Lately I've been having problems with atc, esp the takeoff and departure stages.I'm told to line up, then cleared for takeoff. When I hit the key to respond, it takes a full minute for my answer to be heard. from then on , anytime I hit either the 7 or 1 key , there's a long delay in atc acknowledging my answer.Because of this, I have to hold at the last commanded altitude, when I should have been cleared to much higher. Same with headings; seems like there's a backlog happening here.later in the flight RC will catch up.I have UT running, with traffic density ranging from 50 to 100%.Actually, i noticed the delayed response described above is not related to traffic.Is this something to do with RC, or is it a problem with cpu memory?Eytan OrnsteinSpecs;2.4MGZ P4GeForce 5700 LE 128MB cardIGB DDR80 GB hd

you say, lately....so it wasn't always like that?what has changed since the time it wasn't happening, to now, when it appears to happen?jd

Hi Eytan,that happened to me as well and as it turned out it was FS9 in death throes.A re-installation of FS9 cured the trouble.Hope you don't have to go through that too!Tony

Tony,I've suspected as much.I've been having ctd's frequently in the last two months with FS9. FS9 seems to have become extremely sensitive. If at the initial menus, I click OK too soon,(as in select aircraft or changing planes), CRASH!Or in any long flight which I leave on AP, often I return to my pc only to find FS9 has crashed.I have Free RAM XP PRO which tries to free as much memory as possible running in the background. I've noticed during running FS9 with RC, Active Sky with GE PRO, my memory is down to less than 100. I'm wondering if that's the problem.Eytan