what happened to all the arrivals?

[flying-w 59]

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[bosmass 0]

ok, got it working (after reinstalling fsx) but I have one more "little" problem. When I click an airline the view is facing the aircraft from the front at an angle. I used to have it where the view was a locked spot with the view of the plane on the side. I guess I took that for granted because I haven't reinstalled fsx for 5 years. I have tried changing it with a joystick and saving the flight as default but it only saves the view for the selected airline. The next view is the same front facing one. Thankfully this is not a major problem but one that just bugs me.

[flying-w 59]

I'd take a guess that's something in the camera.cfg file. Look for the AI Camera section, which likely contains "HotKeySelect=5"

BTW you are not alone, I just had some kind of catastrophic failure on my FSX computer and it's looks like it's time to reach for the backups.

[bosmass 0]

It looks like when I click an airline it defaults to ai view mode and that is not the view I want. I want to have the locked spot view mode when I click on an airline. It's so strange that I can't figure this out. I remember it was so easy before. I noticed that with the new stb 3.2 there is no selection for camera views like the older versions. Was this taken out or do I have an incomplete install? do I also need airound to get this view. I had it installed before but didn't include it before reinstalling fsx, just wondering

[flying-w 59]

Are you referring to AIRound, only that has the concept of multiple camera views?

Without it, all STB can do is a HotKeySelect, that invokes one of the definitions in cameras.cfg i.e. a single camera view. I've no experience of it, but you can make adjustments to that file if you wish.

[Pooch 0]

For what it's worth:

I had almost the same problem - lots of AI on ground when starting FSX, "normal" amount of departures but almost non arrivals. I have all the WOAI plus many other flightplans installed but even at airports with heavy traffic (KJFK, EDDF, ecc.) max. 1 or 2 arrivals.

I was troubleshooting for about 2 weeks and finally found something interesting in post #7 of this thread http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22897. In fact some of the mentioned files (all image_globe*.bgl and bvcf.bgl) were missing in my scenery/world/scenery. I keep a "clean FSX install" on a separate disk and could recover these files and copy them in my scenery/world/scenery. - and, voilà, all my AI arrivals were back as I was used to before the problem started.

I am 100% sure that I never had deleted such files, they must have been deleted by an installation or de-installation of a program.

There is a parallel fact in bosmass' and my problem: we both had uninstalled UT2 - of course I do not know if this matters at all ...

I do not know if bosmass was missing the same files and he solved the problem by reinstalling FSX, so he obviously got any missing files back.

I wanted to share my experience with those that might run into the same problem: Check for the above mentioned files before you reinstall FSX ( which should always be the very last resource...).

Bests, Peter