Initial aircraft position issue: FSP won't start flight

[JNoble]

I looked in the forums to see if anyone else has had this issue...
I have third party airport scenery that includes AFCAD files. If I begin a flight anywhere at the airport except one particular ramp location,
FSP allows me to load the aircraft but it will not allow the flight to start unless I taxi (or slew) to the one particular parking spot it wants. If I
press the ATC key all I can do turn on/off progressive taxi. Once my aircraft is at the designated location, I can call Departure Control and
start the flight. I suspect the issue is probably not with FSP, but I don't know how to fix or work around it. Should FSP work with any gate
or ramp parking spot, including those made with AFCAD? How does it determine if the aircraft is in the "right" place to begin a flight?

[samiranks]

what airport is this happening at? did you try other airports. If its one location try using default afcad and see what happens "of course
back up your 3rd party afcad file" also try an airport where you dont use 3rd party addon and see what happens

[JNoble]

Stupid me, I didn't think to try any other airports--I always start my flights at my "home" airport. (And the only way to get my plane
back "home" is to fly it there-just like real GA pilots!) I did some expirementing and here's what I discovered:

It doesn't seem to matter if the airport has an AFCAD file or not. I looked in the scenery directories to make sure. Of the 6 airports I tried,
this error occurs only at my home airport. At other airports with known AFCAD add-on files, everything went fine. I discovered what the
error is, though. As long as the aircraft is parked at a gate or ramp parking, it's ok. If my aircraft is outside the bounds of a gate or parking
spot then FS insists that I move to one particular parking spot before I can begin the flight. Just for fun, I used AFCAD to create a new
gate far away from everything else and parked my plane there, then started FSP. Everything went fine. So I guess the solution is to make
sure the aircraft is parked within the bounds of a gate or ramp parking area.

samiranks, thanks for your help and suggestion!