PMSystems, Flight Deck Technology & FS2004

[brianwilliamson]

I also have the same start-up problem. Pete, thank you so much, that is brilliant and something I had not even thought to look at !! There is always an answer somewhere, thank goodness.
Cheers..................Brian W.

[ralmav]

Pete,
thank you very much too!
This help me so much and as Brian said :"that is something I had not even thought to look at"!
Again we all can see how fantastic your programming work is ,without your WideFS and FSUIPC my whole sim wouldn´t be possible !!!
Best Regards
Ralf

[farrokh747]

Hi Peter - is there a way to set MSFS to launch directly ino a default flight? ie without the 'select a flight' menu, etc - I use RunReady on all PC's for the PM suite, but still have to manually select the first/startup flight -

I'm sure this must be someting simple that I obviously missed....

cheers,

Farrokh.

[pdpo]

Hi ,

I'm also Peter but not Dowson....

anyway what I wish to say is the following. Some time ago I had my sim setup
in such a way that when FS2004 was started I always started with the plane
at the place where I left of the previous time (no more menu at startup, immediately in the situation) The way how to get there. Well, in the settings you need to switch off 'show opening screen at startup' and you need to modify
the fs2004.cfg file and put in the startup situation 'previous flight' or something like that. I'll check tonight and update (mind the capital letters). The exact name of the situation you can find back when you try to save a flight, and its called something like Previous flight.
Then it started immediately there but I had one big drawback. When fs is then running I cannot add any scenery and I dont get anymore to the menu where I could add scenery!

Greetz Peter

[Bob Reed]

choosing the "End Flight" should take you back to the menu.

[farrokh747]

hi - thanks -

ok, so here's what i found out -

In the [STARTUP] section of the fs9.cfg file, change the value of the foll entry to 0

SHOW_OPENING_SCREEN=0

this will take you directlty to your saved default flight on launch

also, i discovered that the startup msfs 2004/ DC3 image is loaded from a bitmap file called that is in the folder named "Uires" in the main fs9 folder - I've modified this file using Photoshop and it works fine - (please keep a backup of your original!!) - remember that the pixel dimentions, color mode, and other image properties have to be absolutely the same, or you can expect major problems - attempt at your own risk!

some interesting tips here:

http://www.digital-flight.com/MSFS9_tips.htm

ciao,

FC

[farrokh747]

sorry - left out the filename:

dlgsplash.bmp

FC

[Trevor Hale]

Hi trevor,

My MCP also does not go dark when Batt switches off but If I toggle the Batt switch on/off then it does go dark. It's low on my "bug" list !

My Go-flight MCP Pro doesn't seem to go dark when the batts are off. Maybe when my CP Flight unit arrives this will sort my issue.

Best regards,

Trev