Everytime I start a RC Adventure I find myself with a panel (PIC767 in this case) with the start levers on and lot of others swtiches off position. How can I enable RC to start the adventure in a dark cockpit enviroment? my default flight state is not taken into account when loading the adventure.

i'm not sure rc adventures are turning everything on. but i don't have pic, so i can't test. anyone else? another ms feature?

HiThis unfortunately happens when using 767PIC with RC. As far as I know, there is no workaround. Just reset the switches as soon as RC starts. V3 should not have this problem, as its not an adventure.Cheers,Eoin.

do all adventures do this?

>do all adventures do this? I Understand why this is happening....PIC767 has some options (non standard) included when you save a situation file (*.flt) this options come in the form of [PIC ASDF] [PIC AUTOPILOT] and so on.. they are specific options for PIC (My guess is that one of those options disables flight instruments and some switches particular to PIC)I don't know how an adventure compilation works, but it has to use a default *.flt file to get the situation from. When a RC Adventure is compiled none of the PIC options are included in this flt file (assuming there is one) or, maybe when an adventure is compiled it includes a default set of options, again, none of them particular to PIC, hence the cockpit starts with all the instruments and levers in odd positions... This does NOT happen with other panels because they use standard parameters in the flt file. My suggestion for a fix to this problem would be to understand 'how' an adveture get's compiled and where the adventure gets the situation from and start from there.

An adventure shouldn't (I reiterate shouldn't) care what flt file is being used. All the compilation does is make the core code with no notice of flt or wx files. Since RC doesn't even know if Flight Sim is running or not during compile, and doesn't access any of Flight Sim's files, then the issue looks to be more of FS than RC.Since there are multiple "features" that happen when an adventure, any adventure, is run, this is more a problem with FS2K2 than RC as well.I suggest trying another adventure (off the web or supplied by MS) to see if this problem persists. If not, then RC may need something. But I suspect it's yet another issue when running an adventure in 2K2.

Maybe not a flt file itself... but the INFO or parameters (default parameters that is) from it. Get it? The adveture should be generated with a default set of parameters (like the ones found in a common flt file) PIC uses NON STANDARD parameters.Then, again, the solution to this problem will be to fully understand the adventure compilation process and what parameters or WHERE Flight Simulator get this parameters from in adventure mode.

the adventure has no clue what you are running (fs98,fs2000, fs2002), what plane you are in, where you are in the world. the compilation is done in a vacuum.only when the adventure is started in a flight simulator platform, does it start interacting with it's environment. but fs has to be running, for an adventure to be startednow, the process of starting and adventure, may do some peculiar things, but the adventure doesn't set anything per se.

A workaround:1- Load FS2k2 with PIC.2- Load RC Adventure, it will turn on everything in the panel...ok3- Now the detail(VERY IMPORTANT): TURN OFF the engines (GND to OFF) and TURN OFF the two Recic Fan.4- Now you can load the Cold and Dark Panel, using the PIC "Load Panel From a Flight", and start the normal procedures.Hope this help.