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I edited my FS9 .cfg tonight and now everytime I launch FS9 I start with the first plane I switched to fly (Cliff Owens Spitfire). Even tho I  am able to switch to another plane and fly, When I retart the sim, the same spitfire starts, even tho the sim begins with the Cessna.  What do I do? Already did a system restore back 2 days, but that didnt help.

If I delete my FS9.cfg, will it regenerate and fix my stoopid problem? I'm kicking myself for not backing up my FS9.cfg.

Thanks for any help.

Mine always starts with the Cessna at Sea-Tac. no matter how much I wish it were different.

You may have to re-install the whole shebang to right your problem...

Sounds like you saved a flight with the Spit and tagged it as your default flight.

To revert to the original default flight open the FS9.cfg file and find the line:

[USERINTERFACE]
SITUATION=C:\Documents and Settings\dave\My Documents\Flight Simulator Files\3cu
Delete the path entry so it reads:
SITUATION=

You should now start with the Cessna at KSEA.

When I retart the sim, the same spitfire starts, even tho the sim begins with the Cessna

Or are you saying the cessna shows in the preview, but when you ckick 'fly now' the Spit shows up at the airport?

As always, back up any file before editing.

Homebrewer,

..no matter how much I wish it were different...

Create a flight that you want at startup, click 'fly now' and then save it as the default flight--there is a 'make this the default flight ' checkbox at the bottom of the Save screen. You can make other changes to the flight, like engines off, etc. before saving.

Or-

If you've already saved some flights, select a flight you want at startup and there is a 'make this the default flight ' checkbox at the bottom of the Select Flight screen.

Dave

Saving flights and making the 'create a flight' default is always a good thing when you are going in for repeated practice of say...circuit/pattern practice etc..

You can do a 'save flight' for each of the landing pattern legs so that you can restart from there in the air at the exact altitude, airspeed, heading, etc. that you Flights/Save Flight at.

If I delete my FS9.cfg, will it regenerate and fix my stoopid problem?

Yes, if you delete your .cfg FS will create a new one the next time you start the sim. This, of course, will be default so any tweaking you did for the scenery (etc.) will need to be done again.