Here, you can see that I am in the 'simple' refuelling mode. I will now select the 'Fly' button to take me to the refuelling screen. You will also notice that having started the sim with a default flight, I have 100% fuel currently loaded on the aircraft. You can see my route and you can see the expected load of passengers, cargo and also how much fuel has been left on the aircraft for me - 'Fuel(tanked): 803kgs'.

OK, now we've got that sorted you can look at your flight information if you wish, or if you forget where you are supposed to be flying :lol. Change the option to Automatic, SAVE the change and then close and restart the client. When you change the fusipc/simconnect/automatic option you MUST close the client and then restart it for the change to have any effect. This is handy if you fly both sims on FSAirlines. If you use FS2004 or FSX you can leave it in automatic and the client will look for simconnect first and if it can't find it, it will use fsuipc. FS2004 does not use simconnect, that is reserved for FSX so you need to change it to FSUIPC or Automatic.

OK, I am running FS2004 and the client option is selected for simmconnect. If it is there then there could be another problem, let's go look at the client options. OK, so what's going on here ? You can clearly see that my flight simulator is running so why is the client not recognising this? The most common problem is that the fsuipc.dll is not in your modules folder, so go take a look and make sure it is. Just a quick walkthrough for those that have difficulties understanding the refuelling or get a Flight Simulator not started warning.

Fsx passenger payload