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I will do just that. It makes perfect sense and may very well work. The problem is there are some 4,000 miles between both rigs, the one with the FSX Boxed and the FSX SE computer -but I'll use a pen drive. If that fails still, I will make it a habit to empty "External 2" whenever I load the Falcon 50 on my "eccentric" FSX. I love that aircraft so much that I find this sufferable. I'll keep you posted on how that goes but that will be a few weeks from now. Thank you once again for your help, time and support. Best wishes. Khalid

Hi Al I have always maintained that I think something is off with my sim, probably a bad add on or a leftover parameter from something? What I meant is whatever is triggering it lies in the .mdl file, for I have tried every possibility to change the fuel with the aircraft.cfg to no avail. Why is it being triggered with me only and not with others with FSX? surely something is anomalous with my sim,. Falcon 50 functions flawlessly with P3D V4 I haven't tried it with FSX SE, but I am sure it will function well. Thank you for your patience and help. I really appreciate it. Best wishes and best regards. Khalid

Hi Again, I have tried all of the suggestions you made but nothing seems to rectify the situation. I think it is in the .mdl file and that cannot be edited or modified. Re-installing my FSX from zero is out of the question, I cannot possibly go through the hundreds of hours I already spent on it. One thing to remark though, regarding the saved flights. I do not have any flights as "default safe flight...blä bla" and the other thing, when I edited my FSX.cfg, the situation flight is as follows: SITUATION=FLIGHTS\OTHER\FLTSIM I haven't the foggiest idea why is that path chosen (it is in c:\FSX) and what flight does it take me to, albeit my FSX still retains the default flight of the ultra-light over Friday Harbour. I'm totally lost here. I already own a copy of FSX steam and have P3DV4 installed as well. Thank you once more for your attempt to help and your time. Thank you and best wishes. Khalid

Hi, Tried all the steps suggested by you. Sadly no change. For some reason the sim is adamant to empty "External 1" I remember this very same situation happened to me when JustFlight released a service pack to upgrade their C-46 which included a flight model tweak using FDE. I had to use the pre-service pack aircraft.cfg to get her to run properly. It seems that FDE altered the longitudinal, lateral and vertical values of the fuel tank array in the aircraft.cfg while all of these were assigned at the CG before (zero values). I could very well be wrong but that was the only difference I could see. Thank you and best wishes. Khalid

Hi AI and thank you once again for your help. Will attempt your proposed solutions and report back. QUOTE: I just tried loading the C172 and then switched to the Falcon, and I didn't get any horn or warning sound (I assume you had both planes on the ground). So I think if the above doesn't work, it may be time to try a reinstall of the Falcon. UNQUOTE Yes both planes were on the ground. I shut down the 172 to a cold start situation just like you do in a real life 172 (i.e. power to idle, pull back the mixture to full lean, magnetos to off, and master switch to off.) I then changed the aircraft to Falcon 50 and this is when I got the horn sound, I tried the horn silence in the middle console but that doesn't seem to stop it. Its a two-tune horn like an ambulance or something. I never stalled her so I don't know if this is the stall warning. Anyway I will do the steps you recommended and revert to you with the results. Thank you once again and all the best. Khalid

Update: I did as per your instructions, changed into a C172 (stock FSX) and made sure the tanks were full, put her cold and dark, swapped into a Falcon 50 and I was getting a horn like an ambulance. No way to stop that horn. I saved the flight, but to no avail. I tried the other approach, stopped the engines and parking brakes on, summoned the fuel truck and loaded her full, saved the flight, but again when I restart FSX it defaults to an empty, non-fillable left tank. The only workaround is to empty the opposite tank. I tried filling both to 50% capacity but again the left empties once you exit the panel. I tired 20% each tank, again the left defaults to empty. I am sorry to trouble you with this but its nothing that one can tolerate. I am quite aware it could be something off in my sim, and I appreciate your helping me notwithstanding. Best wishes.

Thank you for the quick reply. Okay I will try the solutions you proposed and report back. Thank you once again and best wishes. Khalid

I just bought this aircraft a couple of days back and I like it. The problem I have is that when I start rolling down the runway it veers to the right and when I am airborne the aircraft banks to the right. When I looked up the default fuel load it turns out the it has one external tank full and another external tank at zero. When I empty the full external tank the aircraft behaves normal. I am trying to insert a screenshot but this forum wont let me for some reason? Maybe I finally succeeded. You see external 1 is empty while external 2 is at 100%. There is no way to get both externals filled. So I empty them both. with two tons of weight disparity out of the way the aircraft behaves normal once more. I am using FSX Gold (Boxed edition) Please help.

Funny you mention that about your 1TB WD, but slow access -if unjustified- could be bad news. Just one thing to check, is your suddenly-turned-slow-WD your boot drive? if so, please ensure that at least one quarter of its size/capacity is empty, e.g. 250GB or so free on a 1TB drive, or something in that region. Filling up your drive to the rim makes it slow, and leaves no leg room for swap files and other Windows' below-the-surface operations that need ample free space. I personally consider two thirds of any drive as the upper limit, especially if it is a boot device. Now with price per GB or TB so low, it is a non-issue, buy larger and expand. Maybe if you are on the verge of a major makeover, it may be prime time for you to introduce an ssd for a boot device, and here again don't try to economize, go for 256GB minimum, this should just about seat your Windows and its lot, and FSX with a fair deal of add-ons. Best wishes.

Hello, Don't panic, more likely than not, there is no hardware damage to your drive, just a corrupt mft. 9 out of 10 the stock chkdsk should be able to solve, FIRST: backup all of your vital data / files, then proceed with the repair. Restart and press F8 to get into safe mode, run cmd from an elevated privilege (i.e. run as administrator) and run chkdsk /f. Let it do its work. Even the message image you post suggests to you to use chkdsk. Alternately you can right click on "My Computer" icon on desktop and select manage, then on the leftt pane select "Disk Management" and on the right hand side, right click on your troubled drive, select properties and then tools then error checking and press the check now button. It will schedule a chkdsk for the next bootup. Just restart and let nature take its course. I know how wary one can be of the possibility of making things worse but you can't live with a corrupt mft. Hence my suggestion to backup first. There are tons of third party utilities that may help in the unlikely event that chdsks fails, but I really cannot be of any help in this field. Maybe you need to research that yourself. If all fails I always perform a full format, including deletion of all partition(s) and recreating from zilch, and then a fresh installation of Windows, but that is a lot of man-hours, sweat and blood, lets hope you won't need that and chkdsk sorts you out. Good luck.

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