The Moose

The default 407 is indeed a waste of time to fly, but this https://simfocus.com/product/simfocus-bell-407-improvement-mod/ completely transforms it. Highly recommended.

Apple maps is my default for MSFS these days. I find it to be the most consistent when it comes to colour and has significantly better visuals than Bing or Google in a lot of the more remote areas. The pro license was worth the money to me for this alone.

Cant use it here at the moment, but as I'm in Bristol as well you probably knew that already!

There's a "draw FPS" option in the apps settings

Used the free version happily for many months and have now been using the paid version for 5 months. Find myself using Apple maps more and more, quite often a better alternative in many places in South America, Alaska, Africa etc, and it's a great alternatives even places Bing and Google cover well (US / EU etc) Free version or paid, this has been my favourite addon for the sim.

Experienced three good storms recently. One was a few weeks ago in Yellowstone National Park during a heli flight, which was quite atmospheric I'd also experienced two absolutely spectacular storms, but just spent 10 mins wracking my rapidly failing brain as to where they occurred when It finally hit me... they were in a different game😂 Way Of The Hunter. Holy hell, that game has the best storms ever in a piece of software!

Straight from the Dev where possible. Second choice is Just Flight as they are generally cheaper for UK residents than the non UK based companies. Orbx third choice. Never from the in game Marketplace for several reasons (encrypted files, no weapons on warbirds, long waits for updates to name a few)

Tools/Options/Additional options Check Enable auto-launch Add all the programs you want to start with the sim. (Obviously you have to launch the sim via Addon Linker for it to work) EDIT: Oops, saw your post and replied straight away.. didn't notice Bernard had already responded!

..alternatively, just use Addon Linker to do the job for you.

It's a "update" that removes the automation as that is now broken apparently. That's it.

That problem had/has nothing to do with Bijans 4 Seasons mod. It's his other mod (Project: Islands, Sunken boats..) that's the issue there.

Too late to help you as i see you've already bought it, but for any other UK based potential purchasers I suggest picking it up at Just Flight where it's only £16.99

I own both and prefer REX. The weekly texture sets make a huge difference. REX is also better on FPS, REX is still getting regular updates and improvements. Set it up and forget it. I was impressed with Bijans mod, I'm even more impressed with REX. Will be interesting to see if Bijan makes a comeback, I look forward to it if so, but for the time being I'm sticking with REX.

I'd give you some of mine if I could... tiz crazy out there 😄 (Chennai, India with GAIST and Seafront on 10%)