Asobo, if you’re going to do mandatory updates at least have the decency to tell us that’s what you’re doing and how big the download’s going to be. Don’t leave us staring at a spinny circle and a frankly disingenuous ‘Checking for updates’ message. :loudspeaker: For anyone who wants to contribut…

Thank you for your patience as we have been investigating the ‘Checking for Updates’ issue occurring for some users. We have now identified the root cause and are working towards a long-term solution to prevent this from happening in the future. We believe the issue is now mitigated for almost all c…

I don’t consider having no online services or content manager a win.

Painful. I can confirm the following workaround is getting me into the sim when no other workaround does: when the “checking for updates” screen comes up, turn off your wifi or internet connection until it complains that it can’t reach the servers. Then turn it right back on and when the screen li…

I had the same issue, thought that maybe the airac cycle update wasn’t coming in due to Navigraph being installed with the same updated airac cycle. Restarted after removing Navigraph and the update came through. After installing Microsoft’s airac the game started again normally.

Encountering this issue a few times in the last couple days, now today it’s especially bad. Followed all of Microsoft’s steps and when I finally got past it after Alt + F4 several times, the massive re-download was at a snail pace. I took someone above’s suggest and logged out of Xbox app, and re-l…

Doing all that just proves they successfully gaslit people into thinking its a local issue. When its NOT. Its a them issue and their servers have been acting up a lot recently. I got hit with the checking for updates screen getting stuck about 6 tines in the past week and have to sit there for nearl…

im betting this has to do with load on the servers.. because it got really bad in the last two hours.. which is “sim time hour” in a number of big urban centers that are in the same time zone

a mandatory AIRAC update at DSL speeds…yay

New development…I posted a while ago that I was having this problem and said I was just going to let it run to see what would happen. Eventually, it went to the installation manager and presented a sim update. Update complete and the sim is running! Go figure!