KariCongratulations on this lovely aircraft. Very good visually and beautifully balanced.I have windows XP and also had an instant crash to desktop.If I select another aircraft first then change to the Fouga the problem has gone.Peter

Sorry to say that, but loading the defaut meigs/cessna flight, and then load the fouga, does not solve the problem for me. I can fly the fouga during ten minutes (just the time to take off and make an emergency landing at Meigs), and then fs2k2 crashes. Oh, an interresting thing, though: When i use the windowed mode, fs2002 just stops and winXP comes back to desktop. When i use full screen, fs2k2 freezes without error message, and i can still hear the sound.

I went ahead and changed panels (one of the same author's Drakken panels) and it works great now. Lovely plane and great flight dynamics. Thanks a million.MikeKOCF

And the problem doesn't exist either for any Win98. I'm really glad I've been conservative!Your Fouga is a fine plane! And lots of fun to mess around with. Thanks!