22 hours ago, Bert Pieke said:

From the above link:

" A temporary fix I just figured out is to delete the 4 files in:
User/name/AppData/Local/Packages/Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe/LocalState/MISSIONS/Custom/CustomFlight/ "

Succeeded to locate missions file and delete three files there.

It is possible now to start a new flight/acft/airport.

Only one question then: have to delete the missions files every time i start a new flight. Is this how it goes?

Best and thanks,  

23 minutes ago, Dee Myrone said:

Succeeded to locate missions file and delete three files there.

It is possible now to start a new flight/acft/airport.

Only one question then: have to delete the missions files every time i start a new flight. Is this how it goes?

Best and thanks,  

This is not normal - I haven't seen this and never heard of it before. Are you saying when you come back to the sim, the same aircraft/airport combination is defaulting in or the last flight flown?

1 hour ago, Donka said:

This is not normal - I haven't seen this and never heard of it before. Are you saying when you come back to the sim, the same aircraft/airport combination is defaulting in or the last flight flown?

The last flight flown,

Once the files populating the mission folder are deleted and the sim restarted, then everything is possible. 

Have you come from a different/older Flight Simulator. Do you have any tools installed like FSUIPC? Have you tried starting the sim in safe mode?

3 hours ago, Dee Myrone said:

Only one question then: have to delete the missions files every time i start a new flight. Is this how it goes?

Possibly... suggest you read through the link above that describes the problem and workarounds.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/i-cannot-load-any-different-airport-and-plane-always-the-same-airport-and-same-aircraft-non-ascii-windows-10-account-name/302113/62

You can try this:

"SOLVED!!!

It’s known that the problem appears when using non-english characters in windows user name because the sim can’t find the custom flight folder when you are setting up a new flight.

I’ve resolved the problem activating, in my Windows 10 (build 20H2), the “Beta version: Use UTF-8 for language compatibility” checkbox.

To do that, you have to go to “Control Panel” --> “Region” --> “Administrative” Tab --> “Change system regional configuration…” --> and check the “Beta version: Use UTF-8 for language compatibility” checkbox.

After that the problem doesn’t appear anymore and you can set up a new flight without any problem."

If you read down to the bottom of the linked past, you will see that this workaround may introduce flight plan problems.. so keep an eye on that.

Root cause seems to be a non-ASCII character in your Windows user name.  Tough for our friends in Scandinavia who routinely use an extended alphabet.

 

Edited April 21, 20233 yr by Bert Pieke

On 4/19/2023 at 1:44 PM, Dominique_K said:

How do you do ?

Good, and you?

16 hours ago, Bert Pieke said:

if you read down to the bottom of the linked past, you will see that this workaround may introduce flight plan problems.. so keep an eye on that.

Thanks to Dominic and Bert, you now have the full background story. I thought I should complete it with an indication of what works regarding the keyboard settings, since I have a Swiss French keyboard with a number of added letters used in French and German. With the following settings, I never had the problem you are mentioning in your first post in the past two years:

In Windows 11 Home "Settings" go to "Time and Language > Language and Region > Preferred Languages" > click on "add a language", select "English (United States)", and by right clicking on the three dots at the end of the line, move it below your own language, this way, your keyboard will not be affected when you type an email for example. Make sure the language pack, Basic typing and Handwriting are installed.

For each of the languages selected you should have the relevant keyboard also selected on that page (in my case for the first language I have the Swiss French keyboard, and for the second language, I have the English US keyboard).

On the same page "Time and Language > Language and Region > Administrative Language settings", click the tab "Formats": (adapt to your own country) French (Switzerland) in my case, click on the Tab "Administrative": > "Change system locale": select "English (United States)" if it is not already selected.

With these settings saved, restart your PC, and then go to the MSFS files indicated in Bert's post, delete them. Once this is done, restart again your PC, you won't have the MSFS problem anymore, your flight planning will work flawlessly, and you will not need to delete those Mission files again in the future (to answer your query).

 

Edited April 22, 20233 yr by Bernard Ducret

2 hours ago, Bernard Ducret said:

Thanks to Dominic and Bert, you now have the full background story. I thought I should complete it with an indication of what works regarding the keyboard settings, since I have a Swiss French keyboard with a number of added letters used in French and German. With the following settings, I never had the problem you are mentioning in your first post in the past two years:

In Windows 11 Home "Settings" go to "Time and Language > Language and Region > Preferred Languages" > click on "add a language", select "English (United States)", and by right clicking on the three dots at the end of the line, move it below your own language, this way, your keyboard will not be affected when you type an email for example. Make sure the language pack, Basic typing and Handwriting are installed.

For each of the languages selected you should have the relevant keyboard also selected on that page (in my case for the first language I have the Swiss French keyboard, and for the second language, I have the English US keyboard).

On the same page "Time and Language > Language and Region > Administrative Language settings", click the tab "Formats": (adapt to your own country) French (Switzerland) in my case, click on the Tab "Administrative": > "Change system locale": select "English (United States)" if it is not already selected.

With these settings saved, restart your PC, and then go to the MSFS files indicated in Bert's post, delete them. Once this is done, restart again your PC, you won't have the MSFS problem anymore, your flight planning will work flawlessly, and you will not need to delete those Mission files again in the future (to answer your query).

 

Thanks for your input Bernard and at that occasion my good memories of me living years ago at Sion (Valais) and Berne. Kind regards to all members here;

Dr. D. Miron 

3 hours ago, Dee Myrone said:

my good memories of me living years ago at Sion (Valais)

We were almost neighbours then!

7 hours ago, Bernard Ducret said:

Once this is done, restart again your PC, you won't have the MSFS problem anymore, your flight planning will work flawlessly, and you will not need to delete those Mission files again in the future (to answer your query).

@Dee Myrone  Would be interesting to hear from the OP if that indeed fixed it 😉

Edited April 22, 20233 yr by Bert Pieke

I experienced this problem before. The culprit was the Username (In C: User/ ****)containing non English characters, somethink like "ñ", I had to modify the User name with regedit to make it work.

22 hours ago, Bert Pieke said:

@Dee Myrone  Would be interesting to hear from the OP if that indeed fixed it 😉

Bert Hello,

OP? in Medicine it stands for "Original Pack" as required to be mentionned in prescriptions.

Anyway, I will keep for the time being the option of erasing the 3 files in Missions instead of option recommended above.

Prefer to avoid at this stage surgeries...

Best,

27 minutes ago, Dee Myrone said:

Bert Hello,

OP? in Medicine it stands for "Original Pack" as required to be mentionned in prescriptions.

Anyway, I will keep for the time being the option of erasing the 3 files in Missions instead of option recommended above.

Prefer to avoid at this stage surgeries...

Best,

That is fine.. happy you at least have a workaround.. 🙂

OP = Original Poster