Default flight

[gary]

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Greetings oh wise ones ...

I have always had the understanding that I should fire up FS, load my
default flight which is the stock cessna at KSEA, then go on to load
whatever funky add-on aircraft I feel like flying.

I read a snippet of a thread a couple of weeks ago that suggested this
is not the case - as long as my default flight is a stock aircraft at
a stock airport I don't actually have to load the flight, just the
fact that everything is standard is enough to hit all the right reset
buttons.

Now, naturally, I can't find the snippet again. It was in a support
forum somewhere but that's ll I can remember so I can't follow it up
with the original poster.

Would anyone here like to comment ?

Thanks
Gary

 

[slap]

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Save a flight anywhere, anytime, anyplace (your favorite dirt field for
example) and before saving it click 'make default flight'.

Next time you start FS you will be in that field... or 20,000 feet in the
air, or whatever you last saved.

"Gary" <chairmanSPAM@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
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> Greetings oh wise ones ...
>
> I have always had the understanding that I should fire up FS, load my
> default flight which is the stock cessna at KSEA, then go on to load
> whatever funky add-on aircraft I feel like flying.
>
> I read a snippet of a thread a couple of weeks ago that suggested this
> is not the case - as long as my default flight is a stock aircraft at
> a stock airport I don't actually have to load the flight, just the
> fact that everything is standard is enough to hit all the right reset
> buttons.
>
> Now, naturally, I can't find the snippet again. It was in a support
> forum somewhere but that's ll I can remember so I can't follow it up
> with the original poster.
>
> Would anyone here like to comment ?
>
> Thanks
> Gary

 

[Guest]

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Hi Gary,

On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 01:17:45 +1200, you wrote:

> Would anyone here like to comment ?

This is something I always refer to when people mention changing the
default flight:

http://forums.flightsim.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=24&topic_id=47&mesg_id=47&page=

Or, if that wraps badly, try this:

http://tinyurl.com/5k9gl

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[dallas]

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"Gary"
> I have always had the understanding that I should fire up FS, load my
> default flight which is the stock cessna at KSEA, then go on to load
> whatever funky add-on aircraft I feel like flying.

To summarize what people have been trying to say:

No, you don't have to do that at all.

Exception:

If a particular aircraft has been giving you trouble, then sometimes the
cure is to load it into the default flight and go from there.


Dallas

 

[Guest]

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Did you not guess that your default flight can be anything you make it? Any
aircraft any field, any piece of sky, any cockpit setup, any height. Just
set it up, save it and make it default. I have never heard that it has to be
a stock aircraft or airport. No no no no... It is whatever you wish dear
boy!

Quilljar
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[Guest]

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Melissa,
While the advice in that link may be true, I have to say I have never yet
experienced any trouble from loading 3rd party aircraft, or making the
default flight anywhere I wished. However, I have not purchased any
expensive Jumbo add-ons or even downloaded any complex cockpits, being an
essentially GA man, so maybe that is where any problems may lie.

Cheers
Quilljar


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[Guest]

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Hi LD;

I just finished reading Beti's post about default flights. This is
interesting information and I never actually thought about it before. I
think I've been doing this without ever consciously realizing it. Although I
don't use a default flight per se, and instead use individually saved
flights, my "path" through the sim must have done this for me automatically
without my realizing it was necessary.
When the sim installs initially, the installation process takes you
automatically to the default Cessna at Seattle as part of the installation.
This was where I started my "change over process" in adding my saved flights
in other aircraft.
So I guess the bottom line on this would be that if someone follows the
normal installation path and allows the original default flight to load
normally during the installation, regardless of what you load after the
Cessna/Seattle scenario is up and running, you are in effect doing the right
thing as Beti suggests anyway. In my case, I simply bring up other scenarios
and save them individually without assigning a default flight. For others,
assigning another default flight from the Seattle scenario seems to be ok as
well.
What's puzzling me is that from what Beti says, the only way to go wrong is
to NOT allow the default Cessna to load; bypassing that process and going
right into your "changes" which to me would be an intercept of the normal
installation. I'm trying to remember from the install process exactly how
you could avoid the Cessna but I can't. I think you get the RUN option, but
I can't remember if that takes you directly to the Cessna or to the setup
screen. I think it's the setup screen. If it's possible to avoid the Cessna,
it would be there where people go wrong I guess.
Dudley



