Quote from Bernardo email: Hello Mark, All of a sudden today my aircraft have dissapeared! The model doesn't show in FSX after it starts...Only the shadows are visible.
Did I misunderstand your email? Going by the question, I thought it was only the aircraft that were missing. I was still trying to figure out why, when you started FSX, all of your aircraft were invisible (or at least the VC was invisible) and yet you could see the aircraft shadows. But before I had figured it out,  I got your saying you had fixed it using the method you just said above.

The thing that had me puzzled, was why it was happening to ALL of your aircraft. Sorry about that.

Now. Going back to the first problem. I get a "blank screen". I'll use starting FSX directly from the Captain Sim 727-100 Cleared for takeoff (KSEA) flight):
I double click on the 727-100 Cleared for takeoff (KSEA).
FSX starts and I get the splash screen.
After a while I get the little white box showing that the flight is loading but I still have the FSX splash screen showing.
After the flight has loaded, I can hear the engines of the 727 running, but all I can see is my Windows Desktop.
Using ALT+TAB to switch between tasks that I have open in Windows and stopping on FSX does NOT bring the screen back. I still only hear the engines.
While Windows is "focused" on FSX, I press ALT+ENTER and suddenly the screen comes up and I am in the 727 VC with everything visible.

I have to press ALT+ENTER again to get FSX back into Windowed Mode. If you use full screen mode, you will be in Windowed mode and will need to press ALT+ENTER to return FSX to full screen mode again. I use windowed mode because I get better performance than I do in full screen mode.

That is the way it happens to me most of the time. It sometimes happens from when I start FSX normally and using Fly Now. So my main question here is this: Is what I described above, happening with FSX for you guys? Is that what this Topic is about?

Mark