It can be very accurate! Find out where the ISS flies over a location at night, go there at the same time and look up, it might take a few mins but you will be VERY SURPRISED what you see. Turn all your lights off first of course.

Just stand outside at night and press the time advance or retreat key and watch the sky.

The night sky in X-Plane resembles real sky at all? If yet to what level? Are there true major constelations? Do they rise and set?

Dream on, my friend. In the Vs 9 run, 9.1 > 9.2 < 9.3 in usability (imho) so always have a back up plan. 10.05 is already quite amazing with a few known bugs and unknown docs. Just keep rendering options below crash level, and when or if you push a setting beyond the boundary, open preferences and set it back a step.

alright, but sooner the better for a stable, rendering fun, non crashing sim.

Beta 10.10 when all beta bugs are fixed and we cut a build on compilers. 10.10 is driven by quality milestone, not a date.

Months are not an answer to priority. A priority doens’t give a feature a release timeframe – rather it decides whether resources go to that feature or a competing feature.

64-bit is a very high priority. It will be _the_ driving feature of 10.20 I think.

Don’t ask for any more dates – I am not going to give any future date predictions to you.

seeing that in an earlier post Ben you said Mac users ( in regard to performance and crashes) will need 64 bit, how much of a priority is it to get 64bit pushed out? Sept October?

Seeing stars thru the fog and below the ground !

Hope you’ll be able to fix it soon 😉