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Jun 17^th, 2012 at 10:23pm

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I went on Flight Simulator 2002 today and it said that it wouldn't load because I'm missing the default flight. Can someone please tell me where I can reload the default flights from my disks?

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Reply #1 - Jun 17^th, 2012 at 11:27pm

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I'm far too lazy to try to find my cds so let's try to fix this another way first.

Open Windows explorer and navigate to your FS2002 directory. There should be a folder named Flights and a bunch of subfolders. If you can't find the Flights directory you will have to re-create it from cd but I'm too lazy to try to find my cds right now.

If the Flights folder exists you probably have a corrupt FS2002.cfg file.

Go back to your FS2002 directory and make a copy of the FS2002.cfg file (just in case).

Now open the original FS2002.cfg file with notepad and scroll down until you find a line that starts with "SITUATION=". Delete that line, save and close the file and start FS2002. This should reset the default flight to "Meigs".

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Reply #2 - Jun 17^th, 2012 at 11:49pm

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Hi Jim,

Thanks. I was going through and deleting Microsoft created flights from the menu to create more computer space. That's why I think this happened. I hope your solution below works. I thought a simple cut and past of the flights would fix it all without having to narrow down the specific file.

Mike

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Reply #3 - Jun 18^th, 2012 at 2:58pm

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Here's a map of the files on cd. You can extract the .cab files with winzip or winrar.

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Jim

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Reply #4 - Jun 19^th, 2012 at 10:27pm

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This is the error I get:

Microsoft Flight Simulator cannot find the default flight (FLIGHTS/OTHER/FLTSIM.FLT).

This file must exist for Flight Simulator to start.

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Reply #5 - Jun 19^th, 2012 at 10:47pm