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Yes, mistaken. These three are not the guides to software improvement:

Hardwarl or Narwhal?

If that's how you really feel about troubleshooting your computer, best to get help from an experienced pc tech, pay someone to do it.

This question should have been posted in the PC Hardware Help area. Have you updated your pc's chipset drivers and BIOS? That can have a direct impact on USB 2 devices working properly, especially when if they are plugged into USB 3 ports. On my rig, my Saitek X52 connects to a USB 2 port, along with the keyboard and mouse, not a USB 3.0 port. Sure, supposed to be backward compatible, but I keep my USB 3 ports free for external hard drives when I need to use them. And the first troubleshooting checklist item: Is it plugged in? Your LEDs blink, but are the connector, the pins, the socket OK, not bent, clean, lined up right, and connected properly?

"Still FSX"? No big bad "FREDs" to be found in FS2020 ... and I bet not for awhile. From wearethemighty.com: "The C-5 Galaxy, the Air Force's largest cargo mover has a nickname of its own, bestowed upon it by the men and women who maintain the USAF's fleet: FRED, or "F***ing Ridiculous Economic/Environmental Disaster."

Because making and distributing DVDs is a business expense, and the company makes less money, less profit compared to online download-based software. New business computers no longer have CD\DVD drives except as an option. Like floppy drives and Zip drives that also were once popular, optical drives are fading away too. I saw a survey report from a freshman college class last week - over half the students said they had no access to a DVD-drive enabled device, and couldn't use disc-based media. I bet most of them have newer model ultra-thin laptops.

Don't overlook the uncommon aircraft. In FSX I can fly Russian planes like the Tu-128, Yak-26, concept planes like the Boeing Blended Wing, imaginary birds like the "Mig-31" Firefox, and countless other military aircraft of all nations. Not so, not yet, in FS2020.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/celera-500l-plane/index.html

The Microsoft Flight Simulator X For Pilots book should be on the bookshelf for everyone who wants to move past the game-play level of flight sim, a great book no matter what simulator you fly. Otherwise, YouTube is your friend - lots of tutorials on Instrument Flying Rules and how instruments work.

Yesterday watched a Youtube reviewer flying in the new sim, you could see the micro stutters, the reviewer commented on the micro stutters ... on a hefty, powerful PC rig, too. Micro stutters still seem to be very common due to all the factors we know must be dealt with, for software like this. Someone like the OP who wants it to run maxed out without any human involvement is probably going to be disappointed.

The trollish OP obviously doesn't fly any military fighters, bombers, cargo transports, spy planes, none of which are available in the new sim ... not yet anyway.

Many thanks for the tip. I always wanted to fly to Tahiti!

Wise words from the Zip. I'm glad, too. There's an old saying that you can always identify the pioneers because they have arrows in their backs. I have to deal with a lot of complex software in my work, and I knew the new sim would not be "streamlined, optimized, and ready to go". If you really don't want the frustration, you wait at least until the first update, the first service pack (or "build" update as it's called nowadays). I'll wait until then, after the first wave of bug fixes and refinements, and in the meantime I can learn from the brave souls who want to be first ...

Whack-a-mole blocking seldom works for long on the Internet, as we know all too well.

This problem isn't directly related to FSX and probably should be in the PC SOFTWARE TECH forum area. Lots of posts and reports about Event 1534, the issue related to a Windows service that was "deprecated" during the too-often lousy "software as a service" WIndows 10 version updates. Looks like it requires a registry edit to clear. Here's one example of the repair procedure that's said to work - see link below. https://audministrator.wordpress.com/2018/12/27/windows-10-user-profile-service-event-id-1534-error/

"This attachment is not available. It may have been removed or the person who shared it may not have permission to share it to this location. Error code: 2C171/1"

Not so. Watch some of the free JustPlanes 747 videos on YouTube where there's often shots of the instruments during critical times in flight. And, yes, you'll see climbs around 2400 fpm again and again. AirClips is another good YouTube channel to see REAL flight operations.

"Bigger is better" ain't necessarily so ... especially when it comes to volunteer-based organizations. I enjoy the two "small VA's" where I'm flying, and intend to continue with them ... because it's still fun. Please. Let's not exaggerate, shall we?

The warning messages were related to the web site's security certificate, not any virus-infected files or untoward Skype installer. From Pete, the Simviation admin: "Some of you will see a warning when visiting the site. This is due to some moron at our DNS hosting company who changed a setting without knowledge nor was it requested. Complaint made and being fixed now. Rest assured there is zero risk in using Simviation."

Remember when we could actually fly to interesting destinations, before borders closed and arriving travelers faced mandatory quarantines? This reminds me of the tourist trains ... riding for the sake of riding ... for nostalgia's sake. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/eva-air-hello-kitty-fathers-day-flight/index.html "Taiwan continues to cater to the needs of its travel-starved population by offering yet another aviation experience that doesn't actually take you anywhere. "The [EVA Air] trip will take around three hours, with the flight taking off from Taipei Taoyuan Airport, then circling the skies before returning to the same airport." P.S. Taiwan's borders are still closed to foreign visitors.

