After running P3Dv5 for two days, my initial impression stated at Post 564 continue to be valid.  Also true is my earlier comment saying that “there’s really no need to rush for it.”

If I remember correctly, every time when P3D had a major update (1.xx, 2.xx, 3.xx, 4.xx), the very first version always full of issues.  This latest version 5.0 is of no exception.

Followings are a couple of photos comparing the Sion Airport (LSGS) and Bowermen Airport (KHQM) between version 4.5 and 5.0.

Although the older version has scenery addons included, one should easily tell the “naked” P3Dv5 is way too incorrect in the areas.

As we know that military is an important group of Lockheed Martin’s user target in the US.  Hope that the few miss-bombings in the past weren’t due to these kind of inaccuracy in training.  Just joking.

In addition, although the overall performance of the new version brings some improvements, there are new bugs to be fixed.  For example, the simulator is prone to crash to desktop or frozen when ATC window is calling up (via a button on the Yoke) too quickly.  This is particularly possible when the new version is running in ViewGroup mode.

By the way, there were a few times I couldn’t shut down the program at all.  I needed to end it via Task Manager.

There are many more bugs reported on Prepar3D’s support forum.

Some friends asked me why I then purchased it so soon if I had foreseen there would be bugs in the first place.

If not, I wouldn’t be here to tell you not to rush for it.