WestWind Airlines

OK,paint me purple but how do you save and load a RC flight in FSX.I have done what the manual says but ill be darned if i can find the saved flight later on.its in my FSX load menu but i cant get it in my RC .Any ideas what im doing wrong

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Monster Driver
P255 charter

Scott Jones:

OK,paint me purple but how do you save and load a RC flight in FSX.I have done what the manual says but ill be darned if i can find the saved flight later on.its in my FSX load menu but i cant get it in my RC .Any ideas what im doing wrong

I have not done it but if I understand the documentation correctly there is a button at the top right of the RC screen where you go to load saved flights.

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WWA1702 Senior Command Captain +3
RWP SEL Instrument Rating (almost)
WW Test Pilot
Monster Driver

You may find your answer here:

http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=135&topic_id=25654&mesg_id=25654&listing_type=search

This is the Radar Contact Forum at AVSIM.COM.  I haven't save a RC flight in FSX. According to this thread, you may need to point RC to a specific location. If this doesn't answer your question, ask on that forum.  JD is great about getting back with an answer, as you will see when you look through the forum. I found this thread by doing an advanced search of the RC forum using keywords "loading saved flight".  Hope this helps!

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Bob S.
Senior Command Captain
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Thnx guys.Yes Mike there is a button but when i click it there is no saved flights there.I will check out the forums and see what i come up with,Thnx for replys

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Monster Driver
P255 charter

Scott, you also have to tell it where these saved flights live. You do that by clicking on FLT/WX Path on the RC screen prior to saving the flight.

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WWA1702 Senior Command Captain +3
RWP SEL Instrument Rating (almost)
WW Test Pilot
Monster Driver

Sorry for posting my question twice on the same thread, but no one responded to me before.

Does anyone know if FDSFX works with FSX?  I want to have some confirmation before I tamper with the program files (which I hate to do! )

Also, does anyone know how to save .cfg files in vista.  Everytime I try to edit and save a file in my program files foler, Vista does not allow it.

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Justin L
WWA2153
CAT III
KBOS - AHM

Mike Gibbs:

Scott, you also have to tell it where these saved flights live. You do that by clicking on FLT/WX Path on the RC screen prior to saving the flight.

Ya thats what the forum hread told me as well.I picked the place to save,i can now find the file but its not loading them.It starts to then stops.Still playing around with it

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Monster Driver
P255 charter

Justin:

Sorry for posting my question twice on the same thread, but no one responded to me before.

Does anyone know if FDSFX works with FSX?  I want to have some confirmation before I tamper with the program files (which I hate to do! )

Also, does anyone know how to save .cfg files in vista.  Everytime I try to edit and save a file in my program files foler, Vista does not allow it.

I didn't respond for two reasons:

1.  I don't know what FDSFX is.

2. I don't have Vista.  From bits of information I have seen about Vista, my guess is that you have to logged on as an administrator to save a .cfg file. .cfg files are considered to be system files, therefore only authorized persons (administrator) are allowed to mess with them.

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Bob S.
Senior Command Captain
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Scott Jones:

Thnx guys.Yes Mike there is a button but when i click it there is no saved flights there.I will check out the forums and see what i come up with,Thnx for replys

I just made a flight with FSX and saved it with RC during the flight. Here is what I had to do to resume at the point in the flight where I saved it:

1. Make sure you tell RC where the FSX saved flight files are located:  \My Documents\Flight Simulator X Files

2. To save the flight, press CTRL-SHIFT-;  Within a few seconds you should see the file name appear briefly in the Adv Display Window (Same window as the RC Commands)  Now, just to be sure it saved to the correct location, use the windows explorer to go to the My Documents\Flight Simulator X folder and look for the file.  It will have the extension .RCD  If it is not there, then you may have to change your keyboard key combination. The default worked for me.

3. To reload the flight, you will need to either start FSX fresh, or if already running, selet END FLIGHT.

4. Start RC and click the Load Previously Saved Flight button. The progress bar will fill from left to right, but you will not get any indication that the flight has loaded.

5. Go back to FSX and click on the LOAD button, then select the saved RC flight. That flight will now resume and within a few seconds the Adv Display window will open with the message "Radar Contact Ready", then the RC commands will appear. From there on it is just the way it was when you saved the flight.

This procedure is different that for FS9, and I hadn't saved any flights in FSX, so I had to play around a bit to figure it out.

 

 

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Bob S.
Senior Command Captain
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Thnx Bob.I tried doing what you said.My saved files are in the location they are suppose to be but for some reason they wont load.I get 1 blue bar and then nothing.Im gonna try to reinstall RC and see if that works

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Monster Driver
P255 charter

Ok,i think i figured it out.Reinstall didnt help but like i said when i load a saved flight from RC i get one bar and it stops.After a cou-ple minutes i get a message saying it cant load flight such and such.If i go back into FSX though the flight is there where i stopped and all is ok.kinda wierd and i dont think its suppose to work like this but it does so i guess it is what it is. 

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Monster Driver
P255 charter

Scott Jones:

I get 1 blue bar and then nothing.Im gonna try to reinstall RC and see if that works

That's what I got if I loaded the flight into FSX first. But, with FSX running, when I load RC first, the progress bar goes all the way (except for One last segment), then I go to FSX and load the flight. I think what happens if you load FSX first, when RC tries to load, it fails because some of the files it is looking for have already been load into FSX.  Just a guess! I need to spend some more time in the RC forum.  I never used that feature in FSX because I just don't fly FSX very much.

EDIT:  Now that I think about it, I did save and reload a flight when the FSX version of RC first came out. It worked just like it does in FS9, but then FSX-SP1 was introduced. That's when all of the troubles began. All of the programs that linked with FSX could not handle SP1. I had to wait for those other programs to be upgraded.

 

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Bob S.
Senior Command Captain
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