hi Guys, many thanks for taking the time to reply to my problem.My apologies for the delay in replying but just came back late last night from the Duxford May day Airshow – man its a long drive up that A1 back to Edinburgh! Anyway, all fired up with enthusiasm after watching Stephen Grey perform his usual polished display in the Bearcat I fired up the PC to try my hand with my own “display” in my Bearcat but this time I REALLY have a problem with fs9! I get the initial load up screen then it shuts down altogether! I did use a can of air to clean the heatsink fan etc, ran some other flight sim/racing sims with no problems so something must be wrong somewhere! Tomorrow I am going to rename my fs9 folders and re-install the sim then transfer over my saved folders etc hoping that will sort out my problem. Its amazing how cranky a man can get when he doesn`t get his flight sim fix!

Colin