Landing Challenge - Week 5/5 - HOTAS Warthog Throttle - App Freeze

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: Landing Challenge week 5/5 (27th May 2026 - Broome) all peripherals become unresponsive a few seconds after connecting my Warthog HOTAS Throttle!

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)? Every time!

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

  1. Start Sim,

  2. Enter Challenge League,

  3. Start Landing Challenge “Broome”,

  4. Connect Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS throttle,

  5. PC becomes unresponsive via any peripheral.

  6. Even when doing the same Landing Challenge via the Activities Menu, the pc becomes unresponsive when I connect my Thrustmaster HOTAS throttle. The only way to get control of my PC is to gain access to the Task Manager using Control+Alt+Delete and to then ending MSFS 2024.

[PC ONLY] FAULT BUCKET ID

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YOUR SETTINGS

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What peripherals are you using, if relevant: Not dependent on a single or multiple peripherals, but the freeze always happens whenever I connect my Warthog HOTAS throttle (on its own or with other peripherals). At which point my PC freezes a few seconds later and specifically only when attempting the same landing challenge - “Broome”.

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it? No

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? RTX 5090

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share? ASUS ROG Strix X670E-E, AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 64Gb Crucial Pro DDR5.

MEDIA

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