the Space Shuttle will load, minus the gear, but the Challenge flights cause the sim to crash...anyone else having this problem?

Tried asking the author ;-)?The shuttle loads fine, with gear. You may have made the error, when the box came up saying "Disable animations?" on first loading, of saying "Yes". That means that the shuttle is now permanently registered in your FS9.CFG in that configuration which, yes, will mean no gear. Open your FS9.CFG, look for the section FRAMECALLNOWARN and look for the model name of the shuttle. Change 'shuttle=0' to 'shuttle=1'. That will give you gear.Haven't tried the flights yet, but did you change anything in the title line of the aircraft? That is what FS looks for ... check the title line, anyway, against what the flight situation itself looks for (which you can open with NOTEPAD to check). They should be the same.Mark "Dark Moment" BeaumontVP Fleet, DC-3 AirwaysTeam Member, MAAM-SIM[a href=http://www.swiremariners.com/cathayhk.html" target="_blank]http://www.paxship.com/maamlogo2.jpg[/a]

thanks for the info, that seemed to fix it...however, this info was not included in the readme, and so far I am not omniscient...