Actually, after leaving it to sit for 15 or 20 minutes, it eventually popped up a windows firewall dialog. After turning that on, I made it to the screen showing devil’s tower, where it’s also sitting there not moving forward. Other people are having this issue also:
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/game-not-loading-first-menu/337953/3
I’m going to try the cache delete that’s being called out to see if it helps. As mentioned above I don’t have any mods in my community folder. I’ll report back how it goes.
Thanks,
Scott