I’m such an idiot making statements like this. Never let the universe know you’re having a good time because it will always put that right. Very next flight, in the Fenix (as 90% of my flights have been for the last month), and my first CTD on PC somewhere over Croatia near Zagreb while I was just enjoying some nice scenery during climb at about FL200. Sigh. Still, compared to the horrors I used to get on the xbox I’ll count this one as rare.
Usually with a new Xbox purchase they provide a gamepass subscription free for it’s like $1 for 3 months. MSFS 2020 is free with gamepass but since you said you already bought it, you may want to check out other games with gamepass under the free trial for your family.
Send it back! Must be something wrong with it! 
Think you need that wooden PC that @Scet106 has. Sounds a lot more solid
That is so typical though. Hopefully first and last (but very unlikely).
Every cloud has a silver lining they say. I was so annoyed with the lost flight that I decided to install the dev tools and attack the hideous spike that’s annoyed me for the last 18 months at my local airport. Try landing YPAD 23 on ILS you can’t miss it on a clear day (it’s usually a clear day here in Adelaide).
Several hours of hacking away at it with a chisel while learning the tools and I’m very happy that it’s now gone. I have my first mod now. Something I never could do on xbox!
Thanks for the reply mate.
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If you are in the critical phase of your training:
- developing psychomotorical skills,
- judging the flare height,
- using the nose vs. horizon as attitude/speed reference,
- developing the seat of the pants fell of the airplane,
I would recommend focusing on training in real world.
Your brain may be confused by different dynamics in the real world and in the sim. Sim is also inducing too much dependency on the gauges - you fly visually only, your brain does not receive the movement/balance inputs so it must visually compensate which leads into development of unwanted habits.
I would recommend not mixing real world and sim flying in the same time of the year. If you will stop real world flying for the winter - then you can switch to the sim. It will allow you to stay current and developing other skills like VATSIM flying. On spring, with your instructor, in an hour or two you will unlearn the bad habits developed in the sim, but generally you will be more familiar with the aircraft, checklists, procedures.
If your budget is not very limited and you are interested mostly in VFR flying I would strongly recommend PC and VR - consider used Reverb G2 and at least 4070Ti GPU.