The CTD appears to be a curse of FS2004! Holger Sandman has done a lot of great work around the Castlegar, BC and Sion, Switzerland areas to resolve some of these issues related to the bgl files. But I was still having trouble flying into Castlegar and getting a CTD, so did a bit of further investigation because I suspected the problem was now related to ATC. If you are on ATC leaving an airport, and if following take-off you do not initiate the command

I've had a couple of CTDs' when flying over Switzerland and I was blaming it on the FSGenesis mesh but last night I was flying due east from Bergen in Norway (not covered by FSGenesis) and about 60 miles out I had a CTD. Tried again and same thing happened. Not good, eh? I was using ATC at the time.Alan

A perminant fix for ALL CTD's related to this issue has been created... the problem relates to 3rd party mesh or landclass and a problem with the way certain airports are rendered. The fix in the thread below addresses a texture issue which cures the problem until Microsoft can issue a pacth - hopefully. http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...&mesg_id=164441I have used it, and vouch for it working! VERY easy to do, as well. -Greg

Computers sometimes are mysterious things. I have done a variety of tests, which have produced inconclusive results, other than it is prudent to execute the