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Good to know. Thanks for following up! Hope that ends up sorting the issue.

Here's what the manual says: If I recall correctly, that's pretty much how it worked in the P3D version, but you might try reloading the aircraft or sim.

On the P3D version you could just click the screen and it would turn on. Doesn't MSFS have a flashlight or torch hotkey?

Use the EFB to change panel state. Under aircraft tab, I believe. At least it was in the P3D version.

Interesting. Hans responded to a different post saying that their CDN was AWS, so I'm surprised there are location-specific problems.

Curious if anyone in the USA is having download issues from the AS store, I saw a post on one of their forums saying that he had to VPN to Germany to get the download to start.

The MS Store install will allow you to set a custom install path. It still installs some files on your C drive, but the bulk will go where you tell it to. Problem is that I think the MS Store refund policy makes it a little more cumbersome should you not have luck going that route either.

Yeah, it seems that anything other than absolute sycophantry (is that a word?) is not allowed and anything other than saying it will be a day-one purchase will be downvoted to oblivion. I get it, it's their forum and they can moderate it how they please, but I just do not understand the poor fools who are jumping on the downvote train against anyone who brings up a very legitimate issue. It reminds me of how people were acting before MSFS itself released. It was going to be God's holy gift to all flight simmers and there would be no faults, only joy, happiness, and rejoicing.

I took it from KPHX to KPSP, and it didn't seem much has changed to me. I'm another one that really wanted to like it, and has bought it twice, like many others. I'll be interested to see how the MSFS release goes.

Got it, thanks. I guess I never spent enough time in it to get that far.

Did they add coupled VNAV as an option with this update or was that always there?

Definitely looks like a mesh problem to me, too, and I don't think any of those ORBX offerings affect mesh, but I could be mistaken. I don't have those issues at ABQ running a nearly identical stack + TS ABQ, but even before TS released their ABQ scenery, I flew out of there quite often as that's my hometown. Never saw those issues. Agree with @Biggles2010, try removing the ORBX stuff and see if it still happens, but I would suspect an issue with the underlying P3D default mesh, if you haven't added something like FreeMeshX at any point.

That's the one I was thinking of. Yikes, the CVR transcript is wild.

Wasn't there a rather infamous crash of a CRJ2 where the pilots in a ferry flight used VS to climb to FL410 (service ceiling) and in doing so got way behind the aircraft on energy, then had a double engine flameout and engine stall, and couldn't get them restarted?

We will storm Aerosoft HQ at the slightest triggering, and that includes not getting claustrophobic in the cockpit in VR!

I'm very much hoping that it's better than the P3D iteration.

Confirmed on forum by MK.

Depending on where in New Mexico, I'd expect nothing less than 20kt winds with 40 kt gusts this time of year.

Well, I saw at least one of those things coming.

A good question for all of us. Why invest in this platform if something as simple as being able to access the bloody thing is so precarious.

If you open the Microsoft Store and in the top right click the three dots, then click Downloads and Updates in the drop-down menu, then click Get Updates, you should be back in business. Report back if that doesn't work and we can troubleshoot further.

Update Gaming Services in MS Store. It was a bug that rolled out to users at different times. Updating that should sort you out.

I just had a major flashback to the X-Crafts ERJs for X-Plane. I had completely forgotten about that and all the other little easter eggs they dropped in.

You are absolutely correct. MS/Asobo keep focusing on scenery and eye candy updates, with no real fixes to things that affect core functionality, and then they somehow...somehow let in a bug that absolutely destroys a core function of the sim, and according them that code crept in from a future update. It's a FLIGHT simulator, and they broke the flight model, and then had the audacity and arrogance to refuse to hotfix it, and then tell their customers that they should just fix each cfg file themselves, but WAIT! THERE'S MORE! You can't do that with Premium Deluxe aircraft because they're encrypted. I'm glad I have P3D, XP, and DCS too, because I'm very quickly losing faith in MS and Asobo to actually produce a flight simulator.

As far as I can tell from following the thread in their forums, it looks like total radio silence so far. Shameful to not even acknowledge it in any official capacity, in my opinion.