I recently did a test flight of Camil Valiquette's (CamSim) FSX FedEx Boeing 787-9 Cargo AGS V6, one of his long series of 787 and other airliners. The 2D wide panel is appreciated, the range is spot-on, and the only tweak I've applied was to reduce some flight tuning numbers from the default 1.0 value to 0.7 for elevator_effectiveness, 0.6 for ailerons and rudders. And I'm pleased with the results. But, at high altitude cruise the N1 value is in the low 70s, the N2 in low 80s. I realize the Dreamliner's GEx engines are the latest-greatest, but surely that's not realistic. Anything to be done with its aircraft.cfg or would it require a deep dive with AirWrench or other editor into the .air file?

A no-cost source of IFR charts, including STARS, is flightaware.com. Browse by airport and you'll see both an IFR and VFR tab where many charts in pdf format can be downloaded. Not completely comprehensive or always current, but it's free. Many, if not most, major US airport charts can be found there. Charts for airports outside the USA can often be found via Internet searches, often at regional VATSIM web sites and other free sources. I'll leave an explanation of how to include STARS in your flight plan to the better, more eloquent sim pilots. On my rig, I use payware Flightsim Commander, ... now don't laugh - the old but easy-to-use Abacus CoPilot Pro flight planner, and the FSX built-in flight planner too, the FSX built-in Garmin GPS units and, less often, the free Honeywell FMC on some aircraft. Not going for as-real-as-it-gets here by any means, just going for the fun, and those flight planning tools work for me.

I admire the great faith, but Mark's post is spot on: "No one even knows ..." Things don't always turn out as we hope they would, i.e. Microsoft Flight, Microsoft Train Simulator 2, etc. For now, we can only hope ... but being "sure" is a stretch.

And no F/A-18, no military planes. :(

I'm proud to fly with MAX Freight virtual airline ... but, please, not these flights. :p https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/aviation-tycoon-gets-boost-pandemic-040001603.html A Booming Airline Business: Shipping Pigs to China in 747 Jumbo Jets The coronavirus has wreaked havoc on commercial aviation, but Alexey Isaykin’s cargo carrier has been fully loaded. Volga-Dnepr Group has flown more than 3,000 breeding pigs to China from France this year. The animals -- transported 6,450 miles (10,400 kilometers) in wooden crates in the hold of a Boeing 747 cargo plane -- are being used to restore local livestock levels to help mitigate shortages in the world’s largest pork market after an outbreak of African swine fever decimated China’s hog herds. Measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus amplified those swine shortages and accelerated attempts to boost the population of domestic herds. China imported a total 254,533 tons of pork in the first four months of the year from the U.S., which overtook Europe to become China’s largest pork supplier. That’s already more than the 245,000 tons China bought for the whole of 2019. The cargo is a sign of the shifting demand that Isaykin’s company -- known for transporting everything from satellites to emergency bridges -- is experiencing as the pandemic reshapes his industry. The company is also shipping masks, hazmat suits, medical equipment and even street-disinfecting vehicles to countries like Russia, France and Germany as they battle to contain the virus. Volga-Dnepr’s sales rose 32% to $630 million this year through April compared with the same period in 2019. “Global aviation is going through its most challenging time ever, but for cargo carriers like us it’s a chance,” Isaykin said in a Zoom interview from Moscow. “Previously, more than half of all aviation cargoes were carried in the luggage compartments of passenger planes. With this supply vanishing from the market, demand for cargo airlines surged and prices more than doubled.” While demand for air freight dropped 28% in April compared with a year earlier, capacity fell by 42%, according to the International Air Transport Association. Isaykin’s stake in closely held Volga-Dnepr is estimated to be worth around $700 million, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The Russian company’s revenue may increase by a third this year to $2 billion, Isaykin predicts. Expanding Geography The overall rise in sales has come even as some revenue streams shrink. Shipments for the aerospace industry have fallen by about a third compared with last year, Isaykin said. Medical goods now account for more than half of global air freight, with e-commerce cargo for firms like Amazon.com Inc. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. another growing category. Volga-Dnepr’s footprint is also shifting, Isaykin said. “The geography of our shipments is expanding, following the spread of coronavirus,” Isaykin said. “We just started shipping Chinese medical goods to Africa and are getting first inquiries from Latin America. I think India will be next.” Some of this demand may prove to be short-lived. Freight rates have started to decline, and the market for shipping health-related cargo may drop in the second half of the year, Isaykin said. Still, he expects volumes and prices to stay above the “pre-virus” level with fewer passenger planes expected to be flying. Some new business may herald lasting changes to the world economy. While his carrier is shipping pigs to China, it’s also ferrying assets the other way. The company recently transported a production line for making masks to Russia’s Tatarstan region from China. “An interesting trend is gaining traction now -- we call it the medieval period of the 21st century -- when strategically important production facilities are being relocated to reduce dependence on China,” Isaykin said. “I am expecting this trend to accelerate toward year-end.”