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> Hi Gary,
>
> On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 01:17:45 +1200, you wrote:
>
>> Would anyone here like to comment ?
>
> This is something I always refer to when people mention changing the
> default flight:
>
> http://forums.flightsim.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=24&topic_id=47&mesg_id=47&page=
>
> Or, if that wraps badly, try this:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/5k9gl
>
> - --
> Melissa
>
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[meh]

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My 2cents

For me on initial install I eventually go to the "Default flight" 2004 is
Cessna in KSEA. Once there I switch to my favorite plane (Baron) and adjust
a few other parameters etc. When I am done with the tweaking I exit FS.
Once the dust settles I launch FS and it will come up with the Cessna in
KSEA. (this is because in my FS9.cfg file I have this parameter
SHOW_OPENING_SCREEN=0).
Having just starting up at the "default" flight I go to Flight/load flight
and choose Previous Flight and check the box that says make this the default
flight.
From that point on when FS starts I am right where ever I left off last
time.........
The only exception to this is with a couple of the payware planes that I've
bought that require the default to have been the Cessena.


my 2 cents
meh

"Slap" <slap@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:s%Dne.1542453$6l.676954@pd7tw2no...
> Save a flight anywhere, anytime, anyplace (your favorite dirt field for
> example) and before saving it click 'make default flight'.
>
> Next time you start FS you will be in that field... or 20,000 feet in the
> air, or whatever you last saved.
>
> "Gary" <chairmanSPAM@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
> news:1f1u91994l1foso4geit0lqiah6hb0s878@4ax.com...
>> Greetings oh wise ones ...
>>
>> I have always had the understanding that I should fire up FS, load my
>> default flight which is the stock cessna at KSEA, then go on to load
>> whatever funky add-on aircraft I feel like flying.
>>
>> I read a snippet of a thread a couple of weeks ago that suggested this
>> is not the case - as long as my default flight is a stock aircraft at
>> a stock airport I don't actually have to load the flight, just the
>> fact that everything is standard is enough to hit all the right reset
>> buttons.
>>
>> Now, naturally, I can't find the snippet again. It was in a support
>> forum somewhere but that's ll I can remember so I can't follow it up
>> with the original poster.
>>
>> Would anyone here like to comment ?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Gary
>
>

 

[Guest]

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"Quilljar" <wykehill-flightsim@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Melissa,
> While the advice in that link may be true, I have to say I have never yet
> experienced any trouble from loading 3rd party aircraft, or making the
> default flight anywhere I wished. However, I have not purchased any
> expensive Jumbo add-ons or even downloaded any complex cockpits, being an
> essentially GA man, so maybe that is where any problems may lie.

Hi Quill;

I had an issue that took me almost a month to figure out involving default
flights.
What was happening was that I had defaulted a flight with an aircraft that
didn't have a flight director in it. Then when switching to another aircraft
with a FD, the FD wouldn't work. Of course at the time I didn't realize what
the issue was, so I was going nuts with the add on where the FD didn't
function trying to nail down why it wouldn't work.
Finally, and just by accident, I happened to pick another default airplane;
one having a FD. The add on with the FD immediately functioned correctly.
To this day I'm not absolutely certain how the default save interfaces with
aircraft having different equipment, or if my issue was simply related to an
avionics interface between default save and the add on switch process, but
I've solved all issues in the simulator by not using a default flight at
all, but rather setting up flights in specific airplanes at specific
locations and situations; then saving those flights each individually on the
save list, and I'm avoiding the default flight scenario altogether.
I've found that I have zero issues with diversified on board equipment by
using this method. Don't know if it's something everybody should be doing,
but it has worked for me perfectly since starting this process of saving
flights.
Dudley

 

[gary]

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Excellent ! I got the vague impression that was what the answers were
driving at, but it was all very, uhhhh, yeah

Thanks for the plain english translation

Gary


>> I have always had the understanding that I should fire up FS, load my
>> default flight which is the stock cessna at KSEA, then go on to load
>> whatever funky add-on aircraft I feel like flying.
>
>To summarize what people have been trying to say:
>
>No, you don't have to do that at all.
>
>Exception:
>
>If a particular aircraft has been giving you trouble, then sometimes the
>cure is to load it into the default flight and go from there.
>
>
>Dallas