After the last updateI've got to wait for a bit less than half an hour before the flight starts;

In the beginning everything starts normally, than the sim starts checking for updates, a little circle circles as a good circle should, but not for long: it stops and nothing changes for some 15-20 minutes after which the loading process continues normally. 

The times are identical with Community folder emptied or loaded. (I use the linker app)

Any ideas if there's anything else I should check/ change?

Don't know where you're located, but try changing your server.

Last time I had this (it was a good while ago) it was something in my community folder.  (even with the addon linker, some files are actually put in there hard fashion by some mods such as the shipping traffic).

Just temporarily rename your community folder to community.bak, and see if it goes through then.  If it does, that will prove it one way or the other. 

Then you will need to trace the offending mod, which can be a bit of a pain unfortunately.  I used the 'divide in half' technique to speed up tracing it when I had it.

Edited May 15, 20215 yr by bobcat999

Yes, shipping traffic was installed in community.. wasnt aware of that...

Thanks for the suggestions, will try them!

I think there is a file you can delete which makes the sim update itself and apparently solve the problem.  You will need to Google to find out which one this is is as I can't remember.