Simviation Forum - Wrong aircraft shows up in Lessons

Mar 21^st, 2010 at 1:25pm

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I have a Cessna 152 that comes up as the default aircraft on startup and it is the aircraft that Turns up whenever I go to flying lessons. How can I change it back to the Cessna 172SP"?

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Reply #1 - Mar 21^st, 2010 at 1:59pm

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Start a flight at the location you want to be as your start up with what ever aircraft you want for your startup, such as the 172. When you get it how you want the default flight to be, cold start, running, lights on or off, time of day, weather settings, what ever you choose, save the flight. Then go into select flight and tic the default flight box by that one you just saved. Voila, you have your setting.

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Reply #2 - Mar 21^st, 2010 at 2:33pm

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patchz wrote on Mar 21^st, 2010 at 1:59pm:

Start a flight at the location you want to be as your start up with what ever aircraft you want for your startup, such as the 172. When you get it how you want the default flight to be, cold start, running, lights on or off, time of day, weather settings, what ever you choose, save the flight. Then go into select flight and tic the default flight box by that one you just saved. Voila, you have your setting.

Why the extra step? Huh

You can tick the "make this the default flight" box when you save the flight initially.

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Reply #3 - Mar 21^st, 2010 at 9:25pm

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He's talking about the lessons, isn't he?

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Reply #4 - Mar 22^nd, 2010 at 1:52am

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That took care of the startup screen. The Cessna 172SP shows up as the default aircraft when I open FS. But I still wind up in the Cessna 152 when I start a flight lesson. Then the lesson freezes. This is a bad thing.

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Reply #5 - Mar 22^nd, 2010 at 8:27am

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Opa wrote on Mar 21^st, 2010 at 2:33pm:

patchz wrote on Mar 21^st, 2010 at 1:59pm:

Start a flight at the location you want to be as your start up with what ever aircraft you want for your startup, such as the 172. When you get it how you want the default flight to be, cold start, running, lights on or off, time of day, weather settings, what ever you choose, save the flight. Then go into select flight and tic the default flight box by that one you just saved. Voila, you have your setting.

Why the extra step? Huh

You can tick the "make this the default flight" box when you save the flight initially.

Because, without the extra step, it did not work for me Opa. I did not know if this was natural, or a problem with my particular setup. Just wanted to make sure for him.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #6 - Mar 22^nd, 2010 at 1:02pm

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When you select a saved flight, the airplane you were in when you saved the flight is what gets loaded.

This is how it works for the lessons too.

In your main FS9 folder is a folder named Lessons. It should contain several folders, as an example one named Student.

In that folder you should find flight files with the .flt extension, and the weather for those flights with the .wx extension. You might also find files with an .abl extension.

If you open a .flt file with Notepad you can scroll down till you find...

[Plane.0]
Aircraft=Cessna Skyhawk 172SP

This dictates what plane gets used for the lessons and the only way I know of to change it is to edit these files.

BTW, that line should match exactly the title= line from the aircraft.cfg

Hope this helps.

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