May this your final flight land you into the hands of eternal peace.   HIGH FLIGHT - John McGee Jr. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds,-and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of-wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air.... Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark nor ever eagle flew- And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Anderson  

Sorry to hear that.  He was one of the best fighter pilots in WWII.  

Good points, what do you think about X-plane, I hear they are getting ai traffic update

I had this issue with airport mods, once deleted it fixed. 

Of course you can run both programs on your PC, as they are two separate & different programs. You can also have P3D installed as well. I have p3Dv4.5 & v5, with no issues at all, as they are separate programs.   Enjoy!

I'm sticking to my P3Dv4.5, which I prefer to v5, as the colors, for me, in v4.5 are more realistic.  Moving to FS2024? No, for various reasons, the main one being the amount of space these sims take in storage, the amount pf PC power needed, & the lack of my preferred types of aircraft. My preference is immersion, above realism.

Thanks guys for your reactions. However, I could not find the simple "turn on/off crash detection" anywhere. What I did find was "Ignore crash damage" and that has been ticked as being "on" for as long as I've been using FS9. I had followed the "settings/realism" path from the FS9 openings screen.   I then dis-assembled the (culprit) BGL concerned but found that all the called for textures were present and were looking completely normal as mipped DXT1s, without any of them being blank.   However, after further testing I found purely by chance that the photographic satellite airfield surface itself needed a flatten, which was quickly made and put in place. Then came the next surprise, in that suddenly a forrest which I had positioned very long ago behind the terminal and via the EZ object placement program, was now floating high in the sky, most probably on top of some kind of invisible elevation spike or mountain ??? A further flatten solved this new problem ....... and my collision problem had now even disappeared as well !!   Could such a seemingly "hard" but invisible mountain have been the cause of my collision problem because it certainly seems that way. All this while I've always believed that scenery objects were primarily "soft" and that has always included mountains. Purely for inquisitiveness reasons I will re-store the "collision" situation tomorrow and will then try to fly through the invisible mountain ........ or of cause crash into it.   Where this "collision mountain" had in fact come from and when remains a mystery.     jgf,   AI planes getting in your way while you are approaching an airport yourself can be avoided by using a program called "AI Smooth", which I've been using successfully for years. Works great.   Regards   Hans

I read somewhere or was told (don't remember who) that Trackir5 will not work on cptrs using Windows 10.  It that true?       I used an earlier version of Trackir some years ago with FS9 on Windows 7 (or an earlier version MS O.S.) without any problems, and would like to purchase a new package. But my computers now run on Windows 10.  The remark that the newer version of Trackir doesn't run FS9 or FSX on Windows 10 machines has me concerned.  Before laying out the money I would like to know if that is true or not.   Anyone able to verify that rumor?   😟 JonB

Back in Tokyo, I think you recognized it. 😄 Supply mission and landing on an aircraft carrier.   https://store.flightsim.com/pizzagallich-_bymfg_97-4-1.html  

Ctrl+F1, Ctrl+F2 and so on will zoom in on panels and gauges, F will return you to the normal cockpit view.

Its the one plane on my checklist i couldnt find, well alongside the milviz f15E... i looked everywhere and i mean everywhere.    Dc designs is not a bad runner up, only nitpick is the nav computer on the dc designs is semi functional. But iris and milviz were. Cut above.   i will say i think its license issue, because both milviz and iris put everyone of their planes for freeware except the ones the F15E (and t38 for fsx). If i had it honestly i'd just go peer2peer with you. 

It should, from what I have read.   Jorgen

I made the jump from FSX (and also have FSX:SE) to P3D v. 4. Since then I have made the jump to v. 5 and v. 6, but v. is still my favorite.   I am not at all interested in an arcade game like MSFS 2020, especially when it requires a full-time online connection. I had it on my system for about 30 minutes, and was so deeply disappointed that I deleted it and requested a refund (which I got).   So, guess what? I don't care one flying iota about 2024, given Microsoft's track record. P3D is a real, professional flight simulator that does what I want, not what Microsoft thinks I should want.   Jorgen