" under appdata\local\LM\P3Dv2 would it?

 

Any help is appreciated, I really don't want to have to start from scratch. I seem to spend more time installing the thing than actually flying these days!

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Andy

No, erase everything from  C:\Users\your username\Documents\Prepar3D v2 Files tthose are all the previous flights files.

 

Jorge

Hi Jorge,

 

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately that makes no difference. Any other ideas?

 

Thanks

 

Andy

Fixed it.

 

It is the "Prepar3D_Default.fxml" file under "user\appdata\local\lockheed martin\prepar3d v2". I replaced that with a previously saved flight called "Previous Flight.fxml" which was an autosave from FSUIPC, so pleased I turned that feature on now! Hey presto the sim now works. Not 100% sure what caused this but everything points to the Captain Sim 777 as it happened after running that aircraft.

 

What a pain... Hope this helps someone else in the future, last thing you want to do is reinstall everything again!

 

Andy

Good one Andy, that file should not be touched by any adon as it is the default fallback for P3D...

 

glad it;s OK now..

 

Jorge

Thanks Jorge, seems Captain Sim doesn't follow those rules  :huh: