I just have a few questions before I make my purchase..1-Usually when i'm flying a long haul flight I'll cancel my IFR flight with ATC and use speedx4 and when I'm about 400nm to 300nm from my arrival airport I'll request an IFR clearance from ATC.. I'd like to know if I can do the samething with RC 2-Do I always have to open RC b4 lauching fsx or I could launch fsx and listen to ATIS at my starting airport then create the flightplan via fs build and open(load) it in RC while fsx is already launched

no faster than 2x if your checkpoints are close together, don't even do 2x but you can tell rc to pause at a user specified distance from the destination, so you can sleep, not fly. 2) that's fine. as long as the plane is at the gate, at the departure airport according to the plan, and fs isn't paused, on the fly now screen, not on the select a flight screen, but ready to go - when you launch rc jd