Berlopez wrote on Apr 6^th, 2010 at 4:11pm:

:(Surely I'm doing something wrong here). I loaded form my LOAD in my vista FSX installation Flight 727-100 Cleared for take off (KSEA). It loads in three D cockpit with no sounds, Had to load it twice to get the sounds to work  :-X

Hi Bernardo.

The 727-100 Cleared for take off (KSEA) file can be found in My Documents\Flight Simulator X Files (Documents\Flight Simulator X Files for Vista/Win7 users).

Try opening (right click then select open) the one in Documents\Flight Simulator X Files and NOT the one in FSX\Captain_Sim\727\flights. It should open with FSX automatically.

There are three files named 727-100 Cleared for takeoff (KSEA). The first is a .FLT, the second is a .FSSAVE and the third is .WX. Do the right click method on the 727-100 Cleared for take off (KSEA).FSSAVE. Most users have Hide extensions for known file types enabled. In fact, Windows does this automatically and that is why, so may only see three 727-100 Cleared for take off (KSEA). Because Windows lists same named files numerically then alphabetically, it will flow on to the file extension, the order should be .FLT, then .FSSAVE and then .WX. So it is the second one you do. Even if you have reverse listed it, it WILL always be the second one. i.e. WX, FSSAVE  then FLT.

Just as a side note. It is possible that the .FLT will also open FSX by default. I'm just not 100% sure because my .FLT files open in notepad by default and I can't remember if I changed it. If it needed to be changed I WOULD have changed it.

Hope this helps.

Mark