I too went through similar experiences. Turned out it was the connector wasn't making good contact when seated in the radio. I have to put tension on it to get it to work. Might be my radio, might be the adapter, don't know. I gave the wire a tug, wrapped it around the bottom of the radio, up the front, around the antenna a couple times and it works fine . As far as the comparison between G2 and AFP, I bought it expecting phenominal graphics, and ultra realistic flight performance. The graphics are so so. Some of the G2 fields have way more eye candy, and the plane details are about the same, so G2 gets the nod on graphics imho. The flight performance? Great, much better than G2, but beating G2 isn't all that hard. The Dave Brown sim is probably better than G2 in terms of airplane flight physics. In AFP you can do blenders, flat spins, waterfalls, hover, torque roll, etc. I think it's still too easy though. It gets you much closer to the real thing, but it's still not like going to the field (maybe it's my airplanes? yea, that's it, I need new and better flying planes! ). As far as the rest of it? There isn't much else. The detailed help in G2 is non-existent in AFP. Flight recording, which is very well done in G2, is archaic in AFP. No sound on playback, very rudimentary controls. You can put Mp3's in a folder in AFP, and have them play while flying, but the decoder is so bad that it's not worth using (I use musicmatch jukebox in the brackground, much better, and this works for G2 as well). I miss the on line flying in G2. Makes "sim work" less boring, and you can compare your skills to others, and there are some really good fliers out there you can chat with and pick pointers up from. The gadgets in G2 are also much better. Love that you can bring up a radio display, slow a manuever down and watch what you did right/wrong with the sticks. My only other complaint with AFP? The framerate varies a lot. I'm not sure if this is a OpenGL vs. DirectX thing, but I can go from 175 FPS+ down to under 30 on some scenery, which really effects how the plane flies/handles. It might be my system (GeForce 5700 ultra, AMD 1600 Thundebird, win98se) but in G2, there is much less framerate variation, and my system maintains a decent frame rate no matter how detailed I make the fields. Sounds like I'm knocking AFP, right? Well maybe to a certain extent. It's not as polished as G2 by any means, and having got use to all the features, I miss some of them. Having said that, I have yet to fire G2 up since getting AFP 4 days ago. I'm sure I will, but it will probably be just for the on line stuff in the future. The physics are much better in AFP. G2 has them beat on everything else. Is physics the most important thing, and does it justify dropping G2 and going out and buying AFP? IMHO it depends on how far your skills have advanced, and how far you want to take them (on a sim). G2 will get you through 90% of the skills you may aquire. Some will never want to 3D, and for them G2 is probably a better choice. For the 5 or 10% that the better physics may pay off for, AFP is the way to go. That's my .02, hope it doesn't offend anyone too much!