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Q109857: Flight Simulator: Splash When Taxiing Around Meigs Field

Article: Q109857
Product(s): Microsoft Home Games
Version(s): MS-DOS:5.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 07-MAY-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Flight Simulator for MS-DOS, version 5.0 
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SUMMARY
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If you taxi around Meigs Field in Chicago and the aircraft travels outside the
taxiway, tarmac, or runway, you may get the message "Splash" and Flight
Simulator will reset the situation.

You can avoid this by clicking Crash Detection from the Sim menu and activating
the Ignore Crash option.

MORE INFORMATION
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Flight Simulator generates the "Splash" message when the aircraft touches
blue-colored pixels at ground level. Some of the pixels in the Meigs Field
bitmap are blue so you will get this message when taxiing over them unless
Ignore Crash is set.

Additional query words: 5.00 flightsim fltsim dos FS5 water landing off on turned

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbGamesSearch kbFlightSimSearch kbFlightSim500DOS kbSimSearch
Version           : MS-DOS:5.0
Issue type        : kbinfo

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