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Update: Microsoft Flight Simulator Zen Desk was actually pretty responsive and helpful. Don't hesitate to open a ticket. Things I changed: Google DNS, IPFlush, and "Run as Administrator" to start the program. Or maybe it's just that the servers drastically improved. Anyway everything is running pretty well right now.

Thanks for the responses. Yes, I did find that a mission worked better but I don't fly those too much. I suppose I could try career mode. I thought of trying a direct ethernet connection to my router. I'll see if that helps. I'm in a rural area. There probably aren't too many Starlink competitors however I do have a lot of trees so my speed is limited by obstructions. I'll try the vpn again. It didn't seem to help but I'll try it again. It sounds like I have some other issue. I tried everything on the Microsoft ticket. I bought Aviator Edition and the xbox app shows both editions. I wonder if there is something going on there.

I'm using Starlink over wifi and get about 100-150 down. Starlink has a lot of micro drop outs and some latency. This doesn't affect any other applications or streaming I use. I can get to the main menu in about 5 minutes however when trying to load a free flight default aircraft to a default airport it can take from 30 minutes to well over an hour. Once I'm at my home airport KDWH there is no scenery. I get numerous low bandwidth warnings. When I fly (default 152 for simplicity) the instruments do not fully load. I can see some scenery but many places are a blur. This is all with the default settings. I tried to change some settings like no ai traffic to lower the bandwidth demand. I rarely have a bandwidth warning on msfs 2020 but it does happen. But so far this is unplayable for me. I don't know if it's the server overload issues or that Starlink in my configuration will not be sufficient to run msfs 2024. Fortunately I am scheduled to have fiber hooked up in a week or so if all goes well. I opened a ticket and got a canned response on rebooting, logging in and out, update your computer but I've tried all of that. In the mean time if anyone has any suggestions I sure would appreciate hearing them. Thx and glad some of you are out flying instead of watching the spinner!

I can get to the main menu but selecting a default aircraft and airport in free flight never loads. I’ve watched that wheel spin for hours. Sure would like to know how people are getting it to work.

First Impressions? This thing doesn't work. I've spent hours watching spinning circles and queue/bandwidth/server errors. Now that I'm able to get to the main menu any attempts to fly are met with more bandwidth errors and spinning circles. I've yet to see a runway. Asobo are well aware of the numbers. This was some economic decision on server capacity expectations post launch or longer term. I do not accept their apology.