Instead of posting yet another thread, I'll just respond here

Thanks for all the hard work everybody at HTC. I flew about 8 hours tonight, and I enjoyed the hell out of the new version. New planes, harder icon settins and the disappearing icons (when plane is outta sight), the evil Ostwin...a whole new ball game and a great challenge! All this new toejam, and my frame rate has even jumped by a few points!
Now I just gotta figure out how to get my successful deflection shots now without the big red banner to lead the way!

First round is on me at the con!
SOB
...8 hours & I haven't even looked at combat trim or padlock yet!