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This is a terrain LOD issue caused by moving the drone far enough away from the aircraft to make the terrain re-load and crash the aircraft. The only workaround for this is to turn off crash detection before using the drone.

An incorrect ATC designator cannot possibly cause a CTD - what this indicates is a corrupted livery or a corrupted livery and model. I would recommend removing all your AI ERJ aircraft and re-downloading them from scratch. If it's not the ERJ's, it's another AI aircraft's livery/model issue - step and repeat as above.

Have you verified and repaired your FSX Steam installation using the Steam app? To verify your game files please do the following: 1. Load the Steam platform and log into your account 2. Click the Library tab in the menu at the top of the screen 3. Click the List View from the view options on the top right of the screen 4. Right click on Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition to bring up a popup menu 5. Click on Properties from the popup menu to bring up another popup box 6. Click on Local files from the popup box menu 7. Click on Verify integrity of game cache from the Local file options 8. Wait for the progress bar to finish verifying your files. Additional files may download 9. Restart Steam 10. Restart Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition

There's an MSFS mission tutorial in 7 installments here: https://flightsim.to/file/9805/mission-tutorial and quite a few FSX missions converted for MSFS here: https://flightsim.to/discover/missions?s=mission&category=0&sorting=0&page=1&filter=

How can ISP speed be Microsoft's problem? I can't get an internet connection through Microsoft here in the UK because they're not internet service providers here, or anywhere else that I'm aware of. If you want faster internet, you pay your money and take your choice of what's available in your area - Microsoft have no control over that.

MSFS2020 is an Xbox Studios game title, so it's funded by Microsoft and it's produced by Asobo Studios in partnership with Xbox Studios. The Windows version is a Windows 10/11 Application (App) and is emphatically NOT a Windows Program in ANY shape or form. Like it or not, it's the future.

Since MSFS2020 is an Xbox title, you can set it to run offline from the Xbox App on your PC:

Mine kept looping on the DC3 files - I quit the sim, deleted my Temp files, rebooted the sim and they finally downloaded. Now downloading the World Updates in Content Manager and Oh Boy! This must be the most thorough update yet - a very, VERY impressive Release Notes list this time!

The Working Title CJ4 User Guide (available here) gives this information: DISCONTINUITY ▯▯▯▯▯ = Discontinuity. A discontinuity is a break in the flight plan causing separation such as from an approach or arrival. Normally, a discontinuity can be replaced or deleted however, a discontinuity cannot be deleted or replaced: After a vector (VECT) - you must drop the waypoint on the (VECT) or delete it. At the end of an airway when the next waypoint is not on that airway. Before a leg that does not have a defined starting point such as a DME-arc.

Further to Bud's great advice, there's a series of 9 tutorial videos for the A310 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka-S-3wBRBo&list=PLHHNa7e7hf9NWlA69jXQ-xzU2IuawCdd7

Has your antivirus program quarantined them?

PAE could be for KPAE - Paine (or Snohomish County) airport, SEA could be for Seattle airport.

Thank you guys, the Aurora Borealis add-on is the best I've seen in a sim (and I've seen the real thing in Norway) but the Corvalis needs some TLC...

Aurora Borealis by South Oak Co, featuring the Cessna TTx Corvalis by Sim Federation:

I've just had this too! I fixed it by following these instructions on the Zendesk FAQ's pages: UNINSTALL AND REINSTALL GAMING SERVICES VIA POWERSHELL Reinstall the Gaming Services app on your Windows 10/11 device: Select the Search icon on the taskbar, type powershell, right-click on Windows PowerShell, and then select Run as administrator. In Windows PowerShell, type the following command and press Enter: get-appxpackage Microsoft.GamingServices | remove-AppxPackage -allusers In the same window, type the following command and press Enter: start ms-windows-store://pdp/?productid=9MWPM2CQNLHN Install the app on that page and select Yes when you receive the User Account Control (UAC) prompt. Restart your device and try to install the game again.

Ctrl+E doesn't work on all MSFS aircraft, especially the airliners which have more realistic startup procedures. You can find several "How to operate..." guides here: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/c/msfs/official-tips-troubleshooting/395 The zoom views are now Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+0 instead of Shift+1 etc. You can download the keyboard commands guide here: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/reference-keyboard-shortcuts-guide/167151 You'll need to calibrate your Hotas X for MSFS, there's a very good guide here: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/how-to-calibrate-your-joystick-yoke/129335

Press keyboard F11, or click on the F11 - Save button on the bottom left of your screen - you might have to scroll down to see it.

+1 - I have a 65mbps service and I've only had an "offline mode" error 5 or 6 times in 3 years - I think it was because the bandwidth went below 30mbps. Re-booting the router fixed the issue every time. As a matter of interest, I think the MSFS offline scenery looks like the Orbx FSX scenery, it's pretty good - but not a patch on the online photoscenery we're taking for granted now.

I have an Xbox account, all it needs is an email address and password. No personal details at all. You guys know more about me than Xbox does, here's my Xbox account profile:

MSFS ATC will calculate your descent rate based on your climb rate. I found that 2000fpm was normal for the TBM in climb and descent.

I think this FSX Screenshots thread has somehow got into the MSFS2020 Screenshots forum - I'm sure it's purely accidental and absolutely not the fault of the noble and expert airman in question...

Where this happens, in real life you would be vectored by ATC to the first point of the approach but MSFS can't do this and so it *should* insert a 'MANSEQ' (manual sequence) waypoint instead. It can also happen in SID's, where you would be vectored by ATC to the first waypoint of your ENR (enroute) segment. I've just done an IFR-only tour around Europe and the eastern Mediterranean in the TBM (below) and I just selected the next waypoint after the MANSEQ and activated Direct To.

I found a similar issue on the official forums, this one was caused by an errant keyboard profile: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/right-alt-click-panel-pop-out-no-longer-works/512392

In the General Options\Accessibility\User Interface menu, switch INSTRUMENT NAME TOOLTIPS to Off and don't forget to click Save at the bottom left of the screen!

You're 100% right Bud, the more info you can put into the FMC, the more you'll get out of it. Any field which can be filled in, you should try to fill in. A large part of the FMC's function is as a weighing scales, basically, and this data tells the autopilot how to fly the plane to use the minimum amount of fuel at all stages of the flight.