>Hi,>>Your "persistant situation" already exists in FS2004. It's>called Previous Flight. Select it, and check the Make Default>button. Then OK. You will return to FS as it was when you>last quit it.>>Hope this helps,I had no idea the effect of making the "previous flight" the default would, dynamically, make all "last fligts" the default one. I'll certainly try this out.Thanks!/Jonas

Try using one of your nice highly detailed addon airplanes as AI traffic. Then try using a couple of them at your favorite airport. :)Most addon aircraft do not make good AI aicraft even as "static" models. But if you really want to, and think your system can handle it, you could put aircraft that you fly (or similar AI models) at your favorite airports and give them a flight plan that would have them fly to that same airport at a time or day that you're unlikely to be flying around there. (Say in the middle of the night.) Then you basically have a static aircraft. By changing the ICAO and aircraft number you could do that for multiple aircraft at multiple airports. You'd just have to recompile the traffic file, which you could setup a shortcut or batch file to do. (I believe FS9 will also re-read the traffic BGLs if you change the sim rate to 8x or higher and then back down to 4x or lower.)For persistant aircraft to work the way you want it to (as I understand it) without 3rd party tools would likely require some major changes to the basic system.On another note, "Previous Flight.flt" is a flight automatically created when you (properly) exit FS9. You can easily jump back to that flight (or any other flight) by double clicking on it in an explorer window, even if FS9 is already running! :) If you have a multimedia keyboard, or anything else with a key/button that can be programmed to run a program, you may be able to just press a button to launch a particular flight. Including Previous Flight. (Very useful when tweaking AFCADs, scenery, or AI flightplans.) While programming you might have to trick it into showing the flight files though if it doesn't have an All Files option in the locate/open dialog box. Just type *.* or *.flt in a standard Open dialog and hit enter. (Now if only I could do that to an explorer window...)"Let me help you out. You're cleared to taxi any way you can to any runway you see."