🚀 go-pugleaf

> >I don't seem to be able to permanently save my status on the
> >disk.  If I set myself up at, say, Santa Monica airport and use
> >the "save and name" option to save as "santa monica", I do
> >indeed see "santa monica" on the "restore" menu for the
> >duration of the session.  But the next time I boot, the saved
> >data is gone and does not appear on the menu.  Am I missing
> >some obvious procedure here?
> 
> The "Save and Name" option only saves the situation in RAM.  There is
> another option on the menu that "Save and Name" and "Restore" are on which
> saves all the situations on the "Restore" menu on a disk (you're expected to
> insert another disk -- they think in terms of SS disks).

This is only one of the many appalling ways in which MicroSoft murdered and
dismembered the user interface.  The flight simulation in Flight Simulator
is great, but just about everything else about it is awful.

> >By the way, I feel that Southern California geography got
> >slighted by Microsoft.  We're pretty flat, but not *that* flat!
> 
> We at John Fluke are right next to Boeing's Paine Field, which you can take
> off and land at in MFS.  They don't show Fluke on the map, but it's easy to
> figure it out.  It's great fun to try to land in my office area....

How about the East Coast?  When I take off from Logan, I can't find Boston!
No Orient Heights, no Beacon Hill, no Pru or Hancock, no MIT or Harvard...
Manhattan's OK, but I'd like something a little closer to home.