When starting the Slingload Tutorial mission in FSX on Windows 8, the mission ends before it begins: as soon as I switch my view to cockpit view (which I always do in every mission -- I use either the virtual cockpit or 2-D cockpit at all times, since I consider the use of exterior views during a flight to be cheating), the airport terrain changes to all water and the chopper sinks at once! What's going on here???
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I've never attempted it.
See if this helps.

See if what helps -- using the exterior view, or auto-starting the engines before switching to the cockpit view?
Agent Orange wrote:
See if what helps -- using the exterior view, or auto-starting the engines before switching to the cockpit view?
I didn't watch it so I have no idea what you are saying and I don't "do" missions.
Did it help or not.

Haven't tried it yet -- right now I'm doing another mission, the FS2004 flight challenge "Flight of the Vin Fiz", which will take days to complete. When I do get back to the "Slingload Tutorial" mission, I'll try starting engines before switching views.
I know it's been almost 2 years, but I'll post this anyway in case someone else is having the same problem: To keep the terrain from changing to water in this mission, DO NOT cycle the views with the A or S keys, but jump DIRECTLY to virtual cockpit or 2-D cockpit using F9 or F10 respectively. This appears to be a bug which is set off by a specific key combination (cycling views a certain number of times before doing anything), and going directly to the desired view avoids it.
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