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Full disclosure: I am not a RL pilot, but do have plenty of hours as a passenger in many types of small to large planes and helicopters. Note that I am not a computer geek but more on the luddite end of the spectrum. I have a very high end system and have been an active simmer since FSX days. My indoor hobby is flight simming to learn about aviation and to fly low and slow to see the world and to fly around areas I have been lucky to visit on the ground. I pre ordered the Aviation edition and downloaded on the 19th. I have experienced most of the negative issues many have identified. I have patiently been exploring the complexities of MSFS 2024 and will need several more weeks of learning and experimenting to set up things the way that I will want them to be. I expected that would be the case. I have, during the last two days, spent some wonderful hours in the 172. Those experiences have made the journey so far worth the effort and filled me with excitement for the future. Thanks to all of those who have worked so hard to bring us and continue to develop MSFS 2024 and to those developing and modifying addons. Thanks to those positive members here who constructively share their knowledge and and advice to help others. Passions should be be enjoyed and shared.

I have been using it for years with P3D and MSFS to map most of my peripherals but also have Lorby's AAO for an x-Touch mini and stream Deck XL. The xl a recent purchase so still learning to program with it. Both FSUIPC 7 and AAO have been great assets for me.

Best wishes for the new career Mathijs. Enjoy!

Great photo!

Sad to see that the old comments on the sounds are still what get mentioned time and again. The sounds have been improved and this is a great one to fly. We all have our own likes and dislikes.

Noel, you have the perfect perspective for your loss. Cherish and celebrate all of the joys your shared love has given you both and so many others. Our thoughts remain with you. Rick

Noel, so good to hear that you are not alone. You are indeed blessed with a wonderful granddaughter. Rick

Ah! So it is not just me! It certainly makes for challenging landings.

Noel, take full advantage of the assistance from the hospice nurse and get some personal time if you can. Thoughts and prayers are with you.

Only half the statement, recommend that you modify it to read " we do try - and we do succeed".

The D key works for me.

I have been following this topic all along trying to figure out which way to go. Recently I have been a REX texture and ASN weather engine user and happy camper. Always ready to upgrade for performance, I was prepared to upgrade but needed other users input to push me in a direction. I did not see any screen shots or videos that were making me happy with the imagery and agreed with most comments that clouds and sky textures were not great from ASCA. But what the heck I bought AS16 and ASCA but didn't install right away. So two days ago I was sitting in my sun room drinking my morning coffee and looked up at the cloudy sky. All that I could see was a perfect screen shot of AS16 + ASCA textures that I have been encountering in this and other forums. I spent the rest of the day looking at the real sky here and then going back to forum screen shots. ASCA was indeed depicting real clouds and sky in my area as close to reality as one could hope for. AS16 and ASCA now installed and working perfectly. I am very pleased with what I see on my triple screen cockpit in all of my flights so far. It matches real life. Now I understand that the imagery on the forums can't give you a true perspective of how it will appear on your sim and that you should not be put off simply by those images from others. The screen shots and videos will continue to be a part of my evaluation in the future but only a part. I am sure that REX will also produce a great product(s) for us. AS and REX will each have strengths and weaknesses in the eyes of the individual users as we each have different needs and desires with our sims. I don't think that anyone will be totally unhappy with their choice whatever they decide.Thanks to both developers for enhancing our sim experiences.

Keep strong Phil! Speedy recovery. Rick

Jay, Thanks for your response. Though I haven't counted them I also have several versions on my pc. The file version does exist on my pc and I have attempted several repair installs of P3D. Should I delete the file and try a repair install of P3D again. I have placed the problem on the P3D forum but no response.

I am running the latest version of P3D on the most recent update of Windows 10. For the past few days whenever I hit the button to load a flight in P3D after a few seconds the screen comes up and tells me that P3D.exe has encountered a problem and will close. When I go to Windows event viewer it identifies that the offending module is gdiplus.dll version 10.0.10586.20. Has anyone any experience with this problem and what I may do to resolve it? Copy of detailed error message below. Prepar3D.exe 3.3.3.17556 5747897d gdiplus.dll 10.0.10586.20 565418df c0000005 0009659d fac 01d1d22754b55986 P:\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v3\Prepar3D.exe C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_microsoft.windows.gdiplus_6595b64144ccf1df_1.1.10586.20_none_22adb5eaa762c7fa\gdiplus.dll fedceacc-119d-4cb2-8414-12fa78621c89 I know that this dll is a graphics issue, but the computer and 980Ti work well outside of this P3D error. Thanks.