Thanks for all the effort in helping me out, but after trying the instructions on removing it from the registry after deleting, still didnt help me..I followed the instructions to a "T" and reinstalled it, and  fired up FSX and still no landing gears. I have already submitted a trouble ticket to Captain Sim and no reply, as of yet...the only direction im getting right now is from the community forum (from you)...I hope Captain Sim dont try and offer me a refund, because I would rather have this resolved..to me (IMO) this is the best bird I have ever purchased from them...this bird has NO impact on the frames whatsoever...Im praying that someone, or somebody is out there reading this and has a suggestion on how to maybe resolve this...and yes, all of my drivers are up to date... I have 12gb of memory, about 300gb ssd drives in raid 0, video card is nvidia gtx 290 1.8gb, operating system is: windows ultimate 7 64bit...I have purchased from Captain Sim with these specs in the past and no problems whatsoever, so im lost right now :'(....please help, Country4life