They told you not to press V in the patch notes! If you want to use the VFR map, you have to open it at the beginning of the flight. This will not be permanent behaviour as it is on the known issues list.
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I can’t speak for contractors, but if I’m a video game publisher, and I have a studio working on a game with my name on it, and we’re already in a bit of hot water, and they’re about to release an update, but they found a rather blatant issue with that update that’s going to require some extra time to fix… I give them that extra time. Because I understand that the majority of customers are far more appreciative of a good update than they are of us hitting a specific release date.
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Hey people. Easy fix. Just set the Option to have that map window open automatically when you start. Don’t have to remember after that.
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See:
And then look at these other words that are only here to meet the 10-character minimum for a post because apparently quotes don’t count.
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Its worse than it is worded in their known issues. If you open the VFR map during flight, it will CTD.
So their wording really shoudl be “if you intend to use the VFR map, you have to open it on the ground and not close it”
And I disagree about holding the release up, because it appears they fixed a very important bug for IFR.
But, they broke VFR in the process. SMH
Guys, just don’t open up the VRF Map throughout the whole time you’re flying, I’ll test this later when I get home.
I wonder if this is related to memory constraints and leaks, because as hard as I tried, I was not able to make the sim CTD with toggling the VFR map, I have around 64GBs of DDR4 memory.
If only it were that easy, I set it to open when the flight loads, opened and closed it a couple times, and sure enough 5 minutes into the flight you go to open it and it crashes the sim.
Yes, this needs a hotfix ASAP. Just had a vmap CTD.
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No excuse for this to make it into a production build. Needs to be fixed in a hotfix but knowing the history that won’t happen.
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It even CTD when you press V on an exterior view. Quicker than exiting the game normally though 
I hope there is a small hot fix for this pretty quickly. Rather bizarre that it was released with this as a known bug, as its hardly a small one. Press button…CTD.
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Weird, I am trying to make the game crash by opening VFR map. Granted I have it bound to other button than V, but it never crashed.
I know this will sound stupid but… Try remapping key maybe?
I created a flight plan, flew until after the first turn, hit V and CTD.
I restarted FS2020, started up Little Nav Map, which I normally have running on a second monitor, and flew the same flight plan. After the first turn I hit V and the VFR map popped right up. I toggled it intermittently during the flight and it always worked. If LNM is running, the VFR map seems to have no trouble. I know this isn’t a fix for everyone, but it will work well for me until a fix comes from ASOBO since I like to have LNM running anyway.
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just got hit with this CTD when attempting to open the VFR map. had it open when i first started, but i open and close it alot. it decided to CTD while i was in drone view when attempting to open the VFR map, despite me doing it a bunch of times during that same flight and not crashing, very odd.
guess the game doesn’t like that anymore.
was enjoying that flight too, and only had 2 CTD’s previously with almost 200 hours of flight time, both were at that Iceland airport that was bugged in release.
i suppose i can use the one in the cockpit for now.
Sorry this is not the solution. I always remove all addons after an update, and I still get the VFR map CTD. The only mod I have installed now is the Robin Dauphin. I think the CTD is just random, so some may have thought removing the Highonsnow mod fixed it.
Hmmmm maybe that’s why I can’t fly? Does this mean that I NEED to open up the VFR map as soon as possible after startup??? Crazy!! I keep getting CTD over and over!! Can’t fly at all
I can’t believe some random folk at MSFT or Asobo actually typed that known issue with a straight face.
I hadn’t had any crashes until this patch. This is beyond ridiculous.
Was it really that hard to hold back on that patch for a couple more days? Is it MSFT pressuring you Asobo? We need to talk.
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I just keep the VFR map minimized in top right of screen, it comes up automatically each flight. Its a little performance hit, but id rather lose some frames than crash.
Its ok, I still love you Asobo 
This has to be one of the worst issues in this game - its principally kak programming to release a patch with a simple fundamental flaw. I’ve tried everything to make it work. I simply don’t touch the map now.