Mark,

Many thanks for your investigations and I can concur the same behaviour with the speedbrakes governing the use of throttle to achieve arming, whilst on the ground. Whether or not this is a better reflection of real life I shall leave in the good hands of the development team, but I think I can live with this.

Finally got the chronometer and brake pressure gauges issue fixed, together with the (initial) absence of wing,nav and strobe lights. It would appear that, in my own experience, the sim needs to be left running for a while before the lights and gauges appear properly. Just a quirk, but I think I can live with it for what is a very good simulation.

Assuming that CS777 development has not now ceased, all I can say is that any future improvements and fixes will only make CS777 awesome and a very fit contender to the main competition.