OBIO here. I am still alive, doing okay. I have not touched anything to do with flight simming in nearly 8 years. I still have all of my installs stored on three HDs for safety, along with all of my paint kits and sound packages...but just have not done anything sim related. I am currently working 6 nights a week...have been for nearly 5 years....and thus have little time for fun. Which makes me wonder why I keep working the way I do instead of enjoying life more. The last time I fired up FS9, I could not get any plane to fly right...they all kept climbing even after tons of down trim. I think my joystick is wonky and needs replaced. Maybe this fall I will dust of my flying goggles and do a bit of flying after fishing season wraps up....not that I have had a lot of fishing time either. I am curious what FS9 will do now that I have given my 10 year old system $70 worth of upgrades...from 6 gig of RAM to 12 gig for $20 and from 768Meg video card to 2Gig video card for $50.