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can you change the background in the free flight menu?
i mean the background of the aircraft.

since the default MS one isn't great and i would like to change it,is this possible?
i knew i saw the file somewhere but i was just wondering if FSX will allow it...

Look in the ....\\Uires\ folder. The 'aircraft_viewer_bkgrnd.bmp' appears to be the file used.

doesn't work,it just displays a purple background.
i was just wondering,it isn't a true 'need' but i just wanted something else.
but thanks for your help anyways.

I experimented a little bit..

So far I've found that image format can be 256 color (8 bit) .bmp. Will not show if it's in 24 bit format as the FSX screen capture is. (Edit-16bit-444 and 32bit-888 also work if you want to preserve detail)

I used the Dxtbmp utility to flip the image and then save as Extended Bmp>Extended 256 color. Make sure that Mip maps--'include

On the subject... How do you change aircraft from the Tike to something else?

On the subject... How do you change aircraft from the Tike to something else?

Create a flight and save it as a default flight..

and that will make the default aircraft that is there when you start fsx whatever you want?