Hi allI've had RC since christmas and the firt few times I used it everything went OK. However, after installing some more add-ons (737PIC, Flying Club, SR-71, FSkyWorld) things went a bit wonky.The manual seems to suggest to load RC, set up the flight plan etc, load FS9 (which I do using FSAutoStart), set everything up in that, then Start RC, THEN press fly now in FS9.It started crashing with the infamous runtime 76 error, but if I set it running again with FS9 still going, everything went OK.I did the path fix, updated FSUIPC, rebuilt the scenery DB (I thought it might be something to do with the FC shoreham scenery add-on).Now it doesn't crash, but the FSUIPC window doesn't appear either, Is there a way of getting it to appear, or should I be starting FC AFTER i've pressed Fly Now.I was also having problems where RC didn't seem to know exactly where I was, but I've removed gyro drift so I'll wait and see what happens with that. BTW I've been using the PSS Dash-8 during all this testing.Cheers, ADY

Hi ADY,RC is the last thing you should load. Start FS, choose your aircraft and start airport. Load your weather and ensure the Ai has refreshed based on the weather. Then launch RC, load the plan and press Start.When RC starts the FSUIPC transparent window appears in FS.You will get errors if RC is started before FS.Hope that helps.

I have other addons such as FS Flightkeeper, Alert Pro. So what I do is start all these extra addons after FS has loaded a flight then start Radar Contact.Regards

Hi Jason,The loading of those applications isn't critical to the interaction between RC and FS. I also have FSFK but run it on a separate PC to FS/RC.The most important thing is that RC is started after the weather has been refreshed for your departure airport so that the appropriate runway is chosen and the Ai are reacting to the current winds. I know you know that but I wanted to reinforce the point for others :-)Cheers,

Hi ray,Yes that helps, I think I just interpreted the manual wrong to begin with, but you just confirmed what I suspected. Thanks, Ady

And slightly off topic to the original question, but in addition to what the others have said above, it's a good idea to wait a while between loading/setting weather and refreshing AI. When a flight is first loaded, the winds set are 000/0 by default. Now if you have wind smoothing on via FSUIPC or ASV or whatever and it is commanding a wind of 175/8, it can take a good 30secs or so for the winds to change to the actual forcast winds. If you refresh AI too early (say when the winds are shifting past 010/8kts) the AI will use that wind, not what the winds will become (175/8kts). I've learnt RC and AI and Wx programs stay in sync much better if you wait to refresh AI.Subs

Subs,An excellent tip! I shall bear that in mind in the future.BTW yesterday I managed to complete a flight for the first time where everything worked, no 'off course' warnings and vectored me the right way for final. Looks like everythings sorted!Cheers, Ady