mmm that's not what I was typing, I said see he was having the same issue, as us all; had to do the FMB twist.. Reading comprehension, maybe you need understanding comprehension. He fixed it by the way we had been talking about... So what was wrong with my post?

Oh yea you were trying to say, I didn't read what he wrote, but obviously you didn't read what I wrote, or you don't understand English, one or the other?

I think the only reason some people really have this issue (and do not mix it up with their own human error) is a bug in loadouts saving. Loadouts are saved in the user.ini file in Docs/1C folder. Section for each aircraft looks like this:
1st part is convergence settings
2nd part is default weapons loadouts
3rd part is my custom weapons loadout named AM1.
EDIT:
4th part is the aircraft loadouts names (selected on the page where fuel is set) and corresponding Weapons loadouts (selected on weapons page).

Just check that you do not have any inconsistency or strange records for any plane. E.g. if I name a custom loadout using localized Russian characters I can get 2 sections for default settings one of which is named in Russian which is wrong. Also I noticed ammo numbers not separated by spaces, etc and corrected them all.

You can delete the file and let the game create a new one and then edit one British plane and copy-past to other British planes, etc.

To be on a safe side you can set your default loadout the same as your preferred custom loadout.

Check that all names in the 4th part are correct.

Loadout changes may not influence SP missions. Also when you edit loadouts via GUI you have to hit Save (or save as, can't remember now) in both screens: weapons settings and aircraft settings. Otherwise something may not save. If Save does not work, try save as. Use international characters only for naming. If you save everything correctly and keep your settings file clean everything works.

Ataros,
That makes the most sense Ive seen in this post yet and I strongley believe your highly likely to be correct! - especially if people have been fiddling in that file themselves!

In my experice it is only nessicary that you hit save under the guns page, Ive never saved under weapon sets.

S!

EDIT:

2:55 - use that save!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riJXEF7kerE&feature=plcp

When I opened it for the 1st time it looked messed up already because I created many profiles via GUI and used local characters for naming. At least this happened in one of early versions. Maybe this bug appeared during localization or the game just can not handle local characters.

However in many cases when people complain in TS that their guns do not fire they just assume that they have to see a tracer coming from every gun and separate splashes on the water when a group of 3-4 guns creates one bigger splash because guns are located very close together. (And are probably synchronized somehow between wings?) Some test loadouts which they did not save or loaded correctly.

Editing the file should help to set default loadouts to desired custom version and avoid mistakes.


EDIT: I edited the above post to include 4th part of settings. Check that all names in it are correct.

Exactly!

I did a new install and the only way to get loadouts to work is through the FMB.Also as the post stated it may only be a problem with the Brit.side so if you only play the blue side your not having this problem. Saved everything and used plain english but loadouts only work through the FMB.
I am trying to find that "user ini." file in Documents- 1C Soft Club-COD and there is no folder there named "user ini." the only one with user is 'conf user" and there are no loadouts in that file. Hope someone has a fix for this as it's a pain to have to use the FMB all the time, don't think the game was meant to be played that way. Thanks for all your input.

I too did a new instal and still the same problem, loadouts only work through FMB.

I did not fiddle with any files directly. Only changed them in -options-plane-loadouts-save, and that's when I think the problem started.

1) I would recommend you disable Steam cloud. Then you will have direct control of you user.ini file inside the 1C Softclub folder. If you don't have a user.ini file or it's empty inside it is because of Steam cloud. Disable it.

2) Your custom loadouts will not work in singleplayer, it's been a bug since release. Configure your ammo belt in the Options > Plane screen and use Save As. Be sure to hit OK and not Back after saving. Now you can either join a multiplayer server to test or open a single player mission in the FMB, select your loadout, and play through FMB.

When you do clean install it does not delete your Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover folder unless you delete it manually. Then clean install does not overwrite Steam cloud files.

The user.ini file is located in this directory Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover (last file in my list).

Disabled Steam Cloud and now have the User ini folder,the only thing is that in doing so I had to reassign all my joystick and keyboard settings from the default ones,a pain but not the end of the world.
I understand how to change loadouts for single missions via the FMB but how would one do it for campaigns such as The Enlightened Flourist Campaigne or any others as the FMB only seems to show single missions.
It is hard for me to understand that a game that has been on the market for this long and has had numerous patches not to mention the last one that is supposed to be the fix all has not addressed this issue.