What is your default flight?

***arrowmaker*** · April 25th, 2009, 08:30

I believe that one of the first things to be altered, after a fresh install of any version of flight simulator is the default flight. Whilst doing a reinstall, recently, I began to wonder what people have as their default FSX flight. I know that these flights tend to alter over time, especially after a new scenery package is added to the mix.

Personally, I'm currently flying Shockwave's P-40 out of Dillingham X (with megascenery Hawaii). What are you folks currently using, aircraft and scenery wise?

**Tako_Kichi** · April 25th, 2009, 08:41

For my default flight I use the stock Cessna out of my nearest city airport which I have reworked extensively so that it matches the real thing. I basically use it when I hit problems with engines dying on some aircraft due to fuel cock or tank issues after changing planes. I load the default flight, get the engine running and then switch to the aircraft I want to fly.

**cheezyflier** · April 25th, 2009, 11:20

right now it is the yellow kodiak flying out of seattle. it used to be the carenado 182 out of kilg.

**gera** · April 25th, 2009, 11:28

I have about 500!!! since I used them for testing my flights and scenery.....

***huub vink*** · April 25th, 2009, 11:46

My current default flight is the Classics Hangar FW190 A-2 from Valkenburg, Netherlands (EHVB), which is where I live.

Cheers,
Huub

***Thoe6969*** · April 25th, 2009, 12:15

Carenado's 150 out of a reworked Bremmerton here.

**CG_1976** · April 25th, 2009, 15:03

Piglets Tucano out of Socotra at Moori (OYSQ) for some pirate hunting. USCG piant by Tako_Kichi.

***jpmouse*** · April 25th, 2009, 16:23

I always load new aircraft into a default FS Cessna cold-n-dark situation at my home airport - KBLI - in WA. I then adjust views, Popup windows, fuel, payload, nav settings, etc. and save the situation as "KBLI - (aircraft). This enables me to go directly to that flight and know that it is a situation without problems. It also allows me to see, on the menu, all the arcraft that I have installed, as I have accumulated over 250 over the years. With that 'clean' flight, I can safely slew to any airport for my flight that day. This is also where I do all of my initial testing of aircraft to determine flight characteristics and practice various weather situationj

***SpaceWeevil*** · April 25th, 2009, 16:51

I don't have a default flight as such, but saved faves include:
* Flight Replicas J3, JF 152 and Piglet's Mooney Mite and AA-5 from Compton Abbas EGHA in Dorset
* A2A Spitfire 1/WOP2 Mustang/AFCorsair; Classic Hangars 190, RealFlight F6F, SU AT6 and the new Dave Garwood Hunter, all from from Duxford EGSU

***PRB*** · April 25th, 2009, 17:18

I haven't altered the default default flight since I ran into problems doing that once long ago. I think I deleted the plane that I had chosen as my default plane for the default flight. I forgot that it was being used as the defaault flight, and FS "freaked out". And at the time I think it wasn't clear to me what had gone wrong. FS just wasn't loading anymore. In any case, I quit messing around with the default flight from that point on. However, like SpaceWeevil, I have a lot of saved flights that accomplish the same purpose, and allow more flexibility.

***Marvin Carter*** · April 25th, 2009, 17:38

Corenado 152 out of O22, modified Columbia Ca. Great place to fly out of, bayarea west and Tahoe east!!!

Marvin Carter

***n4gix*** · April 25th, 2009, 17:44

A savy simmer will leave the "stock default flight" alone, doing no more than moving it to one's favorite home airport at most.

Many, many addons pay or free simply won't load and work properly otherwise.

The technical reason is that there's additional data saved with a "default flight" than there is a "regularlly saved flight." It's those additional bits of data that can make the difference between success and problems with some addons.

**Mâra Trilokadev** · April 25th, 2009, 18:20

A Scimitar out of the RN station at Culdrose in the vain hope I'll be able to survive a trap on Ark Royal.

**EMatheson** · April 25th, 2009, 18:41

DBD L-159B out of KHIF - with scads of environment addons so that the whole of Utah is as close to photo-real as it can get without actually being so...

**Piglet** · April 25th, 2009, 20:36

Whatever plane I'm working on, usually flying out of Edward's. I need that huge lake bed with my flying "skills"! All my flight titles have the word "Testing" somewhere in the title.

Trans, the Coast Guard should buy some of those Tucanos!