JD,I resolved my previous problem with the flight plan as suggested by you. I guess the plan itself was in error. This morning I tried again to load a different flight plan and it loads ok. The text box appears in as it should with the prompts for clearance and for weather briefing. However I am unable to unpause the sim to go on. MSFS2K2 seems to not be accepting key strokes. I have to hurry and go off to work and did not have time to experiment more. Probably something I am doing wrong.I start the simulator, pause it, and then start RC3. Is that the wrong procedure?Bob

Tried again and everything seemed to work fine. I am puzzled as to why sometimes I can't get out of pause in the sim. Perhaps it is something peculiar to my system. Will test some more tonight.

You must make sure FS is the active window. If you have adjusted Adv Display in any way you will find that it has made itself the active window. If you are in any doubt simply click on the FS main bar running across the top of the screen.