To start off with, I lost the rotating pic of the aircraft on the main screen - if I selected a new aircraft, it flashed up for a few moments and then the pic changed to all white again. Even after I stopped and restarted FSX, problem remained.

So after trying various things (like reverting files back to all default etc) that didn't do the trick, I restarted Windows.

That did it, problem solved ......  yeah, but wait a minute.

All the planes I selected had engines OFF. Tried all the obvious things to restart them but no luck until I found that for some reason everything was starting with EMPTY tanks.

I have no idea why it happened but it seems to have fixed itself again now. May have been because for a few starts, when I put all the files back to default, my starting aircraft (an add on) was not available. Unlike FS04, which tries to load the sim default, FSX just leaves the screen blank and lets you go to the aircraft selection menu.

Strewth...... what next   ???  Worth remembering because I bet a few people will be caught out by it in the future if the reason is what I've said above.

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The way I work Bill is I keep backups of all the original main folders (texture, sound, gauges, effects etc). I then add files to the sim as I want to (eg new effects go into the effects folder as usual) but in case a 'dirty' file gets in there, I have always got the originals to revert to with out having to get em off the CD/DVD. It also means, as here, you can find out very quickly if an error is happening because of something you've added.

Tell you what, it's a great help having separate folders in this version for add on aircraft (flyable and AI) because just by changing the names of 2 folders you can take them all out at the drop of a hat.

Also means that unlike FS9, which loaded up more and more slowly the more planes you added, if you want you can have separate folders for GA, military, choppers, heavies, vintage etc and only load in the folder you want. That could considerably speed loading up.