Thank you, JRoberts and Bart87 for your help, insight, and suggestions. I just don't get it. I've downloaded, deleted, downloaded again, updated, turned on betas, deleted, downloaded again....endless cycle. I just can't get back the Cessna over the mountains after start up. Crashes every time. I have an amazing, capable computer and ostensibly the same can be said of X-Plane. But I simply cannot use it. Sad. =(