Same problem if no airports or addon planes in CF.
Removed EVERYTHING from CF and pc hard crashed twice on loading MSFS.
Suspect an external addon like FSUIPC//simbridge/better bravo lights is expecting something in CF.
Put my essentials back as they have been stable commercial addons for 6 months.
It’s something to do with my msfs build I am sure, I have most content installed but have removed some default hand made airports that conflicted with major addons.
It suddenly started this bug a month ago. After that outtage everyone had in 2020 a few days after 2024 was released. There was a small 87mb update i think and then it started.